about new devs (sorta)

[Jaime Buffery]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 01:24:21PM +0100, Auke Kok wrote:
> 
> Just a technical note on how feasible this is:
> 
> Jaime Buffery wrote:
> 
> >	* No real acct on espresso
> > 
> >
> umm yes we can do that of course
> 
> >	* Would have forwarded mail, with a @lunar-linux.org or 
> >	maintainer.lunar-linux.org or st alike.
> > 
> >
> virtual users... possible but would impose some technical problems 
> (never setup virtual users)
> 
> >	* Commit priviledges cut down to the modules(s) {,s}he maintains.
> > 
> >
> oops, no can't do. cvs needs proper access thus a valid user. Perhaps a 
> fake shell works but a full account would be required.
> 
> ( alternatives: chroot? pserver? don't want to go that way... )
What if the maintainers have their own group. What if they share home, 
/home/maintainer/, but no shell or limited one (unable to login)? Let's suppose 
a new maintainer called "luser". luser's modules would have luser.maintainer and 
"rw- r-- ---" perms, or st alike, where devs can modify, but not other 
maintainers. Would that be a solution? Maintainers have cvs access limited only 
to their modules, though they can maybe see the rest. Would that be 
better/feasable and transparent to cvs? 
 
> sofar
nestu ;)