The Big ACL Opening

[Rahul Sundaram]

David Timms wrote:
> Casey Dahlin wrote:
>> So, as most of you have probably heard, we are now on a two-tiered 
>> access system for CVS. The final change which we will be making is the 
>> mass ACL open.
>>
>> What will happen is all packages which are now set to be private, 
>> accessible by their maintainers and a few specific individuals only, 
>> will be opened up to all überpackager members. Members of überpackager 
>> represent a filtered minority of CVS comitters, but membership is easy 
>> to come by for anyone that asks.
> 
> As written here, this sounds risky.
> Is it more like:
> membership is easy to come by for existing packagers with:
> - a good track record
> - minimum number of existing packages
> - some other qualifier ?

Yes, uberpackagers have these kind of pre-conditions.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-August/msg00007.html

Rahul