Re: CVS Account Request

At 01:24 16/11/2000, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

But how do we do that? By reducing the number of commits? That doesn't sound like the right answer to me.

No, by making it a bit more difficult for an infiltrator to get in, and if he does, reduce the amount of damage he can do. As Jason said, people who actually want to work on PHP can live easily with the need to send patches for a couple of weeks, and accept CVS write access either. I think that they would actually think it's a good practice, and the way an organized project should be working in anyway (again, see what Jason said). I also think that someone who receives CVS access to develop a module for FooSQL, won't find it insulting or weird if he only got access to the ext/foosql directory on the repository.

That's not entirely true. Yes, doc people and lately pear people have had semi-automatic cvs accounts created. I have had dozens of exchanges with people wanting to contribute to the codebase before setting up the cvs account. But we could formalize this and write it down somewhere.

Well, a part of that could be that none of us ever saw these exchanges, or even knew of their existence. It seemed that sometimes, from the time requests showed up on group@ and till the time you added people to the CVS writers, it took less than a day... At any rate, if that's how things work anyway, it may be a good idea to formalize it as you said, or perhaps more these discussions over to php-dev as well. It can end up being useful. Zeev Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> CTO, Zend Technologies Ltd. http://www.zend.com/