Re: PEARWEB BUG

On 10/4/05, Olivier Guilyardi <ojaiml@nerim.net> wrote: > Justin Patrin wrote: > > On 10/4/05, Andrew Nagy <andrew.nagy@villanova.edu> wrote: > > > >>I submitted a bug to the bug system reporting an issue with editting > >>maintainers. I want to upgrade a maintainers role from helper to > >>developer, will this allow them CVS access? This process does not work > >>currently on pearweb. Please let me know if I am doing something wrong, > >>of if I need to follow another procedure. > >> > > > > > > Did the website not allow you to upgrade someone's status or were you > > expecting this to give someone CVS access? CVS access is controlled > > manually because the PHP Group doesn't trust a web frontend (in the > > language they themselves have written) to update it. Some of the > > people in the PEAR Group finally got karma to give people karma, so > > e-mail them with what you want to happen in regards to CVS. > > The "someone" is actually me. I do already have CVS access for the package I'm > the lead of : XML_Indexing. I don't know if I can commit to Structures_DataGrid, > needs checking... Maybe there's nothing to do except a small change so that I > appear as a "developer" instead of a "helper" on Structures_DataGrid > homepage ? > No. As I said, the web page has nothing to do with CVS access (except insofar as people look at it before changing your karma). Karma granting is an entirely manual process carried out by those with the karma to grant karma (PHP and PEAR Groups). Yes, your role should be changed on PEARWeb as well, but it will not grant you CVS karma. -- Justin Patrin