Ability for maintainers to update own ports

Alex Kiesel alex.kiesel at document-root.de
Tue Nov 11 15:14:44 PST 2003


On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 22:40, Tim Aslat wrote:
> In the immortal words of Sam Lawrance <boris at brooknet.com.au>...
> > Pick it to bits, if there are solutions I want to find them :)
> 
> The biggest problem I can see is that CVS is our biggest limitation. 
> Surely it wouldn't be too hard to add functionality into CVS which would
> allow per directory r/w permissions on some kind of
> user/group based authentication.

Directory based permissions are supported in CVS through the
commitinfo-script. The PHP-Group, for examples, implemented a karma
system for their source tree, and FreeBSD utilizes a similar system
IIRC.

- Alex



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