Re: CVS ACL's

[Muhammad Alkarouri <malkarouri at yahoo dot co dot uk>]

On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 13:37, Mohammed Elzubeir wrote:
> Salam,
> 
> I have just implemented ACL (Access Control Lists) for our CVS repository.
> What this means is that not everyone with write access will be able to write
> to just about any part of the repository.

Good step.

> "So why all of this all of a sudden?" -- not really all of a sudden. There were
> incidents in the past where people didn't appreciate others stepping into
> their "territory". There were also incidents where people committed to 
> sensitive modules like CVSROOT/ (to fix things, etc. -- all with good
> intentions -- there was never a case of malice). Consider this to be
> 'preventive medicine' ;)

While I never had this problem, this is definitely the Right Thing (TM).
It also covers us from mistakes, especially newbies.

> 
> From your friendly CVS Administrator.
> 

Keep up the good work:)

Salam,
Muhammad Alkarouri