[eclipse-dev] Eclipse Unix groups

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I am investigating consolidating the
Unix permission groups used by the Eclipse project's CVS repository. The
goal is to conform to the Eclipse foundation's standard ACL conventions
and official development process, and to avoid unnecessarily fine-grained
permissions. As a point of reference, we currently have about 75 active
ACL's used by the Eclipse project, with less than 75 active committers.
This causes headaches for the committers, PMC, and Foundation staff whenever
changes are needed to committer permissions. Some projects at Eclipse only
have a single Unix group for the entire project, but I'm trying to find
a middle ground where everyone is comfortable with the set of committers
who can modify their component, but each component has enough active committers
that it can operate successfully. Can committers, and particularly component/sub-project
leads, take a quick look at the proposed new structure and let me know
what you think:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse/PMC/Unix_Groups

Thanks,
John