[General] sandboxes or branches for interns/SoC students

[Mike Taylor]

I was already planning on setting up commit access restrictions for the 
other repositories - just didn't have any external drivers for a 
deadline.

sounds like I now do :)

Adding the same commit hooks to the other sandboxes will take a day to 
implement and test.


On May 25, 2006, at 2:25 PM, Ted Leung wrote:

> So the question has arisen as to the mechanics of having interns and 
> Summer of Code students work on the various code bases, and we wanted 
> to bring the discussion onto the lists
>
> The issue is that we want the student's work to be available in a 
> public place (that is version control) without granting unearned 
> commit privileges.  There are several options for trying to make this 
> happen, none of them ideal (at least in my opinion).
>
> The possible options are:
>
> 1. Give each person a private branch in the repository sections for 
> each product
>
> The problem with private branches is that we also grant commit 
> privileges to all of our repositories.  Also, it establishes the 
> precedent of giving non-committer private branches and keeping the 
> history of those branches in the version control repository.
>
> 2. Give each person a sandbox in 
> <http://svn.osafoundation.org/sandbox/>
>
> The sandboxes have limited access control, which is implemented via a 
> pre-commit hook.   Unfortunately, granting commit access to a sandbox 
> also grant commit access to all the other projects, because the main 
> project repositories do not have a pre-commit hook.
>
> 3. Have new folks use svk <svk.elixus.org/>, which provides a 
> distributed version control system on top of subversion
>
> The problem with using svk is the need to learn a new toolset and way 
> of working.
>
>
> My personal opinion is that implementing access control on the 
> repositories via pre-commit hooks is something that we should do 
> anyway and that would solve the problem in the short term.
>
> Ted
>
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