[sakai2-tcc] Subversion ACL Cleanup [updated]

Maurer, Christopher Wayne chmaurer at iupui.edu
Tue Jun 4 06:19:34 PDT 2013


I think Matt uses the cle-release-team one when he releases stuff, so you
may want to keep that one.  But, confirming with him would be best.

Chris

On 6/3/13 10:55 PM, "Beth Kirschner" <bkirschn at umich.edu> wrote:

>Regarding question #3 - I just ran into Mike Osterman - he is alive and
>well and sees no need for his membership in the msub-admins group (it was
>an idea that never got acted on), and he's all in favor of cleanup. So
>I'd like to move forward with removing that group as well.
>
>- Beth
>
>On Jun 3, 2013, at 6:11 PM, Beth Kirschner <bkirschn at umich.edu> wrote:
>
>> As an experiment during some idle hours today, I took stab at cleaning
>>up the ACL lists for Subversion, with the goal to make them easier to
>>maintain and understand. I haven't yet "released" the changes, but if
>>you're an svn-admin, you can ssh into source.sakaiproject.org and see
>>the changes in the svn-acl-policy.new file.
>> 
>> I'd like to "release" these changes following discussion at Thursday's
>>TCC meeting at the conference, so if you're not at the conference and
>>have any questions or concerns, please let me know.
>> 
>> Here's what I did:
>> 
>> 1) Create one @sak-branches group -- authorization for all SAK branches
>>is now consolidated into this one group. This was the only real
>>authorization change.
>> 
>> 2) Combine maint-team and svn-admins groups, into one svn-admins group,
>>since maint-team was only used as a sub-group of svn-admins. svn-admins
>>have access to everything. Removed
>>'cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org' from svn-admins group, since
>>this isn't a valid svn user. This was a consolidation of groups and
>>there is no change in authorization.
>> 
>> 3) I'd like to remove the msub-admins group, since it seems redundant.
>>This group has access to all msub repos, and the membership is a sub-set
>>of svn-admins, with the exception of ostermmg at whitman.edu (Mike
>>Osterman). Does anyone know if he is still active in the community? If
>>not, I'll remove the group, since svn-admins have access to everything,
>>including msub repos.
>> 
>> 4) I'd like to remove the following obsolete definitions (I think they
>>pre-date msub). These directories do not exist in
>>https://source.sakaproject.org/svn/ - can anyone think of any reason to
>>_not_ remove them?
>> 
>> ## DELETE (start) - directories no longer exist
>> [/asu]
>> @svn-admins = rw
>> joshua.ryan at asu.edu = rw
>> * = r
>> 
>> [/bspace]
>> @svn-admins = rw
>> @bspace = rw
>> * = r
>> 
>> [/bspace/spring2-work]
>> @svn-admins = rw
>> @bspace = rw
>> @bspace-spring2-work = rw
>> * = r
>> 
>> [/bspace/portal/sakai_2-5-x]
>> @svn-admins = rw
>> @bspace = rw
>> @bspace-portal = rw
>> * = r
>> 
>> [/ctools]
>> @svn-admins = rw
>> @ctools = rw
>> * = r
>> 
>> [/unicon]
>> @svn-admins = rw
>> @unicon = rw
>> * = r
>> 
>> [/uct]
>> @svn-admins = rw
>> @uct = rw
>> * = r
>> ## DELETE (end) - directories no longer exist
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> - Beth
>> 
>> 
>



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