Re: [PHP-DEV] CVS Account Request From: Sterling Hughes (Sterling.Hughes <email protected>)
Date: 11/15/00

At 10:36 PM 11/15/2000 +0200, Zeev Suraski wrote:
>Why do you need CVS access then?

Rasmus and Zeev: I'm writing this while reading your last message ;)

PHP documentation, PHP Website, Closing Bugs and  <email protected> forwarding (I
know there are one or two in their, some of these people have been in their
half a year or more and haven't contributed a thing :-), PEAR and finally
php-faq modifications all require cvs access to the main repository (php4).

PEAR and Bug issues are currently should be abstracted, when Zak and I get
re-write the bugs db, we'll probably abstract that to something separate
(and still give cvs commiters access to the bugs db :). Also pear will
probably be abstracted from the cvs repository as well (as I believe cvs
is/was a temporary solution.)

As Zeev said we should divide the cvs repositories: Websites, Documentation
and Code.

Also I think we should be a little more careful of who we give cvs access
to on the code root. Right now I could probably get a fake e-mail and such
from yahoo and obtain a nice ol' cvs account, from which I could then (if I
was bad) commit some harmful code, which since it would not be a part of
standard/ or main/ would not be given due attention (especially if it was a
nice harmful one line bit) and then hurt users who use it. Now while one
of the reasons many people contribute to PHP is because it is so easy to
get involved with the development, really most of the commits are only made
by a handful of people (PHP Group and a 10-20 others, if even). Most of
the users could simply send patches. Patches make sure the code is qa'ed,
and then, if the patches are approved (by a committer) then they would be
committed, after a while if the user is someone who is constantly sending
(good) patches he would then obtain a cvs account to commit to the code
repository (documentation could be given less security).

-Sterling 

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