Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:12:11 -0700
From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>,
	Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Git access?
Message-ID: <20080610221211.GG15591@fetter.org>
References: <20080605155258.GF21648@fetter.org>
	<200806061354.43916.peter_e@gmx.net>
	<20080610191013.GC15591@fetter.org> <484ED29B.5070706@hagander.net>
	<20080610220032.GF15591@fetter.org>
	<1213135511.17340.172.camel@jd-laptop>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <1213135511.17340.172.camel@jd-laptop>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01)

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 03:05:11PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 15:00 -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 09:14:35PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > > > It's an interesting plan, but it's one that's preventing people
> > > > from using the service.  How about shelving that plan for the
> > > > moment and handing out access as needed to developers? :)
> > > 
> > > Please don't. Handing more access out in an uncontrolled way will
> > > give us a lot more work cleaning things up later.
> > 
> > With respect, I must disagree.  This resource is incredibly easy to
> > maintain--and practically useless--because nobody can get on there.
> 
> I think the point is, we don't want to give shell accounts out. Which is
> why we are waiting. That is something I can get behind. We don't need to
> be handing out yet more shell accounts.

Why not?  They can be revoked any time. 

Meanwhile, people's inability to use them is costing us.  People are
hosting projects outside our system, not because they don't like our
system, but because they can't get a workable SCM from pgfoundry or
anywhere else inside our system.

Cheers,
David.
-- 
David Fetter <david@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/
Phone: +1 415 235 3778  AIM: dfetter666  Yahoo!: dfetter
Skype: davidfetter      XMPP: david.fetter@gmail.com

Remember to vote!
Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate