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Date:      Wed, 12 Nov 2003 00:14:37 +0100
From:      Alex Kiesel <alex.kiesel@document-root.de>
To:        Tim Aslat <tim@spyderweb.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ability for maintainers to update own ports
Message-ID:  <1068592477.528.1.camel@boost.home.ahk>
In-Reply-To: <20031112081042.513ebdc5.tim@spyderweb.com.au>
References:  <1068458390.38101.19.camel@dirk.no.domain> <20031112081042.513ebdc5.tim@spyderweb.com.au>

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On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 22:40, Tim Aslat wrote:
> In the immortal words of Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au>...
> > Pick it to bits, if there are solutions I want to find them :)
> 
> The biggest problem I can see is that CVS is our biggest limitation. 
> Surely it wouldn't be too hard to add functionality into CVS which would
> allow per directory r/w permissions on some kind of
> user/group based authentication.

Directory based permissions are supported in CVS through the
commitinfo-script. The PHP-Group, for examples, implemented a karma
system for their source tree, and FreeBSD utilizes a similar system
IIRC.

- Alex



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