Granting write access to all DDs to our git area

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Felipe Sateler (2015-04-13 20:32:57)
> On 13 April 2015 at 13:53, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> Quoting Felipe Sateler (2015-04-13 15:07:37)
>>> On 13 April 2015 at 04:30, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:
>>>> Am Freitag, den 10.04.2015, 13:03 -0300 schrieb Felipe Sateler:
>>>>> I think it would be good: should someone do an NMU or a backport 
>>>>> of a team package, they can commit their contributions directly to 
>>>>> git (we could possibly recommend to a separate branch).
>>>>
>>>> I think we should grant all DDs write access to the repository. 
>>>> After all, we trust them to do NMUs and security uploads, why 
>>>> wouldn't we trust them to commit reasonable changes to the repo?
>>>
>>> That is my reasoning as well.
>>>
>>> However I just realized the web interface does not allow granting 
>>> the Debian group write access to the repos. I tried manually but 
>>> that can only be done on repositories one owns (and only on objects 
>>> on that repository one owns!). So the alioth admin team would have 
>>> to be asked to do this for us. I can do the asking.
>>
>> Not sure what you tried.  Here's how I would do it:
>>
>> 1) Activate the Debian member role.
>>
>> 1a) wait about 10 seconds, then cancel the crappy broken PHP and load 
>> the admin page againg - and if 1) didn't succeed then try again 
>> giving a little more time
>
> Yes, I activated the role.
>
>>
>> 2) in settings for the Debian member role, set it to visible and 
>> grant write access
>
> And here is where the page hangs. It stores the setting as visible, 
> but there is no place to set write access. It probably is done on the 
> next page but I cannot access it.

There is no next page.  Sorry - I remembered wrong: the Debian role 
implicitly enables write access, there is no option for that.

All DDs should have write access now that the role is added!

Do you say (in your earlier post) that it does not actually work, or 
simply that it does not look like it works from web UI POV?

 - Jonas

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