[fdo-internals] PSC: Interesting Conundrum

[Paul Ramsey]

I'm with Frank. Geotools and udig share the same repositories, we have 
different people with commit privs, and we have *never* had a problem 
with people committing where they shouldn't.  Even though SVN allows us 
to lock up the different trees with ACLs, we have never bothered.

Paul

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Robert Fortin wrote:
>> All in favor of option 1. Providers are always targeting a specific
>> version of FDO so it make sence that they are generally branched with
>> FDO.  Splitting the reporitories has resulted in additional work when
>> creating branch plus issues around common component used across
>> providers.
> 
> Folks,
> 
> I am also in favor of merging the repositories.  Generally speaking I don't
> think mechanical means are the right way to restrict people to operating on
> limited parts of the code.  If we don't trust someone enough to obey
> procedures on what parts of the code base they can modify, then we 
> shouldn't
> be giving them commit access.
> 
> Best regards,