[SAC] Download maintainers group

[Frank Warmerdam]

Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>>
>> I think it would be reasonable to create dedicated group of users who
>> have access to maintain /osgeo/download content. Currently, it's a bit
>> messed and some project members who want to maintain their downloads
>> have to use sudo or ask someone who can do it or fix
>> permissions for them. So, IMO it's reasonable to set things in order 
>> here.
>>
>> My suggestion is to create a group and assign one person from each OSGeo
>> project to this group. Then /osgeo/download should be owned by root and
>>  writable by the 'download' group. Read-only others.
>>
> 
> Sounds like a good idea to me. Perhaps we could leave the flexibility of 
> having more than one person per project in the downloads group (to act 
> as backup if the main person is not available), but we should definitely 
> not open that up to too many people either.

Folks,

Why not create a group per project if we want to manage this with local
(rather than ldap based) groups?

I'm not sure why we didn't do this sooner, other than we had a hope of
a more LDAP based approach.

Best regards,
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