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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Kevin L. Mitchell
<kevin.mitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 11:24 -0400, Jay Pipes wrote:
>> In addition, this doesn't prevent anyone on the core team from doing a
>> straight close and merge of the pull request into trunk, potentially
>> breaking trunk.
>
> So far as I know, there's no requirement that someone have merge
> authority on a project in order to comment on pull requests.  Do cores
> have direct access to the openstack repos right now, and if they do,
> what's to stop them from merging pull requests into trunk?

No. Gerrit and Jenkins own the canonical repos, and that's the whole point.

>  I think
> cores are smart enough to follow the procedures laid down, and if they
> can't, well, they need to not be cores.

I repeat my previous statement about humans being poor gatekeepers
compared to automated enforceable policies.

-jay