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[Josh Kearney <josh@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>

Could make the default branch on github 'develop' so all Pull Requests would
default to there, and let Hubcap/RoundAbout be the gatekeeper of master?