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["Mario H. Burgos" <mario@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

+1 to Hannie and Patrick's comments.

-MarioB
 On Mar 7, 2013 10:12 AM, "Patrick Dickey" <pdickeybeta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Like the others, I don't think it would be prudent to restrict access.
> We can always recover previous revisions, and we also have people
> reviewing the submissions as they come in (in some fashion or another).
>
> The main recommendation that I have is to make sure you "pull" before
> you "push", that way you're working off of the latest revision (even
> though it shouldn't affect your specific work).
>
> Also at the end of the day, we do have the groups you suggested, in the
> form of the editors. They review the source, and either correct or push
> it back to the authors, if there's a problem.  I think that having a
> restricted group of committers would actually decrease efficiency, and
> would make it harder for us to publish alongside the actual releases.
> Because you would have a small group of people who would be responsible
> for going through each submission and pushing it to the branch.
>
> Just my .02 worth from the cheap seats, so to speak.
>
> Have a great day.:)
> Patrick.
>
> On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 14:06 +0530, Vibhav Pant wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I recently had a look at the lp:ubuntu-manual branch and noticed that
> > it is open for all to push too. This kind of mechanism can clearly
> > lead to the source being vandalized and improper code being sent into
> > the branch.
> > To prevent this, I thought if we could have a "Ubuntu Manual
> > Commiters" or "Ubuntu Manual Developers" who have pushing rights into
> > the Bazaar branch. Contributed code will then be accepted by easy
> > merge requests, by which we will get better quality work in to the
> > branch.
> >
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> >
> > Have a great day,
> > Vibhav
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