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I think the repo owner needs to get updated, I still see a lot of Kim in the repo. AFAIK it is either John or Paul. platform eclipse.platform.common.git Kim Moir 2 weeks eclipse.platform.debug.git Kim Moir 6 days eclipse.platform.git Kim Moir 4 hours eclipse.platform.news.git Eclipse Platform, JDT, PDE and Orion N&N files John Arthorne 11 days eclipse.platform.releng.aggregator.git Paul Webster 9 hours eclipse.platform.releng.basebuilder.git David Williams 9 months eclipse.platform.releng.buildtools.git David Williams 5 weeks eclipse.platform.releng.eclipsebuilder.git Paul Webster 4 months eclipse.platform.releng.git Kim Moir 7 hours eclipse.platform.releng.maps.git Eclipse Releng map files Kim Moir 4 months eclipse.platform.resources.git Kim Moir 3 weeks eclipse.platform.runtime.git Kim Moir 14 days eclipse.platform.swt.binaries.git Kim Moir 37 hours eclipse.platform.swt.git Kim Moir 6 days eclipse.platform.team.git Kim Moir 8 hours eclipse.platform.text.git Eclipse Platform Text Kim Moir 13 days eclipse.platform.ua.git Kim Moir 3 weeks eclipse.platform.ui.git Kim Moir 17 min.
We probably won't change that. The owner isn't really that important, we use ACLs to manage the permissions. ex: pwebster@build:/gitroot/platform> getfacl eclipse.platform.ui.git # file: eclipse.platform.ui.git # owner: kmoir # group: eclipse.platform.ui # flags: -s- user::rwx user:wwwrun:rwx user:gerrit:rwx user:e4Build:rwx group::rwx mask::rwx other::r-x default:user::rwx default:user:wwwrun:rwx default:user:gerrit:rwx default:user:e4Build:rwx default:group::rwx default:mask::rwx default:other::r-x
(In reply to Paul Webster from comment #1) > We probably won't change that. The owner isn't really that important, we > use ACLs to manage the permissions. ex: Agreed!
(In reply to Dani Megert from comment #2) > (In reply to Paul Webster from comment #1) > > We probably won't change that. The owner isn't really that important, we > > use ACLs to manage the permissions. ex: > > Agreed! Maybe for the established platform and JDT team, as you know who the owner is. If I and others look at https://git.eclipse.org/ Iwe have no idea who to contact for the platform repos. Take eclipse.platform.common.git for example or eclipse.platform.common.git or eclipse.platform.text.git If we want to be more for more contributors we should make it clear who to contact for a certain repo. I don't think the change has a high important but I assume it is a chown -R paulw a and chown -R danim so something similar so the effort is also not very high.
Lars, by listing what's on the server you lead Paul and me down the wrong path ;-) The real problem is that user actually sees that owner when going to http://git.eclipse.org/c/ So, I agree that we should update the owner, so that users can see the real/current owner. I'm moving this to releng since it applies to all our repositories.
(In reply to Dani Megert from comment #4) > Lars, by listing what's on the server you lead Paul and me down the wrong > path ;-) The listing was actually copied from http://git.eclipse.org/c/, I have not access to the server. :-)
(In reply to Lars Vogel from comment #5) > (In reply to Dani Megert from comment #4) > > Lars, by listing what's on the server you lead Paul and me down the wrong > > path ;-) > > The listing was actually copied from http://git.eclipse.org/c/, I have not > access to the server. :-) Oops! :-)
(In reply to Dani Megert from comment #4) > So, I agree that we should update the owner, so that users can see the > real/current owner. First, to emphasize, its fine with me, if changed to be accurate (in fact, I think good idea if its the current Project Lead) .... but do want to say I can't imagine when "contacting the owner of a repository" as listed by CGit would lead to "more contributors" ... I mean open-source appropriateness aside, it's not like there is an email or anything there. I suggest better "repo description" files and readme.md files, for that. Perhaps someone could come up with an "Eclipse Project template" for consistency ... where we'd have pointers to bugzilla components, mailings lists, etc.? Any volunteers? > I'm moving this to releng since it applies to all our repositories. I think its still the webmasters that will have to make the change? (Or, at least easier/better if they do ... even if we could convince Kim to take the time to do it :) So ... we'd just need to come up with a list for them. I assume Dani will do that? Thanks.
> but do want to say I > can't imagine when "contacting the owner of a repository" as listed by CGit > would lead to "more contributors" ... I mean open-source appropriateness > aside, it's not like there is an email or anything there. Your are probably right, but at least I had personally twice the issue that I was trying to trigger a contribution and contact Paul about it, only to learn from Paul that Dani is the correct contact person. I guess having the incorrect contact person visible lead to waste of time. And it is not that the contact person changes currently very frequently.
Ran into this again, to assign the right person for eclipse.platform.debug in https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/20776/
With the project pages there is a good workaround.
(In reply to Lars Vogel from comment #10) > With the project pages there is a good workaround. Thanks. It was still on my list, but very close to the bottom.
