[Python-Dev] Python sprint mechanics

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Tim Peters wrote:
>> Instead it would make best sense for each
>> sprint project to work in its own branch, something SVN makes very
>> easy, but only for those who _can_ commit.
> 
> There's no way of restricting commit privileges to
> a particular branch?

In the current setup, not easily. However, sprinters would certainly
restrain themselves to the branches they are told to use. IOW, technical
mechanisms for fine-tuned write access are often besides the point:
you first need to give these people any kind of write access at all,
and then you find that further restricting that can readily be done
without any technical enforcement.

Or, to put it yet in a different way: whether or not commit privileges
are restricted, you need to add the sprinters to the committers list
first, unless you want to allow anonymous commits to these branches.

Just to not be mistaken: it is technically fairly easy to add somebody
to the committers list. So technical, there is no problem to add all
sprinters.

Regards,
Martin