Updating the dbus committers list

Simon McVittie smcv at collabora.com
Mon Oct 15 12:37:27 UTC 2018


On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 at 18:37:01 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> As you might have seen, the dbus freedesktop.org project is in the process
> of migrating to the new freedesktop.org Gitlab.

This has now happened.

> - "core":
>   - the D-Bus specification (hosted as part of the reference implementation)
>   - the reference implementation, dbus (migration pending)

These are now both hosted here:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/

> - language bindings:
>   - dbus-java (inactive, migration pending)

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus-java/

>   - dbus-glib (deprecated, already migrated)

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus-glib/

>   - dbus-python (semi-deprecated, already migrated)

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus-python/

>   - dbus-mono (EOL, migration and archival pending)

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus-mono/
(archived, no new issues or commits are accepted)

>   - dbus-qt (EOL, migration and archival pending)

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus-qt
(archived, no new issues or commits are accepted)

>   - dbus-qt3 (EOL, migration and archival pending)

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus-qt3
(archived, no new issues or commits are accepted)

> - misc:
>   - dbus-test (inactive, migration pending)

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus-test

>   - dbus-doc (EOL, migration and archival pending)

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus-doc
(archived, no new issues or commits are accepted)

> I think we should take this opportunity to cut down the maintainers list
> so that it more closely resembles the active membership of the private
> dbus-security mailing list.

I have now done this, so that the project won't get compromised if
someone breaks into an inactive former maintainer's gitlab account.
Former maintainers are still listed as members of the dbus group, but
they now have "Guest" status, which does not give them any special
privileges when compared with ordinary users of freedesktop.org Gitlab.
Thanks to all the former maintainers for their contributions!

> The move to Gitlab also means we can grant additional privileges
> on individual projects (git repositories), so we can make someone a
> Maintainer or Owner of one project without needing to make them a
> Maintainer or Owner of the whole dbus group. I'm intending to make use
> of that to give the author [of] dbus-java and dbus-test privileged access
> to those two repositories.

Matthew Johnson now has Maintainer access to dbus-java and dbus-test,
as planned.

    smcv


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