<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Jay Pipes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jaypipes@gmail.com">jaypipes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Kevin L. Mitchell<br>
<<a href="mailto:kevin.mitchell@rackspace.com">kevin.mitchell@rackspace.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 11:24 -0400, Jay Pipes wrote:<br>
>> In addition, this doesn't prevent anyone on the core team from doing a<br>
>> straight close and merge of the pull request into trunk, potentially<br>
>> breaking trunk.<br>
><br>
> So far as I know, there's no requirement that someone have merge<br>
> authority on a project in order to comment on pull requests. Do cores<br>
> have direct access to the openstack repos right now, and if they do,<br>
> what's to stop them from merging pull requests into trunk?<br>
<br>
No. Gerrit and Jenkins own the canonical repos, and that's the whole point.<br>
<br>
> I think<br>
> cores are smart enough to follow the procedures laid down, and if they<br>
> can't, well, they need to not be cores.<br>
<br>
I repeat my previous statement about humans being poor gatekeepers<br>
compared to automated enforceable policies.<br>
<br>
-jay<br></blockquote><div><br>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? <br></div></div>