[hibernate-dev] Branch protections: enabling selected maintainers on older branches

[Gail Badner]

Thanks for doing that Sanne!

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 11:28 PM Yoann Rodiere <yoann at hibernate.org> wrote:

> Sounds like a good idea.
>
> I took the liberty of renaming the team, since it's specifically about ORM,
> and older versions of other projects may not be maintained by the same
> people.
>
> I'll do something similar for Search.
>
> Yoann Rodière
> Hibernate Team
> yoann at hibernate.org
>
>
> On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 22:36, Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > yesterday I pushed a fix on Hibernate ORM branch 5.3 by mistake and
> > had to apologize to Gail, since we're to be very conservative with
> > that branch and she needs to be able to track and approve any changes
> > on this specific branch.
> >
> > This made me check if there was a way to express such rules on github,
> > and there is: the "branch protection" feature can now apply different
> > rules, such as requiring to be a member of a specific team, on a
> > specific branch.
> >
> > I like that: we can allow most current committers to keep working on
> > any branches in active development, such as master, while only a more
> > restricted group can push freely on selected older branches.
> >
> > Of course admins can always change the settings if there's compelling
> > need; in this case I like the self-imposed restriction as it would
> > help avoid mistakes - such as trying to be helpful when too tired.
> >
> > So I enabled this on 5.3 already .. I hope you agree it's a welcome
> > change, but we can of course reverse this if there's strong concerns,
> > or if we regret it later.
> >
> > Thoughts? I'd assume other Hibernate projects might want to do a
> > similar thing; among other benefits it might make it easier to give
> > push permissions to new volunteers, withouth needing to impose on them
> > all the responsibilities and more complex processes we have for
> > maintenance branches.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sanne
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