[webkit-dev] Sunsetting committership and reviewership

Gyuyoung Kim gyuyoung.kim at webkit.org
Sun Apr 7 17:25:27 PDT 2013


+1

IMO, as Dirk suggested, the deactivation of the account is more reasonable
unless the reviewership or committership is revoked,

Gyuyoung


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze at adobe.com> wrote:

>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 5, 2013, at 12:00 AM, "Ryosuke Niwa" <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Kenneth Rohde Christiansen <
> kenneth.christiansen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am not sure this is really needed. People sometimes disappear from
>> working on trunk for extended periods of time due to internal products
>> and downstream branches. It has happened multiple times to me. That
>> doesn't mean that I won't come back and start working upstream later.
>>
>> Also it could be that some people working on Blink would like to
>> contribute to WebKit in their spare time or in the future again.
>>
>> Part of being a reviewer is also knowing what and when to review, so I
>> am not sure there really is an issue here.
>>
>
> I'm not too concerned about the reviwership but more about committership
> from a security point of view.
>
> I don't think a lot of committers are going to monitor their old SVN
> accounts and update passwords periodically.  Having lots of inactive SVN
> accounts isn't that helpful.
>
> Maybe I didn't phrase it correctly, but I'm suggesting more of suspension
> so that we have a smaller attack surface for SVN credentials.
>
>
> Suggesting the deactivation of the SVN account is reasonable, as long as
> you get it back on request.
>
> Greetings
> Dirk
>
>
> - R. Niwa
>
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