rfc: permissions on package branches

[Robert Collins]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
> On 18 February 2011 16:27, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
>> What about 3 - have no owner at all: there is a unique path for each
>> package branch, so we could just use that, and only that, for the
>> branch path for official package branches.
>
> That's fine with me.  It seemed like it might be harder to implement
> inside Launchpad?  We can either go there directly, or actually do 1
> (celebrity owner) but make it look like 3.

We probably want an owner in the same sense that a team has an owner:
someone that has administrative privilege over the thing but no direct
access to the content of the thing. (For instance, the owner of a team
can set an administrator, but can't join the teams mailing list).
[modulo bugs :P]. I'd make *that* owner for these branches the owner
of the distro series the branch is for, not a celebrity.

Making package upload rights supercede 'owners' rights should be very
straight forward. The nominal owner - the distro series owner - would
provide a regular namespace today, and it should be pretty straight
forward to coerce the official package branches into just having their
official namespace as default.

Tim's work towards making series branches have a supported 'alias'
would provide the entry point for the coercion; all in all it should
be quite straight forward.

-Rob