set branch/repository permissions and privacy through bzr
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bazaar |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
| Breezy |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
As a developer
I'd like to set permissions on a branch when I create it
So that I can control who can see it or push to it.
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At the moment Bazaar branches inherit the permissions of their containing directory. There are many bugs clustered around either:
* failing to set the right permissions because of bad interactions with eg sftp or ftp servers or filesystems
* you can't set the permissions directly in the place you most care about it, the bzr client itself
With a smart server, there may be permissions beyond just the filesystem permissions: for instance Launchpad does both read-access (ie privacy) and write-access based on branch owners and subscribers, and these go through a team system separate from the filesystem database. Bazaar can probably manipulate this by calling the Launchpad Branch.setPrivate rpc.
This probably needs to be considered as part of the ui3 work.
| summary: |
- set branch/repository permissions through bzr + set branch/repository permissions and privacy through bzr |
| Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote | #1 |
| Jonathan Lange (jml) wrote | #2 |
| tags: | added: check-for-breezy |
| tags: | removed: check-for-breezy |
| Changed in brz: | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| Changed in bzr: | |
| assignee: | Martin Pool (mbp) → nobody |
It would be cool to have an 'lp' subcommand that let you fiddle with branch metadata on Launchpad. E.g.
% bzr lp private
% bzr lp public
% bzr lp fixes 123456