Re: [eclipse-dev] Write access to repos for release engineering

[Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I know when I took over for Kim's tasks, it was
explicitly decided not to do that, since it didn't really follow "the
committer rules" and was acknowledge to be a 
> "hack" of the rules in Kim's case.


Kim only had the commit rights so that our releng
scripts (i.e. the builder) could tag the projects. She did not use it to
change manifests or other things in those projects. In the new Git area,
we fixed this "hack" by introducing a new technical user (e4Build),
so that the builder is decoupled from a real person. This "user"
now also automatically updates the map files and sends out the releng mails.

Until CBI/Tycho can generate those parts in a pom
file, which are already present in the manifest and build.properties, a
valid approach could be, that the builder updates the pom.xml and commits
it via our technical user.

Dani