Re: Jira User Management

[Hervé BOUTEMY <he...@free.fr>]

Thank you Mark for the proposal

> If the Maven PMC would like to take up this offer, infra asks that the
> PMC chair responds using reply-all to this e-mail and identifies the
> nominated individual.
yes, we'd like to take up this offer and nominate Brian Fox for this

(I know karma has already been granted to Brian and he fixed INFRA-9422: this 
reply is just to keep a trace in our mailing-list archives)

Regards,

Hervé
Apache Maven PMC Chair

Le lundi 20 avril 2015 20:46:29 Mark Thomas a écrit :
> Dear Maven PMC,
> 
> You have a very large number of Jira projects and role based
> permissions assignment does not scale. For this reason, users are
> assigned to groups and the groups are assigned to roles.
> 
> The downside to this approach is that the jira-administrator role is
> required to add users to groups. This essentially means infra has to
> manage the groups and Maven can't self-service.
> 
> Infra would like to make the following offer to the Maven PMC.
> 
> The PMC may nominate a single member of the PMC who must either be a PMC
> chair or a member of the ASF.
> 
> Infra will add this individual to the jira-administrators group and
> provide instructions on how to add members to groups.
> 
> Because of the elevated privileges associated with the
> jira-administrators role, the nominated individual must agree to use
> this karma solely for managing the groups of the Maven PMC.
> 
> If the jira-administrator role is mis-used this offer will be withdrawn
> and the Maven PMC will have to manually add the users to roles
> on a Jira project by Jira project basis or wait for infra to add the
> user to the role.
> 
> The Maven PMC must agree to notify infrastructure if the nominated
> individual changes.
> 
> If the Maven PMC would like to take up this offer, infra asks that the
> PMC chair responds using reply-all to this e-mail and identifies the
> nominated individual.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Mark
> on behalf of the infra team