Review of namespace "archlinux" and documented ownership?

Allan McRae allan@archlinux.org
Mon Feb 16 01:38:09 GMT 2026


On 14/02/2026 12:31 am, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> Allan,
>
> In this morning's Office Hours for CTI we reviewed the branches and their
> owners and I noticed we had an archlinux namespace:
> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/SSDLC/Projects/gitolite#Branch_Structure_Evaluation 
>
>
> May you please help us by updating the wiki to identify the owners of the
> namespace so we have a point of contact?
>
> "Branch Name Space Conventions"
> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/GlibcGit#Branch_Name_Space_Conventions
>
> With a transition to gitolite we can explicitly identify keys which are
> permitted to collaborate on the branch and it would start with the
> namespace owners.
>

The archlinux namespace can be retired.  I used it for staging patches 
for backporting when I was packaging for Arch Linux.  I am no longer 
involved in that aspect and the current packagers do not have relevant 
commit access.

Allan


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