Repo Creation Right for WMF engineers

There was a long discussion this week on the wikitech-l mailing list about whether or not the right to create Gerrit repositories ("repos"; essentially stores of code for individual projects) should be extended to all WMF engineers in order to speed up the current development cycle. Responding, WMF developer and Gerrit expert Chad Horohoe explained that setting up a new repository is not just about choosing a name; rather, the creator must have to have some knowledge about the structure of user access permissions in Gerrit, plus a number of other related properties. Though a "Project Creators" group could be created to meet this need – Horohoe provided a mw:Git/Creating_new_repositories a tutorial on how to create repositories for this purpose – there was concern about repo list clutter, given that deleting and renaming the repos is not possible at this moment. Nevertheless, there was also general support for the view that extended creation rights could decentralise Gerrit handling, making it more in-keeping with underlying version control system Git's own more distributive approach to contributions.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-06-11/Technology_report