Hello committers and contributors,
Earlier today, an update was made to the mechanism that updates Github access permissions for project users. There was an error with this update that resulted in committers being used in place of the contributors list, leading to a large amount of erroneous changes to the contributor teams for many projects. This was halted once it was noticed, and a patch was quickly issued by the team. Access should now be restored for all users who had their access revoked due to this issue.
While we endeavour to test these changes as well as we can in development, testing against the Github API has always been a challenge. In the face of this issue, the team will look in the coming months to improve our testing methods and harnesses around Github syncing to better prevent these events in the future. To this end, an issue in our repository has been created to track the implementation of these tests:
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/it/webdev/eclipsefdn-vc-tools/-/issues/273We apologise for the noise in your email inboxes due to this issue, and will strive to improve processes to better prevent such events in the future.
Regards,
Martin Lowe (they/them)
Software Developer | Eclipse Foundation
Eclipse Foundation: The Community for Open Collaboration and Innovation 