Cannot commit owners.list

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:35:01 +0200, Christoph wrote:

> I was told to update owners.list to fix a mismatch of my email address
> with bugzilla. However when I try to commit I get an error message:
> 
> > $ cvs commit -m "fix my email so bugzilla and owners.list are in sync" owners.list 
> > Group gmail is undefined at /cvs/free/CVSROOT/acls line 87, <AVAIL> line 564.
> > Group gmail is undefined at /cvs/free/CVSROOT/acls line 87, <AVAIL> line 565.
> > Group gmail is undefined at /cvs/free/CVSROOT/acls line 87, <AVAIL> line 566.
> > **** Access denied: cwickert is not in ACL for owners
> > cvs commit: Pre-commit check failed
> > cvs [commit aborted]: correct above errors first!
> 
> What is going wrong here? Where are the first 3 lines coming from?

A week has passed without anyone other than Hans getting back to me.
Everyone else on vacation? ;)

The owners.list files in cvs are protected by acls. Only a few people
can change them. An artificial bottleneck.