This announcement is directed at those who have CVS commit access to our contributions repository.

Thanks to the work of Derek Wright, some very important changes have been made to the contributions repository. These changes are intended to increase safety.

The most important change is that CVS commit, tag and branch permission is now restricted to the drupal.org user who is listed as author on the corresponding project page for that specific project. In other words, only project owners may now commit, branch or tag their projects. Read on for specific details.

Of course, some projects have more than one developer. As you can read on this handbook page, you can grant more CVS users access to your project by clicking the "CVS access" tab on your project page.

The sandbox, tricks and docs directories are exempt from these rules. Anyone can commit, but tagging and branching is disallowed.

Also exempt are .po and .pot files so translators with CVS access can commit translations with minimal work from the project owner, the translators still can't branch or tag translations.

We expect everything to work as intended, but if you should encounter a problem, please file an issue against the drupal.org project or CVS project as appropriate.