Re: Two new projects in the CVS and 5th Toe
- From: "Seth Nickell" <seth gnome org>
- To: murrayc usa net, "Jim Gettys" <Jim Gettys hp com>
- Cc: "Havoc Pennington" <hp redhat com>, "Alexander Larsson" <alexl redhat com>, "Ole Laursen" <olau hardworking dk>, "Gnome Hackers" <gnome-hackers gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Two new projects in the CVS and 5th Toe
- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:52:01 -0700
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:21PM -0800, Murray Cumming wrote:
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 20:29, Jim Gettys wrote:
I think Havoc has it right.
We have the machine resources (at least we are in the process of
getting such resources installed); if it has something to do with
Gnome, we should be able host it without straining our development
resources.
Yes, that's all good.
Theoretically (so ignore this) there is the small technical problem
that
we don't have per-module access rights, so this wouldn't allow us to
host stuff for people who we don't know and trust already. And I doubt
that we want the workload of administering per-module access rights.
Agreed, we certainely can't let people just sign up online to host their
prokect ala sourceforge. But I don't think it takes a lot of trust to
decide somebody isn't going to be malicious and trash the cvs
repository[*]. If somebody's been making reasonable contributions and
acting nice on irc for a couple weeks they have already put enough
investment in that I don't think its going to be a problem. Similarly,
even strange maintainers that want to move an existing (substantial)
project are pretty much in the clear as I see things.
-seth
[*] ok, so it could be devilish trickery trying to infiltrate gnome to
bring us down... But.....
A) this hasn't happened before to my knowledge
B) cvs means that if it happens once every 4 years its pain but not
death
C) I have trouble imagining the person who has clue enough to
contribute, has reason enough to hate us, and is also mature enough to
trick us
I think the cost of discouraging contribution far exceeds the slim
chances of a serious (recoverable) problem.
-Seth
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