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On Tue, March 10, 2009 7:07 am, Duncan wrote: |
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> Gordon Malm <gengor@g.o> posted |
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> 200903091617.48682.gengor@g.o, excerpted below, on Mon, 09 Mar |
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> 2009 16:17:48 -0700: |
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>> There is an important security aspect to retiring folks - commit |
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>> abilities. Perhaps in the case a dev wants to contribute but cannot in |
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>> the near future their commit privs can just be revoked until such time |
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>> they ask for them to be turned back on? I guess that would be an |
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>> 'extended devaway' ? |
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> We don't want some still active authorization and key |
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> from two years ago getting stolen and used to try to slip a bad commit |
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> under the radar [...] |
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With some devs reviewing gentoo-commits@, I highly doubt that this commit |
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could go unnoticed more than a few hours. |
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Pierre-Yves Rofes |
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Gentoo Linux Security Team |
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