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On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 20:06:04 +0100 Christel Dahlskjaer |
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<christel@g.o> wrote: |
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| I'd say that it's entirely possibly for some non-dev to sneak |
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| malicious code into the tree as is now, just as it will be possible |
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| to do in an overlay. |
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| It's not like it's particulary difficult to have someone proxy for |
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| you, and let's face it, if someone is willing to do so then they |
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| probably can't be arsed checking that what they are committing is |
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| clean and nice.. I mean, I trust you, right? |
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Huge difference between committing a few things for a person you know, |
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where you have time to review code, and bulk committing random stuff |
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where you don't have time to check anything. That's the deal here -- if |
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a large number of developers can't handle maintainer-wanted, what makes |
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people think a far smaller number can without screwing up? |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk |
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