On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:36:53PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 06:44:23PM +0000, Clint Adams wrote: > > Is there any legitimate reason that wanna-build access should be > > restricted to any group smaller than the entirety of gid 800 > > membership? > > There was. [...snip history...] > Of course, this bug has now been fixed: rather than using a libdb-based > database, wanna-build is now running off a postgresql database. As such, > it might be prudent to investigate whether giving regular developers > read-access to that database could be doable (it might be difficult, > given that wanna-build runs on a restricted host currently, or it might > be simple; this is something for the wanna-build team to look into). But > I don't think it's unfair to wait a while until all the issues have been > dealt with before thinking about giving the developer body access to the > database. It was pointed out to me on IRC by a member of the Debian sysadmin team that this has in fact already happened: buildd.debian.org, aka cimarosa.debian.org, is not a restricted host, and the wanna-build database is not restricted; every DD is able to access the database. Since I'm in the set of users who has the ability to read from this database anyway, I didn't notice; apologies for the honest mistake. Also note that while the above is true, the DSA team tells me that cimarosa is currently rather starved for IO; so while you can access the database, that does not mean necessarily mean you should, unless you've got a good reason to, since overusing it might interfere with the smooth functioning of the buildd network (and we don't want that, right?) Regards, -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html
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