Re: long term goals of debian membership
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
[snippage]
> What is the big deal with keeping the membership small, does it really
> take a lot of resources to support each official member ?
>
> As long as people dont break policy isnt it better to accept whatever
> help they can provide, if policy cant protect debian from being abused
> by its member then isnt that a flaw with debian policy that should be
> corrected.
You can look at it as an excercise in security policy: give each user the
smallest set of privelages to accomplish whatever it is the user needs to
do. Limiting trust limits the potential for harm when that trust breaks
down, a concept which appears often to be learned after the fact.
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