Re: DM and pkg-perl (recap 1)
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:26:47 +0000, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> > * It wouldn't prevent a malicious DM from adding him/herself later to
> > the Uploaders field; not that I think that would be a real problem,
> > changes are easily reverted (and DM status too).
> I agree. I think that we should not assume there will be malicious
> events we must defend against. It seems more probable to me
> that such DM can simply forget that adding to Uploaders gives her some
> right that weren't there before.
> This means "extra caution when adding to Uploaders".
Agreed.
> > * I'm not sure if it scales if many DMs should ask many DDs for the
> > inclusion; but that's probably more hypothetical.
> See the proposal in my reply to Niko's mail. Should avoid bottlenecks in
> the same way as we currently do for "sponsored" uploads.
Sounds like a good addition to the proposal to me.
> > BTW: Might cleaning out the Uploaders field for all packages be a
> > good idea?
> I am not sure what does this give us. The DD introducing DM-Yes and/or
> new Uploaders have to filter the list anyway.
No big deal, it just might avoid the step of "should I add myself to
Uploaders / is this package DM-Upload enabled?"
Cheers,
gregor
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