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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more)
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more) |
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Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:07:15 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Ron Parker <address@hidden>
> I vaguely recall someone requesting aliases stored in {arch} at one
> point and I would be against that (at least in naive form). It could
> limit competition and create some form of central authority.
It would not create a central authority, not even close. It would
create project defaults that are easier to accept (or, to override in
a fork) -- and those are good things.
> Even worse there would be the potential for a foreign changeset
> to redirect the alias to a different archive, which I would
> consider somewhat of a security issue, cf.
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2004-03/msg00954.html
> for Tom's perspective on central authorities.
How is that different from a foreign changset that installs malicious
code in my tree? Yes, you have to be careful what changes you accept
into your trees.
What I don't like (mostly) is central authority lock-in (and thus
contention for who gets to run the central authority). We have one of
those, DNS, and that's plenty. What I do like are tools that allow
any one trust group to organize themselves assuming that trust.
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), Ron Parker, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), Aaron Bentley, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), Andrew Suffield, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), Tom Lord, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), Aaron Bentley, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), Tom Lord, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more),
Tom Lord <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), Tom Lord, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), Ron Parker, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), Tom Lord, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), Aaron Bentley, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), Tom Lord, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), James Blackwell, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), Tom Lord, 2004/07/14
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge, Stefan Monnier, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge, Tom Lord, 2004/07/13
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Default version for star-merge, Tom Lord, 2004/07/12