[Savannah-hackers] Re: [savannah-root] Re: Savannah hackers update

[Elfyn McBratney]

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Hello Richard,

On Saturday 18 Sep 2004 23:56, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     On Monday (13th), while investigating why a seemingly-active project
> had no administrator, Elfyn discovered that a number of users (in
> /etc/passwd) and groups (in /etc/group) didn't exist, but were either
> owner's (here, owner means the person who registered the project on
> Savannah) or members of a project.

Ouch, that wording terrible.  Sorry about that, can't have been easy to 
follow...

> Have you figured out what caused this problem in the first place?

A lot of my responses would be theories, but they all contain: broken bits in 
the database, not enough error recovery in the backend scripts, and bugs that 
have crept in over the last ~6 months.

We/I will be studying a lot of the code history in the coming weeks (if it 
takes that long).  A definitive answer will come soon; we're (re-)developing 
the solutions pretty much every day; all critical fixes are in now, though.

Elfyn

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Elfyn McBratney
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