Future owners/ACL choices

Michel Salim michel.salim at gmail.com
Sat Feb 24 17:49:04 UTC 2007


2007/2/24, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com>:

>   = At Will =                       = Queued =
>
> Closer to the pre-acl state      Closer to what we have presently
>
> More convenient for packagers    Less ability for a rogue packager
>                                  to build a bunch of orphaned packages
>                                  with malicious intent.
>
> Easier for packagers to make     Do we actually want this?
> small fixes to orphaned
> packages.
>
> There's no need to force admins  A package is reviewed and imported for
> to look at every request as we   a specific owner.  A new owner should
> already trust the packager to    be reviewed to make sure they're
> do the right thing.              trusted for this package.
>

How about a throttling system: only allow a certain rate of ownership
takeover before then queuing up the request. The allowed rate can be
set higher for more trusted maintainers, and reduced (even to zero)
for maintainers who botched the job.


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