Re: [Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>] General bug polic
Hi,
>>"Shaleh" == Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net> writes:
Shaleh> On 01-Jun-99 Joey Hess wrote:
>> shaleh@clifford.livenet.net wrote:
Shaleh> However I have had a bug or three closed by someone else --
Shaleh> for the wrong package. Most recently was an anacron bug that
Shaleh> was closed by the ytalk maint. It was an accident, he fixed
Shaleh> it the moment I told him, but it should not be possible to
Shaleh> do.
Setting poliucy shall not prevent errors and typos; so this is
not a viable argument.
Shaleh> Forgive me, I have worked at an ISP for too long and always
Shaleh> see the cracker side of things. Currently we are pushing 500
Shaleh> developers and everyone says "we trust you". What happens
Shaleh> when someone violates that trust? How long will we work to
Shaleh> clean up the mess? We have already had developers misuse
Shaleh> their accounts on the debian.org machines.
If we have a cracker in our midst, the BTS is the least of our
problems. If we are trying to protect the project from a malicious
insider, we need to evaluate the security scenario and come up with a
solution that addresses teh whole issue, rather than creating
uncoordinated adhoc solutions (the efficacy of which is in doubt,
moreever).
manoj
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