[indiana-discuss] [desktop-discuss] [sw-porters-discuss] contrib and pending repo processes

Shawn Walker swalker at opensolaris.org
Tue Nov 18 15:02:56 PST 2008


John Sonnenschein wrote:
> My argument is that accepting binary somehow built by someone we may  
> or may not know on some unknown environment and putting them in a  
> repository blessed by virtue that it's on a repo that carries the  
> namesake is just totally foolish.

Not foolish; a calculated risk based on available information.

Accepting certain materials will be high risk; while accepting the same 
materials from a trusted individual is lower risk.

There a number of factors that can change the potential risk.

-- 
Shawn Walker



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