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

[John Sonnenschein]

On 18-Nov-08, at 3:11 PM, Luis de Bethencourt wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org 
> > wrote:
>> Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
>>> That said, we shouldn't accept binary built in an untrust worthy
>>> machine. The process we define has to make submissions be built in  
>>> our
>>> controled systems. How Launchpad works.
>>
>> Being aware that a "trustworthy machine" is highly dependent upon the
>> machine, the person using it, and so forth.
>>
>> Again, don't forget the exception cases.
>>
>> I don't think anyone here is suggesting that only certain people can
>> build software.
>>
>> If we are, that's sort of silly, since we can't distribute the  
>> workload
>> if we do that.
>>
>> --
>> Shawn Walker
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>
> Can you define distribute the workload?
>
> As far as I know all Linux distros have a build machine in the
> official repo (the one that gets mirrored) and nobody complains. I
> wouldn't trust a deb package built by someone I don't know and that I
> can't check the sources. The exception to this is gentoo, which makes
> the users be their own build systems in most of the cases.

+1. This is exactly my point.