On 27/10/08 at 16:40 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > - this process might be too heavy with fine-grained privileges as it would > > > require the intervention of many DD each time we have to grant a right > > > (when trusting the decision of 2 members with special rights would be > > > enough). > > > > That's why I don't think that it's a good idea to play with a lot of > > different privileges. Privileges should be granted when they are > > necessary to do something, and if you are a DD, you should be able to > > easily get any privilege you need to do your work. You are already > > trustworthy, so there's no need to double-check everything you do. > > If I advocate someone based on some perl modules, I trust him to handle > any perl modules reasonnably well but I certainly don't trust him to > package a new library. I do trust some people to refrain from doing stupid > things with their DD powers but that kind of trust comes with much more > time and interaction. It's not the kind of trust that I would give to > anyone that has only proven that he's able to package perl modules. And > yet we want to give that contributor some immediate reward for his work.
If someone is only trustable to package perl modules, shouldn't he be a DM instead of a DD? -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
