On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:27:43 +0000 Laurie Clark-Michalek <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/6/25 Xyne <[email protected]>: > >> The maintainer of a package should be able to delete comments as this > >> would make some of the more popular packages' comments easier to clean > >> up. Instead of a trusted user needing to do this, the owner of the > >> package could be allowed to delete any comments older that a week. > >> That's a policy decision, but I hope we will have some way of deleting > >> comments that refer to bugs that have been fixed. > > > > This would prevent users from being able to flag malicious packages. If > > this were implemented, I would like to see a "report malicious package" > > link or something else. As Arch continues to grow we will end up with > > malicious users and I would prefer to be prepared to handle these when > > the time comes. > > > > That's why I said "delete any comments older that a week". From what I > have seen, almost all packages are checked, and I can't imagine that > anyone who found a malicious package wouldn't report it, if not here, > to the forums. In either case, it would be discovered, as I doubt that > if the issue has not been brought to the attention of the community in > the week after discovery then I doubt it will be in any sensible > timescale. Sorry, I missed the "older than a week" part. That should be more than enough time for the package to have been reported and deleted. Ignore my previous reply.
