Protecting accidental overwritting or deletion of actions would be a great feature. I like the suggestion and approach of using Unix-style permissions.
On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 at 07:25, Dominic Kim <style9...@gmail.com> wrote: > Recently I discussed this: > https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk/pull/4058 with my > colleagues. > That PR is to add a feature to protect actions from deletion by mistake. > That is a good suggestion and I think we can also include more generalized > way to handle the issue. > > For example, what we can expect about permission are as follows. > > 1. Action protection. > 2. Hide codes from the shared package. > > I am a bit faint but IIRC, Rodric suggested linux-like permission > management. > > Regarding number 1, we can achieve it with the permission, "Read / not > Write / Execute". > And with regared to number 2, we can also achieve it with the permission, > "not Read / not Write (this is the default of shared package action) / > Execute". > > If we apply linux-like permission to these cases, we can have two different > permission flags, one for owners, the other for users of shared packages. > Then actions can have permission information such as "71" or "51". > So "71" would mean the owner of an action can do "read/write/execute" it > but the one who uses the shared action would be able to do "not read/not > write/execute". > "51" would mean the owner can do "read/not write/execute". > > There might be more cases, but I believe we can deal with them in the same > way. > Any feedback or idea on this would be appreciated. > > Thanks > Best regards, > Dominic > -- Regards, James Thomas
