On Fri, 2017-12-08 at 12:11 -0500, Steve Dickson wrote:
> 
> On 12/08/2017 11:54 AM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-12-08 at 11:40 -0500, Steve Dickson wrote:
> > > 
> > > On 12/08/2017 11:12 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > > > Well, I'd say this works great. There's maybe a hundred or two hundred
> > > > proven packagers and somehow none of them decide to mess up the kernel
> > > > any day. In fact, the commits which caused this thread are _correct_:
> > > > so far I haven't heard one word to the contrary. I don't see any point
> > > > in discussing hypotheticals.
> > > 
> > > You are telling me there hundreds of people that have complete
> > > control over all the packages in fedora with no boundaries???
> > > They can do anything they what??? Wow...
> > 
> > 
> > Steve, this is not really shocking.
> > Git has history, so you can always see anything that changes, and
> > maintainers are supposed to keep an eye on their packages and so they
> > will see any malicious intent immediately, right ?
> 
> Right.
> > If it is not malicious it is just helping, and there is nothing wrong
> > with that.
> 
> But if it is non-massive, non-critical shouldn't the maintainer be notified?
> All I'm saying yes, via a pull-request.

This would be ideal, yes, but for very trivial and obviously correct
changes I do not see the strict need for that overhead.

Simo.

-- 
Simo Sorce
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc
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