On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 2, 2009, at 6:53 AM, Jonathan Lange wrote: > >> 1. Putting owner in the URL and conflating ownership with write >> permissions leads to broken URLs, which is bad. >> >> John gets fed up with having to wait for the Launchpad team to release >> new versions of launchpadlib etc, so he sets up a daily build at: >> >> https://lp.net/~john-the-coder/ubuntu/python-launchpadlib/+recipe/nightly. >> >> That works great for a while, but eventually someone makes a change to >> launchpadlib that means that the packaging branch in the recipe is no >> longer appropriate, which means the PPA is out of date. >> >> John is no longer interested in this launchpadlib crap. He looks >> around for someone who wants to maintain it, and finds US government >> agent Jack Bauer, who is going to fix it NOW. John passes edit >> permissions (and thus ownership) to Jack, changing the URL to: >> https://lp.net/~jack-bauer-24/ubuntu/python-launchpadlib/+recipe/nightly >> >> Meanwhile, Kara is really getting into launchpadlib hacking and has >> come to rely on John's daily build. She notices that John's PPA is out >> of date, makes a note of the recipe URL so she can fix it later, and >> then gets on with other things. Then, some time after US special agent >> Jack Bauer has taken control of the situation, she goes to the URL she >> wrote down and gets a 404! Noooo. > > Isn't that where teams come in?
Well, only if we do something like forbid people to own recipes as individuals. It's _actually_ where ACLs come in. > Would it be totally insane to restrict > tilde names in the URLs to teams only? Even when it's super trivial to > create new teams? <wink> Not totally insane, but at least 95% insane. jml _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
