On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 12:16:14PM -0500, Ned Deily wrote:

> On Nov 4, 2018, at 12:04, Paul Ganssle <p...@ganssle.io> wrote:
>
> > Some of the concerns about increasing the surface area I think are a 
> > bit overblown. I haven't seen any problems yet in the projects that 
> > do this,

You may or may not be right, but have you looked for problems or just 
assumed that because nobody has brought any to your attention, they 
don't exist?

"I have seen nothing" != "there is nothing to see".


> > and I don't think it lends itself to abuse particularly 
> > well. Considering that the rest of the CI suite lets you run 
> > arbitrary code on many platforms, I don't think it's particularly 
> > more dangerous to allow people to generate ephemeral static hosted 
> > web sites as well.
> 
> The rest of the CI suite does not let you publish things on the 
> python.org domain, unless I'm forgetting something; they're clearly 
> under a CI environment like Travis or AppVeyor or Azure.  That's 
> really my main concern.

Sorry Ned, I don't follow you here. It sounds like you're saying that 
you're fine with spam or abusive content being hosted in our name, so 
long as its hosted by somebody else, rather than by us (python.org) 
ourselves.

I trust I'm missing something, but I don't know what it is.


-- 
Steve
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