On 31 Jan 2006, at 16:24, Matthew Toseland wrote > On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 03:28:49PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote: >> On 31 Jan 2006, at 15:10, Matthew Toseland wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 02:48:42PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote: >>>> I don't think so - sending people 3MB emails through a mailing list >>>> is not acceptable. >>>> >>>> If someone wants to look at those changes - then they can do-so >>>> through the subversion command line client. >>> >>> It is far more convenient to do so through the mailing list, that >>> is why >>> we HAVE the mailing list. And our security rests on people watching >>> it. >> >> Ok, hands up who will audit 3MB commits... > > How do we make automatic verification tools deal with this? Obviously > people won't verify 3MB commits by hand, but not sending them to the > list undermines our whole strategy doesn't it?
Ideally we should send an email to the list informing people that there was a large commit, so that if they want to take a look - they can. > Frost does not ship any boards with dodgy names last time I looked. > And > freenet itself provides reasonably effective filesharing tools and > will > continue to improve in its quality for use in sharing large files. We have to be careful. Ian.
