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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Using monotone in a team
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Timothy Brownawell |
Subject: |
Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Using monotone in a team |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:49:25 -0600 |
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 11:32 -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 12:24:27AM -0600, Timothy Brownawell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 17:06 +1100, Brian May wrote:
> > > >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Carosone <address@hidden> writes:
> > >
> > > Daniel> Again, it's not about permissions to change things, it's
> > > Daniel> about whether your trust (ie, how you pay attention to)
> > > Daniel> what they do.
> > >
> > > Daniel> In this context, this means that everyone accepts changes
> > > Daniel> in the junior branch from junior and denior developers,
> > > Daniel> and in the main branch only from the senior developers.
> > > Daniel> More specifically, that I only trust main-branch certs
> > > Daniel> signed by senior developers.
> > >
> > > Daniel> From time to time, a senior developer looks at revs in the
> > > Daniel> junior branch.
> > >
> > > What happens if a trusted developer's key becomes compromised
> > > (e.g. laptop stolen) or the developer becomes untrustworthy
> > > (e.g. fired)?
> > >
> > > Can you somehow say that old signatures are still valid, but new ones
> > > aren't?
> >
> > Define "new" (monotone has no concept of time).
>
> Except for a partial order of revisions after other revisions. You
> could still give a list of recent valid revisions and let the partial
> order fend a lot of older revisions whose certs would also be valid.
But certs can be added to revisions at any time. So even if a revision
is known to have been committed before the key was revoked, it's
entirely possible that some certs attached to it could have been added
after the key was revoked.
--
Timothy
Free (experimental) public monotone hosting: http://mtn-host.prjek.net
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Using monotone in a team, (continued)
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Using monotone in a team, Daniel Carosone, 2006/11/30
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Using monotone in a team, Brian May, 2006/11/30
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Using monotone in a team, Timothy Brownawell, 2006/11/30
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Using monotone in a team, Nathaniel Smith, 2006/11/30
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Using monotone in a team, hendrik, 2006/11/30
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Using monotone in a team,
Timothy Brownawell <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Using monotone in a team, hendrik, 2006/11/30
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Re: Using monotone in a team, Boris, 2006/11/30
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Re: Using monotone in a team, Daniel Carosone, 2006/11/30
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Re: Using monotone in a team, Hugo Cornelis, 2006/11/30
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Re: Re: Using monotone in a team, Boris, 2006/11/30
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Re: Re: Using monotone in a team, Timothy Brownawell, 2006/11/30
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Re: Re: Re: Using monotone in a team, Boris, 2006/11/30
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Re: Re: Re: Using monotone in a team, Timothy Brownawell, 2006/11/30
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Re: Using monotone in a team, Daniel Carosone, 2006/11/30
[Monotone-devel] Re: Using monotone in a team, Boris, 2006/11/30