Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues

[Florian Weimer]

* Colin Walters:

> On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 13:57, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>> Well, you can coax tla into a centralized development model, by
>> handing out something which is rather close to shell access.
>
> ??  Committers only have sftp access,

This is not a real barrier.  AFAIK, SFTP exposes the whole file system
without restrictions.  This probably means that local vulnerabilities
can well turn into remote ones.

> if you use something like rssh.

rssh probably doesn't support the SFTP subsystem (i.e. it's not
possible to add further restrictions to the paths you can access).

> I also use SELinux on top of it.

*hmpf* The kernel whishlist grows and grows. 8-(

> You can also use WebDAV, kerberized ftp, whatever.

WebDAV could be an option, but there aren't any implementations which
one could consider lightweight AFAIK.

>> Thanks.  I'm actually looking for such projects, especially if they
>> have active development mailing lists.  Do you know further examples?
>
> Squid maybe?

A bit doubtful, the snapshots contain up-to-date CVS keywords.

>> What does this mean for tla's merging capabilities?  Will users notice
>> that the logs suddenly went away?  
>
> They will certainly see a bunch of "D {arch}/blah" in the changesets if
> that's what you mean.

I'm more concerned by the impact on merging, but you have already
clarified this below.

>> Could you do that monthly, too,
>> without any negative impact?
>
> I think if you were careful not to prune logs from still-active
> branches, sure.

Uh-oh.  This needs a global view and thus is very hard to do.

For GCC, this means that most patchlogs cannot be removed until the
branch is officially dead (not only unmaintained, but really dead).
Currently, GCC 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 and of course HEAD are still in
development.  A sizable number of patch logs has to live for years.

But I'll lurk a bit on the Rhythmbox mailing list...

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