Summary/Minutes from today's FESCO meeting (2011-12-12 at 1800 UTC)

[Tomas Mraz]

On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 22:06 +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote: 
> On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 22:52 +0200, Jussi Lehtola wrote: 
> > On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:34:12 +0100
> > Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 15:21 -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote: 
> > > > On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 13:16 -0700, Ken Dreyer wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Stephen Gallagher
> > > > > <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > > > * #715 Provenpackager education/status/brainstorming  (sgallagh,
> > > > > >  18:43:02)
> > > > > 
> > > > > There was some discussion a while back about preventing certain
> > > > > extensions from being uploaded to the lookaside cache. Could
> > > > > ".patch" be added to that list?
> > > > 
> > > > Of course, a whitelist might be a better idea. Maybe we only
> > > > allow .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 and .zip to be uploaded this way and make
> > > > additional exceptions as they arise.
> > > 
> > > What about running a 'file' command on the stuff and if the output
> > > contains 'text' then allow upload only with some kind of --force
> > > option?
> > 
> > And what about separately shipped license files, documentation and so
> > on?
> > 
> > Not a valid option.
> 
> What's wrong with using --force option for such files? These are not
> that common so that should not be much hassle. Also if they are small I
> do not see any reason why not to put them directly into the git
> repository.
> 
> Or maybe the condition for need of the force flag could be modified to
> not require it for files larger than some size (for example 100kBytes)
> even if 'file' outputs that they are a text files.

I created RFE bugzilla
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=767264
with proof of concept patch.
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Tomas Mraz
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