concept of package "ownership"

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Tue Jul 13 16:01:27 UTC 2010


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On 7/13/10 2:43 AM, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 09:35:32AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
>>
>> The "system" is fairly open with regard to just about everything except
>> attitude.  Currently it's mostly attitude that prevents "openness".
> 
> The ACL system restrict changes to other people packages to provenpackagers.
> And then the policies restrict a lot what provenpackages can do. So, the
> system is not very open, at least very unlike what Adam described.
> 

Right, the attitude has led to policy of what provenpackagers can do,
but the underlying system is open.  All it takes is an attitude change
as nothing else is preventing provenpackagers from doing more.

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Jesse Keating
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