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

[Jussi Lehtola]

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.
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Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
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