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

[Tomas Mraz]

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.
-- 
Tomas Mraz
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