Re: [Gzz] Paperbot status

[Tuomas Lukka]

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 05:49:43PM +0300, Tuukka Hastrup wrote:
> On Tue, 13 May 2003, Tuomas Lukka wrote:
> > Well, the review will be easier once it's in CVS..
> > 
> > Isn't the general idea here that we'll do nothing outside CVS unless
> > there is a really important reason; what's the reason here?
> 
> There are several reasons why everything isn't in CVS, and it would be 
> nice to get rid of them.

Ok, let's see...

> First problem comes with files being in some specific places and owned by 
> some specific user who doesn't have write access to CVS. So I'd have to do 
> anonymous checkout and symlink the files. And every time I twid something, 
> I'd need to commit and update. Here one more problem is that the system 
> spans several machines and I'd need to update several times.

So problem one is laziness? ;)

> Another is security: when I'm prototyping, the code most probably isn't 
> secure, so it isn't nice to publish it in any way. That's why I said I'd 
> like someone to review the code first.

Ahh, ok, I didn't understand what you meant by review. Ok, it's
a valid reason because the code is running live on a server and 
could do damage if exploited maliciously.

Who is able to review the code?

> Another thing was that the scripts contain configuration variables which 
> are better unpublished.

Ok, valid as well.

        Tuomas