Re: [PHP-DEV] CVS Account Request From: Zeev Suraski (zeev <email protected>)
Date: 11/15/00

At 00:28 16/11/2000, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> > Now, one can make a big deal out of it, and take it 'personally', that I
> > don't think the Web guys should have write access to the source code. This
> > shouldn't be the case though. It's just better for things to be organized
> > than not. Since Zak, for instance, has no benefit in having write access
> > to the php4 tree, there's no good reason he should have write access
> > there. I wouldn't deny him, or anybody else access if it's useful for
> > them, but right now, people are getting access to the source repository for
> > no good reason other than a historically messed-up setup.
>
>Well, the reason it makes sense for the doc folks to have commit access to
>the source tree is so that they can keep the embedded prototype comments
>in synch with the documentation.

I thought about it too, that's why I talked about the Web guys in my example.

>And I don't really see this multitude of bugs introduced by people who
>shouldn't be committing things. These problems have been introduced by
>people to whom I doubt we would have denied cvs access to under a stricter
>system.

Granted, there were less, but there were some. I think that the current
way CVS works is a bit too trusting, especially for new people. I don't
see a real problem if people send in patches for a few weeks before they're
granted write access to the source.

With the popularity of PHP, there comes some responsibility. I didn't find
it too much fun at all to have to represent the dev team on bugtraq. The
bugtraq security bugs were in the core, in some of the concepts of the
language. I don't want to increase the number of appearances on bugtraq
beyond the bare minimum.

Zeev 

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Zeev Suraski   <zeev <email protected>>
CTO, Zend Technologies Ltd.  http://www.zend.com/

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