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  • From: Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] restricting access to important spells
  • Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:27:50 -0500

On Jul 13, seth AT swoolley.homeip.net [seth AT swoolley.homeip.net] wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 11:39:16AM +0200, Arjan Bouter wrote:
> > In the last couple of weeks it happened a few times that important spells
> > like linux-pam and shadow got broken by updated spells. Needless to say
> > it's annoying when I've got to fix a spell just to be allowed access to
> > my own box...
> >
> > Mathieu (lejatorn) and I were talking on #sourcemage about restricting
> > access to certain important spells to
> > component leads and a few selected devs chosen by those leads.
> > We think anything related to boot/login should get on that list of spells.
> >
> > Any thoughts on this?
>
> How else will people learn?
>
> Why restrict it to a small group that has all the in-knowledge?
>
> Test grimoire is expected to break.
>
> How did they break it? Who broke it? Were they actually newbies?
>
> I think I'll need more evidence than "somebody broke test".

What Seth said, with the addition that I'm looking at the IRC log of this
conversation and I don't even see that you guys have a solid idea of spell
changes that caused your problems.

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