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  • From: Arjan Bouter <abouter AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: seth AT swoolley.homeip.net
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] restricting access to important spells
  • Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:04:16 +0200

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On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:49:53 -0700
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".
>

There are a great deal of spells to experiment with, varied from easy ones to
monsters. I wasn't suggesting to limit access to all spells, just the few
related to boot and login.

Arjan Bouter

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