Re: [aqualung-friends] Re: some tweaks

[Mark K. <mar...@gm...>]

On 6/20/05, Tom Szilagyi <tsz...@us...> wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 17:51:57 -0700, Mark Knecht
> <mar...@gm...> wrote:
>=20
> > Hello developers,
> >    Is this safe or is this a problem waiting to happen? New versions
> > of Aqualung being distributed by folks who are not the main developers
> > and from web sites other than the main Aqualung website?
>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> I see absolutely no problem with this. As this is an open source project,
> I welcome any and all contributions. The simplest and most effective way
> of doing so is to send patches, like Tomek did. :)
>=20
> Besides, he did not "distribute a new version", he merely uploaded a patc=
h
> to his site, so I could easily download it (I suppose it was not intended
> for mass distribution).

I completely support the idea of people making contributions but, as a
user, I will never touch them if they don't come from the project's
web site/CVS server. I think that his email was a bit unclear as to
the intended audience. I point out that if someone (not necessarily
this contributor) wanted to add a small line of code that essentially
did an 'rm -rf /home/mark/*' to Aqualung and hurt some unsuspecting
person like me that there would be very little you'd be able to do to
help me after the fact!

>=20
> Rest assured that I will carefully inspect any changes made to CVS code,
> even if they are based upon patches received and not my work in the first
> place.

I am sure you will and that's why I will ONLY use what you as the
project leader supplies. There are good reasons for a central
distribution of Open source code. I encourage all contributors to
supply their patches in the most normal manner.

Cheers,
Mark