Re: [Lse-tech] Re: Minutes from OSDL talk at LSE call today

[Zwane M. <zw...@ar...>]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Larry McVoy wrote:

> It's worth pointing out that triggers in open source trees are quite a bit
> more dangerous than in controlled environment.  Carl-Daniel's boss made
> quite a fuss over the fact that triggers are just programs that are run
> and can be used to cause all sorts of problems if people were malicious.
>
> I've toyed with the idea of disabling triggers in openlogging trees
> because of this.  I'm neutral on the topic, it's not like triggers
> are some huge money maker that we need to reserve for the commercial
> version.  If the general feeling is that triggers are useful and people
> will take responsibility for policing their own repos then we'll leave
> them in.  On the other hand, if someone putting a nasty trigger into
> your tree somehow becomes the fault of BitMover because we provided the
> infrastructure then out they go in the next release.

I personally find them very useful, perhaps we should just stick with the
other methods of disabling said functionality.

Thanks