Developers of Sympa

[IKEDA Soji <address@concealed>]

On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:04:48 +0200
Guillaume Rousse <address@concealed> wrote:

> Le 24/10/2013 14:13, IKEDA Soji a écrit :
> >>>> I know that:
> >>>>
> >>>>     * Soji shares all these aims,
> >>>>     * Guillaume's main objective is about point three, which has deep
> >>>>       consequences on point 2 (and will greatly ease point 1).
> I may add security also as a personal interest. After all, I'm supposed 
> to work as a security engineer here :) I'm dreaming of running sympa 
> daemons and web interface under taint mode, for instance, but given the 
> current code base, I'd rather make it a priority.

I added your interest (and mine) to developers' space for my memory:
https://www.sympa.org/developpers/index#wished_developments
I cannot explain effect of taint mode well.  It may be modified it as you 
like.

> [..]
> >>> - Some refactoring efforts by Guillaume can be controversy.
> >>>     When someone feels another way of refactorization is better, how
> >>>     should we behave?  ...Sorry, I can't explain my question very clear.
> >> It's very clear. :-)
> >> My opinion is that we should try to accept his ideas for a start. As I
> >> stated in my mail, we don't have to observe him silently and we can
> >> debate his choices. The only important point is that, if we the
> >> discussion reaches a dead end, he is the one that will have the last
> >> say.
> >
> > I got it.  At last Guillaume brings the hammer down, all of the else
> > shall sit up.
> I feel deeply honoured, but that's a bit too much responsability for me.
> 
> First, I can be as wrong as everyone else, but as any other 'expert', 
> I'm far most dangereous when I am :) Second, my official current time 
> allocation on the project (which has to be rediscuted soon...) doesn't 
> offer enough availabilty ensurance for this role.
> 
> I'd prefer than whatever the topic is (code refactoring, new feature 
> addition, etc...) the final decision belongs to David. This would allows 
> to weighs purely technical concerns with other concerns than we isolated 
> developers often ignore. And as he just reminded us, he's the guy in 
> charge of the project, after all :)
> 
> For everything else, I perfectly agree with David's proposal, and I also 
> concur than I don't intend to be the only one actually working during 
> half of the development cycle. I expect others to continue to commit 
> change directly, if needed, and to review my changes also. Which reminds 
> me the sympa-commits mailing-list seems to be down for almost 2 weeks now...

I also felt suspisious none commit anything.  It happens.

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