Re: CVS Account Request

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Zeev Suraski wrote: > At 23:08 15/11/2000, Sterling Hughes wrote: > > >Also I think we should be a little more careful of who we give cvs access > >to on the code root. Right now I could probably get a fake e-mail and > >such from yahoo and obtain a nice ol' cvs account, from which I could then > >(if I was bad) commit some harmful code, which since it would not be a > >part of standard/ or main/ would not be given due attention (especially if > >it was a nice harmful one line bit) and then hurt users who use it. > > I can't tell you how I'm happy I am you say that. I was beginning to think > I was being paranoid, but I think that considering the popularity of PHP, > someone joining the dev team as a silent 'trojan horse' isn't unlikely at all. We have a source code versioning system for exactly that reason. A single person cannot screw up our CVS tree. If he does something extraordinarily stupid, pull his CVS account and revert his changes. - Sascha