[Adium-devl] Trac permissions update

[Chris Forsythe]

Evan Schoenberg wrote:

>
> On Mar 28, 2007, at 7:26 AM, Colin Barrett wrote:
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>> I feel a bit responsible, firstly, since it was my suggestion that we  
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>> add the TICKET_CHPROP privilege (for purposes of dealing with  
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>> patches). I'm looking into some sort of external code review tool  
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>> (along the lines of Google's Mondrian[1]). 
>>
> We said when we decided to do it that it was a trial run to see if the 
> world was sufficiently mature to handle a little responsibility.  
> Unsurprisingly (to me, anyways), it's not.  No harm done :)
>
Aye, not your fault man.

>
>> We could try writing a query for Trac to look  
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>> at attachment names, but I've seen people use everything from .txt  
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>> to .diff to .patch. Also, it's sometimes required to post a .zip for  
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>> NIB changes.
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>> If anyone has other suggestions, let's hear them
>>
> I'm astounded there isn't a TracHack of some sort (plugin or patch) to 
> allow selective access to fields.  We might still face vandalism of 
> the patch field, but it couldn't be nearly as annoying to deal with as 
> massive ticket changes were.  At some point you have to trade 
> protection/safety for the convenience of people being able to interact 
> with your world.

I think requiring a extension of .patch would be a good start, and if 
it's compressed, .patch.zip or .patch.bz2. If we ended up going with 
that solution, a query for file extension name, we'd already be on the 
right track there. Plus it's just nice to have some uniformity there. 
Thoughts?

Chris