Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo, GitHub, and the Social Contract

[Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:56 AM, hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Dean Stephens:
>> On 02/15/15 22:26, hasufell wrote:
>>> Scripts no one can read except the team (even after being asked to
>>> publish them) is by definition propriety software. It was used to
>>> develop and package emul-linux-x86-* packages until this very day.
>>>
>> Your prose might benefit from labeling when you are using hyperbole,
>> otherwise when you make factually inaccurate claims it might seem as
>> though you actually believe them.
>>
>> In case that was unclear: while those scripts might not be formally
>> published, they have been made available to people who are not on the
>> team. Unless, that is, you define "the team" as anyone who has seen the
>> scripts; in which case you would be trivially correct by definition.
>>
>
> Are you saying you only share the code with your buddies? In that case,
> it is against our social contract as well.

Yes, fine, it is. I don't think you're making an interesting point.

> Not only that, it is even a serious security problem since the developer
> community doesn't know how these things are packaged and neither do the
> users.

There's a serious security problem if they were to release the scripts
(passwords and all) right this second.

There's a lack of man power and that's completely sufficient to
explain why these things haven't happened.