Re: [CA cert] The case for open source (was Re: Bet)

[Bob Ippolito <bob AT redivi.com>]

On Aug 8, 2004, at 1:37 PM, Duane wrote:

> David Kaufman wrote:
> > perhaps you didn't support your developer community, give them cvs
> > access, or start a dedicated mailing list for them to use to discuss
>
> Couple things, pserver (CVS) has been the source of a lot of hacks on 
> source forge etc, CAcert lacks any decent funding to have multiple 
> servers and/or rack space for those servers, and I'm sure you aren't 
> recommending that the developer community be given direct access to 
> live code/databases...

Ok, that is bullshit.  There are PLENTY of community sites such as 
sourceforge, savannah, etc. that give open source projects  a free 
place to host a source code repository.  The service costs exactly 
nothing, what's this about servers?  Security isn't really an issue 
because the servers aren't yours, and if someone does manage to change 
your repository (which has almost zero chance of happening) then you'll 
see it next time you update.  Also, if you REALLY don't like pserver, 
then don't use it.  CVS isn't the only game in town, there's arch and 
subversion too.

-bob