3.7beta planned for this Friday, March 5

Doug Way dway at mailcan.com
Wed Mar 3 03:52:50 UTC 2004


On Tuesday, March 2, 2004, at 07:44 PM, Julian Fitzell wrote:

> goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote:
>> Yes. Having a Guide account seems smart. I think. Think, think...
>> Well, need to dwell a bit on that.
>
> Hmm... doesn't sound like a great idea to me, though it'll obviously 
> work in the short term.  But we lose any information about *which* 
> guide posted such and such a version, etc.  Would be much better to 
> have a flag to mark a package as being a base package and a flag to 
> mark a user as a guide.  Then the security can just allow those users 
> into those packages.  Not sure how much work that actually is, etc...

Yeah, I was thinking of something like that as an alternative, too.  
That may actually be a better solution, although it's a bit more work 
for Goran.

- Doug




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