[Python-Dev] Invitation to try out open source code review tool (original) (raw)

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Sun May 4 18:52:07 CEST 2008

Guido van Rossum wrote:

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefanml at behnel.de> wrote:

Personally, I would consider the following sufficient:

1) people who have authenticated themselves against the underlying VCS (i.e. project members) may post public comments and comment on other comments Tell me how to authenticate against a SVN project using HTTP only.

Good question. :)

2) anonymous users can post comments that won't become publicly visible until an authenticated user acknowledges them or comments on them. Can you work out this design more? I don't understand how an authenticated user can acknowledge an anonymous comment if it isn't publicly visible.

I was suggesting that you'd sign in as a project member and would then see all comments. They just wouldn't show up on the public web sites without further action. I think that matches the normal work flow. External users usually do some kind of upstream talk anyway. It would be rare that no project member is involved in a patch contribution. And new contributions would go through the bug tracker first anway, right?

Also, AFAIK our bug tracker doesn't support anonymous comments either, so I don't think this is an important use case.

That should be enough to keep the system open to everybody and to keep spam away. It's also more work to code.

Sure, it's also just an idea from my side.

Stefan

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