On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:06:40AM -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

>> Could we adjust the tooling so that a request for commit access is
>> automatically granted if it isn't answered within three months?
 
> That's a potential security problem. If I, for example,  can get
> commit access to any idle program by claiming it when the original
> maintainer is most busy, with no review or doublecheck of my quality
> as a new maintainer, I can commit madness on a lot of low maintenance
> projects.

As I understand it, your sponsor is supposed to look after your commits.

> Given so many thousands of Fedora packages, it could get
> fascinatingly risky, especially if I start committing intriguing
> little '%post' procedures that interfere in subtle ways with other
> packages.

Yes - there is a risk. But the large number of ignored packages in my
mind is the higher security risk.

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