Re: companies contributing to X [was: Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o]

2010-11-25 Thread Alan Cox
> but simply being more enthusiastic about accepting contributions doesn't > seem like a great plan (compare the code quality of nouveau, intel and > radeon to that of some of the out of tree drivers, for instance) I think that is a little naïve. There is a difference between vendors attempting

Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o

2010-11-24 Thread Alan Cox
> > See, this was exactly the problem here. It _was_ a freedesktop admin. > > And it was pretty clear that it was that from the onset too. Mailing > > fd.o admins, even if i could've dug up an email address in the split > > second that i wrote the email (heck, i even mistyped repository), was > > n

Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o

2010-11-23 Thread Alan Cox
> What would you suggest should be done next? Checking logs for traces > of this? Those which could reveal this information might be gone already. Looking for anything which is in the tree but not in or not matching the mail archive. Sounds like a job for a perl nutter 8) And chasing down who did

Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o

2010-11-23 Thread Alan Cox
> It's on a separate branch, not master. (Doesn't mean it's right, just > that it's not actually going to cripple anything or waste time for anyone > who doesn't ask for it.) And how many other un-noticed commits did this person make ? Until you know that you have to assume a complete compromise