Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: interesting conversation on policy versioning

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 08:31:38PM +0200, Wim Oudshoorn wrote:
> Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > For people who don't follow IRC closely, some nice discussion tonight
> > about the Last Big Feature:
> >   
> > http://colabti.de/irclogger//irclogger_log/monotone?date=2006-04-18,Tue&sel=119#l194
> >   http://venge.net/monotone/wiki/VersionedPolicy
> 
> I read both, but I am obviously missing some background.
> To be succinct, I don't understand this at all.
> 
> So what are policies?
> Because in a vague way it sounds interesting.

Policies in this context means things like, "Bob can commit to branch
foo but not branch bar", or in general even more complicated things
like "At least 2 of Jan, Sarah, and Alan must sign off on changes to
branch baz".  Or, "this key has been revoked, and replaced with this
other one".  Anything relating to trust and naming, basically.

-- Nathaniel

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