Re: "Action Items" From FUDCon?

["Jeffrey Ollie" <jeff ocjtech us>]

On 1/14/08, Jesse Keating <jkeating redhat com> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:26:40 -0600
> "Jeffrey Ollie" <jeff ocjtech us> wrote:
>
> > I think that the least disruptive option is to enhance the tag
> > checking script to prevent moving or deleting CVS tags that have been
> > submitted to Koji for building.  It's not a perfect solution because
> > CVS provides very weak guarantees of data integrity/consistency but it
> > may be "good enough".
>
> Except that you can just call cvs itself to do the tag manipulation,
> and that I don't think can be prevented.

Yes, which is why it isn't a perfect solution, but people seem to want
to band-aid CVS ("the devil they know") rather than move to something
that has a more elegant solution to this problem ("the devil they
don't know").

Jeff