The sudo feature

Joel Peshkin bugreport at peshkin.net
Tue Dec 13 10:43:46 UTC 2005


Myk Melez wrote:

> David Miller wrote:
>
>> At this point, I'm kind of regretting ever approving that feature.  
>> But it's a bit late for that now I guess.
>
> I wouldn't say it's too late to back it out.  After all, we haven't 
> shipped it in a release yet.  If it hasn't been baked enough, it may 
> be wise to remove it for 2.22 and check it back in for 2.24.  Or, 
> since code hooks are ready to land as soon as the tree opens for 2.24 
> checkins, we could reconstitute it as an extension and bake it there 
> until popularity and experience make it ready for inclusion into the 
> mainline code.
>
Except that ... if you really look at the code, it only touches the code 
in a very few places and only if enabled.   It is vital for both testing 
sites and for testing bugzilla itself.   Justdave is over-reacting a tad.





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