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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