On 10/21/07, Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/21/07, River Tarnell river@wikimedia.org wrote:
i don't like this at all. such edits can reflect badly on the user whose tools are being edited (if the edits are bad), and although users are trusted to a reasonable amount, that doesn't prevent well-meaning but incompetent users accidentally breaking other people's things.
Excactly. I have been looking around in other user's code, and I can assure you that a lot of users do nothing to protect their passwords, sanitize their database inputs, etc. I personally would not want to have all users on the toolserver being able to write to my tools.
Not unless you disappear for a while and your tools break, that is? It's true, there's no reason at all to do this for actively maintained tools.