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[Michael Hudson <michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Westby wrote:
> On Thu Nov 19 22:15:02 -0600 2009 Michael Hudson wrote:
>> Recipes would definitely have an owner for access control.  Whether that
>> would be part of the URL/namespace is a separate decision.
> 
> I was thinking of a parallel with branches, but you are better
> placed to know what will work well.

Not really!

>> Hm.  At least making the manifest doesn't require running arbitrary code :-)
> 
> Now you say this, I need to look again. The 0.2 format supports arbitrary
> code execution, but I'm not sure how it interacts with manifest creation.

Heh.

> Also, there has been some discussion of handling private branches. After
> some discussions yesterday it is now clear that this is important for
> Canonical, as well as supporting private recipes.

Sure, that's not a surprise.  But not in the first rollout please :)

Cheers,
mwh