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[Robert Collins <robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At the Epic, I recall Robert questioning the need for partial access
> to a private project, such as, say, granting someone access to a bug
> report.
>
> His concern was that the data model required to support such a thing
> would be too complex for end users to follow, and would be too slow
> for us to check.

I mentioned that arbitrary freeform ACLs are very hard to tune and
scale : specific uses like we've discussed are less prone to
death-by-genericism.