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[Aaron Bentley <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 11/08/2010 11:54 AM, Henning Eggers wrote:
> The builders page would be one of the exceptions to that rule. It would not
> make sense to display a builder as "Idle" just because it is building a
> private branch. But it could just be displayed as "Building" without any
> further details. (Maybe it already does that?) I don't see how any information
> could be deduced from that.

There are degrees of paranoia.  You might be able to deduce that a
private distro was about to make a release if you saw that the builders
were suddenly full of private builds, for example.  I don't think it's
enough to be concerned about.

It seems like different entities want different types of privacy.  Open
source projects might want private branches and private bugs for dealing
with security issues, but they wouldn't need to hide the existence of
such artifacts.  For commercial entities, it goes beyond mere privacy:
they may want their artifacts, and even the existence of such artifacts
to be completely secret.

Aaron
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