Re: Roadmap for 1.1

Branko Čibej wrote:
> IMHO one of the big mistakes we're making now is that we allow changes
> to revprops without an audit trail, i.e., it's impossible to tell
> _from_the_repository_ when ta revprop was changed, who changed it, and
> what the previous value was. That's a naughty thing for a version
> control system to do.

That's a new table in the schema, isn't it. ;~)

> Oh, there's another reason why ACLs can't be trivially implemented as
> properties -- it should be possible to prevent principals from even
> reading the ACL.

I didn't say that ACLs would be the same things as properties, but merely that
they would be similar. If you assume that ACLs are something like server-side
properties which are never directly transmitted to client, you have just solved
the security issue.

John

-- 
John Peacock
Director of Information Research and Technology
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
4720 Boston Way
Lanham, MD 20706
301-459-3366 x.5010
fax 301-429-5747
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@subversion.tigris.org