On Jul 21, 2007, at 9:23 AM, Andy Levy wrote:
> On 7/20/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Karl Fogel wrote:
>> > Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@gmail.com> writes:
>> >> Erik Huelsmann wrote:
>> >>> I work in a financial institution. Users make mistakes. We
>> correct
>> >>> them, but the original error stays in the database, forever.
>> >> What would you do if a user included something in your database
>> that
>> >> would be illegal for you to store or redistribute to anyone
>> else? And
>> >> I doubt if your comparison really comparable in other
>> respects. Can a
>> >> user accidentally include a DVD image in a database update
>> instead of
>> >> a small change?
>> >
>> > I think you might be misunderstanding Erik's point.
>> >
>> > He's not arguing that it's okay for errors to stay in the database
>> > forever. He's saying that users make mistakes, and that even
>> though
>> > they can correct those mistakes for the future, the original
>> mistake
>> > stays around forever, and that's a *bad* thing. He's on your
>> side :-).
>> > (As am I.)
>>
>> I took it the other way. Financial transactions need a real audit
>> trail
>> so there's a good argument for saying that mistakes and their
>> corrections should be tracked forever.
>
> This is where I am as well. I work for a company traded on the NYSE,
> which means we're subject to lots of Sarbanes-Oxley review. My
> auditors would not be pleased if there was an easily-accessible way
> for people to permanently remove things from Subversion - they were
> absolutely giddy when they heard that that people (other than the
> repository admin, who needs to go to quite a bit of trouble) can't
> delete elements AND their history.
>
> if I lost this measure of control, their faith in my change-control
> procedures and monitoring would be shaken.
Making it a compile time option would fix that, no?
Dave
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@subversion.tigris.org
Received on Sat Jul 21 18:24:42 2007