From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-01-16T06:23:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Hoe poisoned in Rubyforge

On Jan 15, 2007, at 02:59, Giles Bowkett wrote:
> Everybody makes mistakes, and everybody loses their temper. In fact
> since losing your temper is a mistake, the second part's redundant.
>
> On the upside, the whole thing read like a murder mystery.
>
> If the unit tests Ryan mentioned were automatically triggered by
> uploading a gem, couldn't that operate as a gate preventing this sort
> of thing? Wouldn't the best thing be to streamline the system so this
> kind of thing can't happen?

If you're working on project X that you don't normally work on, look  
for tests in project X and run those.  Don't test by playing with the  
live system.

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Eric Hodel - drbrain@segment7.net - http://blog.segment7.net

I LIT YOUR GEM ON FIRE!