[MacPorts] WorkingWithGit modified

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Fri Sep 23 15:33:07 PDT 2016


On 2016-9-24 06:02 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> I think we should be able to add build status to commits. Building untrusted pull requests is however an entirely different matter. We would have to set up a new VM for each build. It's conceivable, but nothing of the kind is currently set up or in progress.

Autobuilding pull requests should be a lot safer for base than for 
ports, and that's all we have automated testing set up for at the moment 
anyway. I guess it would still be possible to add malicious code to the 
build system or test suite that performs a DoS or something.

- Josh


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