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> Hi all,
>
> re: yaim knowledge repository. Great idea!
>
> When sites first joined LCG there was a central CVS repository for the
> LCFG configuration scripts for each site. Rather than, or in addition
> to, a wiki, would it be possible to extend this to a YAIM CVS repository
> of scripts for each site? This would be more in the spirit of YAIM
> scripts as a "non ambiguous description of the configuration" than
> descriptions on a wiki page.
>
> Of course, this would have to be more secure than the LCFG CVS
> repository (or wiki). Updates to site configuration should be
> restricted to the administrators of that site and a trusted core team,
> and most importantly all scripts should be readable only by the core
> team and the set of all administrators of all registered sites...
>
> cheers,
> Owen.
>
Would it not be more in keeping with the distributed nature of the grid
to use Arch or DARCS rather than CVS. Gets rid of the requirement for
a "trusted core team". Not sure why you want to keep the scripts
readable only by administrators, surely you're not advocating security
through obscurity?
William
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