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Freeing web services with ForkolatorFreeing web services with ForkolatorPosted Nov 29, 2007 14:44 UTC (Thu) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270)In reply to: Freeing web services with Forkolator by smurf Parent article: Freeing web services with Forkolator
Hmm. Maybe you could do a copy-on-write approach to the site's data. When you forked the source, your copy of the source would also get a "virtual fork" of the site's data that would just use the site's original data until you changed something, then the change would stay local to the version that was visible to your fork of the software. I agree with smurf that the idea of letting people fork the software but use it to modify the site's data directly is unmanageably permissive. Linus doesn't let you directly modify his tree...
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Freeing web services with Forkolator Posted Nov 29, 2007 19:56 UTC (Thu) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link] Copy-on-write sounds like a good idea, except that (a) you'd need database support for it, (b) you still have the "anybody could read everybody's personal data and crack their passwords" problem.
Freeing web services with Forkolator Posted Nov 30, 2007 1:33 UTC (Fri) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270) [Link] Sure - I was assuming access controls would still be in place for private data and only talking about an approach to allowing software forks to work on communal sites.
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