Re: [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Folios as a potential Kernel/Maintainers Summit topic?

Konstantin Ryabitsev
2021-09-17T12:36:58Z

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 07:14:11AM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> > I would caution that Google docs aren't universally accessible. China
> > blocks access to many Google resources, and now Russia purportedly
> > does the same. Perhaps a similar effect can be reached with a git
> > repository with limited commit access? At least then commits can be
> > attested to individual authors.
>
> In days of old, when knights were bold and cloud silos weren't
> invented, we had an ancient magic handed down by the old gods who spoke
> non type safe languages. They called it wiki and etherpad ... could we
> make use of such tools today without committing heresy against our
> cloud overlords?

You mean, like https://pad.kernel.org ? :)

However, a large part of why I was suggesting a git repo is because it is
automatically redistributable, clonable, and verifiable using builtin git
tools. We have end-to-end attestation with git, but we don't have it with
etherpad or a wiki. If the goal is to use a document that solicits acks and
other input across subsystems, then having a tamper-evident backend may be
important.

-K