Building Safety Into Our Work

[Zachary Mitchell]

On 05/20/2011 04:06 PM, Jono Bacon wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 23:04 +0200, Octavian Damiean wrote:
>> Having warning notices thrown everywhere sounds quite intrusive. It
>> sounds a bit like approaches that other operating system took which can
>> become quite annoying.
>>
>> This should come with an option to deactivate the warnings.
> Agreed, warnings are a cheap and cheerful approach - it would not
> require much time to implement, but could be annoying, and I think
> people could ignore them.
>
> This is why I wanted to see if there are any smarter ideas out there to
> solve this problem?
>
>> I would definitely help with the safety page.
> Cool - could you write something up and present it here for feedback?
>
> 	Jono
>
Someone earlier in the thread said something about threat levels.  I 
think that this is a GREAT idea.  We could classify things based on how 
far reaching their potential effects are, or whether a tweak affects 
something at a really low level in the inner workings.