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Re:Trust is good, control is better: Reproducible builds at ... by rectang on Saturday July 20, 2019 @10:13AM (#20485858)
> what happens if Ciaran no longer works on the project?

You get a situation like QuadrigaCX when CEO Gerald Cotten passed away and 190 USD in bitcoin became unavailable.

https://www.quadrigacxtrustee.com/

Or, to address the problem, something like Shamir's Secret Sharing algorithm could help.

Re:Trust is good, control is better: Reproducible builds at ... by MaxBarraclough on Saturday July 20, 2019 @12:45PM (#20486827)
Re:Trust is good, control is better: Reproducible builds at ... by Avamander on Saturday July 20, 2019 @12:21PM (#20486633)
I don't know why the downvotes, the bus factor in this case is 1 and that's horrible.
Re:Trust is good, control is better: Reproducible builds at ... by codewiz on Saturday July 20, 2019 @03:03PM (#20487658)
Where does HN display the downvote count for a post?
Re:Trust is good, control is better: Reproducible builds at ... by vinceguidry on Saturday July 20, 2019 @05:36PM (#20488534)
You can get a sense for how much a post is being downvoted by the shade of gray the post is displayed with. The closer to white, the more downvotes. HN stopped greying out your own posts, so it's not easy to determine exactly how the behavior is implemented.

Personally, I find the greying of a post on even a single downvote to be quite unfortunate and easily abused. I feel a post should only start greying on the second downvote.

Re:Trust is good, control is better: Reproducible builds at ... by brewdad on Saturday July 20, 2019 @06:53PM (#20488832)
I find it useful and will upvote gray posts that I feel have been downvoted over disagreement rather than truly deserving the downvote. It's probably my most common reason for upvoting.
Re:Trust is good, control is better: Reproducible builds at ... by akerl_ on Sunday July 21, 2019 @06:10AM (#20490678)
It’s potentially worth noting that downvoting over disagreement is considered in-line with the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17996858
Re:Trust is good, control is better: Reproducible builds at ... by ardani on Saturday July 20, 2019 @04:42PM (#20488244)
I don't think downvote counts are shown, even to high-karma posters.