PolicyKit: Branch 'master' - 2 commits

David Zeuthen david at kemper.freedesktop.org
Tue Jun 19 22:31:42 PDT 2007


 NEWS     |   16 +++++++++++++---
 doc/TODO |    8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

New commits:
diff-tree f126398c4129ffc6597716ca6451a8ed703ec91b (from 707402c1b90ceffd9dac37ace42d94c09c2e85cf)
Author: David Zeuthen <davidz at redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 20 01:31:38 2007 -0400

    update NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7e1b37f..1220197 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,9 +1,19 @@
 ==========
-PolicyKit 0.1 ""
+PolicyKit 0.3 "No Man's Land"
 ==========
 
-WRITE ME
+Released on June 20th 2007.
 
-Requirements for PolicyKit 0.1 "" (and git master)
+This is the first release of PolicyKit. 
 
+WARNING WARNING WARNING: do not use this software in a stable
+distribution; there are still security sensitive things that needs to
+be audited.
+
+Requirements for PolicyKit 0.3 "No Man's Land"
+
+ - dbus             >= 0.90
  - glib             >= 2.6.0
+ - ConsoleKit       >= 0.2.1
+ - expat            >= 1.95.8
+
diff-tree 707402c1b90ceffd9dac37ace42d94c09c2e85cf (from 5697a8dba0ff4b7cea9bd64d7abaaad9a96e834d)
Author: David Zeuthen <davidz at redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 20 01:10:47 2007 -0400

    add some more TODO items

diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO
index c0f0b1f..6bf1c62 100644
--- a/doc/TODO
+++ b/doc/TODO
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
  - Add missing details to the spec document
    - provide some real world examples e.g. how the example from
      the PolicyKit-gnome app works. Preferably in tutorial form.
+   - more detailed description of the internals, e.g. the dirs
+     /var/lib/PolicyKit and /var/run/PolicyKit
 
  - Clean up all man pages
 
@@ -29,6 +31,12 @@
 
  - Make sure API coverage is 100%
 
+ - Have support for systems that don't use the root account; e.g.
+   instead of authenticating as root, authenticate any user in
+   e.g. the 'wheel' group. Probably means we need a combobox in the UI
+   bits (e.g. PolicyKit-gnome + friends) for selecting the user to
+   auth as.
+
  - Go to 1.0 soon
 
  - Potentially drop the glib dependency (it's not visible in the


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