[Nix-dev] Sidestepping the community builds trust issue?

[Michael Raskin]

>A web-of-trust type approach is what I have previously heard discussed. In
>the context of such an approach, I have three things to say in support of
>my proposal.

>3. In those first two points, I claim some advantage relative to a
>web-of-trust style approach. However, both ideas are fully compatible.
>Precisely because my suggestion makes no changes to the current trust
>model, it would be just as easy (or difficult) to add in a web-of-trust
>style mechanism afterwards. However, of the two, it seems to me that this
>idea has significantly lower barriers to full implementation in the short
>term, which is why I bring it up.

I think that web-of-trust model allows to get some benefits even when 
Nix builds are only a part of the computer's load. In that sense it gets
lower barrier of entry for contributors. But maybe there are enough 
teams who do have full-time Nix build slaves…