On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 3:48 PM, Matt Benson <mbenson(a)apache.org> wrote:
I think the issue is that Guillaume and I are viewing the group
sequence
as a simple, ordered set of instructions, whereas you, Gunnar, are viewing
it more as a dependency graph. I will confess that I am having difficulty
rising to your challenge of providing an example that would be indisputably
cyclical without having sat down at a computer or with pen and paper to
postulate one. In the meantime I wonder if there is anything in the spec to
encourage this "dependency graph" interpretation of what a group sequence
is. Having said that, it is probably true that a user who had set up such a
situation as this had done so unintentionally. OTOH, the second attempt at
validating the time consuming checks would be a noop in any case.
Yeah, for me, a cyclical dependency was more when you have a loop in the
group hierarchy.