Typosquatting programming language package managers
We've gotten flack from package developers submitting new packages to Package Control [0] because all additions to the default channel are hand reviewed. Part of this process is to prevent accidentally close package names, to try and encourage collaboration and to encourage developers to actually explain what their package does and how to use it.<p>My hope is to be automating a large amount of the review in the next few months, however I think this is a good argument for never having it be fully automatic. Having a human sanity check submissions isn't a terrible idea if we can keep the workload down.<p>Certainly this doesn't prevent a malicious author from posting a legitimate package and then changing the contents to be malicious, but that can be somewhat solved by turning off automatic updates.<p>[0] <a href="https://packagecontrol.io" rel="nofollow">https://packagecontrol.io</a>