The trusted authors check is presumably intended as a security feature; but, as discussed on sage-devel at (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-devel/rSaesTu4MCE), it provides no actual security, because anyone with a trac account can set ticket "Author" fields to whatever they like. It also has the pernicious effect of making it harder for new Sage contributors to get their code positively reviewed. So I propose that this feature be removed, or at least disabled by default.
The trusted authors check is presumably intended as a security feature; but, as discussed on sage-devel at (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-devel/rSaesTu4MCE), it provides no actual security, because anyone with a trac account can set ticket "Author" fields to whatever they like. It also has the pernicious effect of making it harder for new Sage contributors to get their code positively reviewed. So I propose that this feature be removed, or at least disabled by default.