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+## Reliability requirements
+
+These features are considered critical for a Vervis instance to be a reasonably
+reliable place where people can host their projects and repos, and not worry
+about some bug or missing feature causing loss of data or access.
+
+    [ ] Password reset, at least over plain email, either automatically or a
+        temporary manual hack which will work at least for personal instances
+    [ ] Git pull and push over SSH fully working
+    [ ] Darcs pull and push over SSH fully working
+    [ ] SSH server implementation really secure
+    [ ] TLS support, especially critical when sending passwords
+    [ ] Darcs pull over HTTP and HTTPS
+    [ ] Git pull over HTTP and HTTPS
+    [ ] Clear policy and guidelines for DB schema changes
+    [ ] Running instance has data backups
+
 ## Installation
 
 See `INSTALL.md`. To be honest, I haven't written it yet. Just use `stack