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On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 07:07:53PM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: |
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> Currently, we only need to set a proper message in ~/.away (as talked in |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/roll-call/devaway.xml ) when |
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> becoming "devaway". |
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Related to integration of that, I would like opinions on moving some |
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data from developer home directories into LDAP. I already placed the SPF |
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data straight into LDAP, since I needed to be able to reach it from |
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another machine anyway. |
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All of them would be usable writable, and other access settings are |
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listed below: |
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- .away - world readable (gentooDevAway) |
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- .plan - world readable (gentooDevPlan) |
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- .asmtp - readable by mail system only. (gentooMailPasswd) |
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- .forward - readable by mail system only. (gentooMailForward or mailRoutingAddress) |
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- .permissive - readable by mail system only (gentooMailPermissive) |
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The following is the count of how many devs have files in their homedirs |
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matching "\.(FOO).*": |
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- .asmtp (44 dev) |
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- .away (71 devs) |
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- .forward (218 devs) |
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- .permissive (10 devs) |
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- .plan (1 dev) |
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The mail stuff is important to the mail development plans in |
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Infrastructure. Specifically we want to move inbound SMTP _off_ |
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dev.gentoo.org, and have multiple machines around the globe to handle |
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the load. |
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Pros: |
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- we gain tracked history of what these values are. |
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- They can be directly accessed from all infrastructure machines. |
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- Faster propagation of changes to .away and mail settings. |
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- Ability to split woodpecker/dev.g.o up, and have an EU dev machine, |
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and a US dev machine. (If mail isn't being forwarded outside of our |
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systems, you would put in ${USERNAME}@eu.dev.gentoo.org. |
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Cons: |
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- developers get changes to LDAP wrong already. |
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= I counter that they ALSO change the wrong filenames and wonder why |
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there is no effect. I counted a large number of '.permissave', |
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'.devaway' and '.asmtppasswd' files. |
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- complaints that LDAP is too hard to use. |
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- need to remember your LDAP password! |
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- increased dependence on LDAP... |
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Bonus plans: |
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- Maybe move mail aliases to LDAP? We'd lose comments :-(. |
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-- |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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