[gentoo-dev] Special request for maintainer / auditor of LiSt Package

[Jeremy Sands]

Let me preface this by saying that I am aware of the large amounts of 
bad blood existing between various Gentoo dev members and 'dma147'.   I 
was not poking around under the hood of Gentoo when things transpired, 
so I am unaware of what happened... and frankly don't care to know what 
happened.

dma147 has started a new Linux project --- linux-stats.org (LiSt).   It 
uses a client to poll files in proc and other such things to generate a 
statistical profile of the user's machine, and then submit this info 
(only if the user agrees to) to the LiSt servers, where it then compiles 
things into collective statistical breakdowns.   I would like to see 
this client added to the official tree, but that requires a dev to be 
maintainer and do a security audit of the client.   Given that upstream 
is dma147, this obviously isn't something most of the devs I talked to 
on Freenode... errr.... "jumped at" so to speak.   So I'm asking here if 
anybody is willing to do this.   If necessary I will serve as middle man 
between bugzilla and upstream if that's the only way to see this 
through.   I think it a shame and unfair to the end user for this not to 
be included just because of some spat between devs.

The details of LiSt:

All information is submitted anonymously as far as I can tell.  By 
default nothing is submitted without the user's approval.  The user can 
create a "public profile" page at linux-stats.org, but by default that 
is disabled.   As far as I can tell, almost everything is attained 
simply by polling appropriate files within /proc (meaning this client is 
severely crippled for people using user mode kernels). 

The valuable end result is:
- An *accurate* database of hardware, generated from lspci polling by 
client, where users can rate how it performs under Linux.  This would be 
of alot of use to me when building machines for myself and clients to 
assure the best Linux experience possible.
- My inner geek loves truck loads of stats for how things are being 
deployed as a whole... window managers, file systems, etc.   If adopted 
wide scale, it would be arguably the most accurate source of statistics 
for kernel/fs/wm adoption etc.

If anybody is willing to become maintainer and perform an audit, please 
reply.   If anybody has questions, I have been temporarily voiced in 
#gentoo-dev under the name GTswagger ... I will try to help answer your 
questions as best I can if I'm around.

- Jeremy Sands
CS Undergrad, University of South Carolina
Columbia/NCAAbbs LUG
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