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Lance Albertson posted <1120000451.26017.7.camel@pursuit>, excerpted |
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below, on Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:14:11 -0500: |
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> Ok, after talking with a few folks I want to retract my comment about no |
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> shell access. I didn't think about the other groups (docs) that already |
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> have shell access and retain a simliar status as forum mods do in |
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> Gentoo. I'm just getting ansty about all these new people we're bringing |
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> on and the security behind it. Thats my main concern at this point, not |
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> whether your work is more or less than a regular developer. I just |
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> wanted to make that point before I had a flamewar directed at me :) |
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OK, I'm with you on the security thing (being one that would prefer a |
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USE=clientonly flag, remember, tho I understand the reasons behind not |
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doing it), but I DO know there's quite the occasional use for someplace to |
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host scripts, patchlets, and sample config files for reference from |
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forums/news/lists/irc, that I've personally found useful, that others |
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would like to see as well. |
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One particular example is my xorg.conf file, which I seem to get |
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requests for from time to time, when I mention that I have xorg running |
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xinerama on a dual-out Radeon 9200SE. It seems many have trouble getting |
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that to work, and an annotated working config can help tremendously. I've |
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been considering doing it up right and putting it on my web page. Sure, I |
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can put it on my ISP's page, but folks do change ISPs from time to time, |
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and for forum mods that are already staff, having a "staffspace" available |
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to make such things a bit more publicly available, could be /quite/ useful. |
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The form of the URLs such resources get make it quite clear that while |
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hosted on a gentoo server, they are in personal devspace/staffspace on |
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that server, so there should be little chance of confusion with "official" |
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packages, particularly if there's a policy in place (I haven't seen one |
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but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist) to clearly mark any HTML formatted |
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anchor tags with non-obfuscated descriptions and URLs. (The forum |
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software may or may not make obfuscated URLs impossible, I don't know.) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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