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Request for set up of kudos.debian.org
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| Jeroen Massar 2007-08-26, 7:18 am |
| Hi,
It is a Sunday sooo....
I was just setting up two NFS enabled boxes and was like "gee, those
need to be secured some way" and "portmapper assigns random ports, how
do we fix that", thus of course first query on IRC and folks say "there
is -p <port", thus of course I check /etc/default/nfs-common and what do
I find:
8<---------------------------------------------------------------
# Options for rpc.statd.
# Should rpc.statd listen on a specific port?
# This is especially useful
# when you have a port-based firewall. To use a fixed port, set this
# this variable to a statd argument like:
# "--port 4000 --outgoing-port 4001".
# For more information, see rpc.statd(8) or
# http://wiki.debian.org/?SecuringNFS
STATDOPTS=
--------------------------------------------------------------->8
Which is of course the completely correct answer and even better it even
links to a very valuable wiki page answering, for this problem all the
Q's I wanted answered after that.
Now, why post this to -devel you wonder? Wellps, there is a
bugs.debian.org where we can complain to all the debian developers that
they are making so many mistakes, peeping up all the time, breaking
stuff, wreaking havoc and generally making the users live a misery.
(Actually I can't recall at the moment the last time a package b0rked
something, thus they are actually doing an awesome job! ;)
Anyhow, thus what about a kudos.debian.org, this as a reverse of
bugs.debian.org, a place where people can say "Thank you people who do
this package, it is really great what you are doing". I am fairly sure
that developers love to hear that at least once in a while, especially
versus all the bug reports they get.
One could even make stats like 'most kudos' received, make an annual
'most kudos award' etc.... There is though one bad side-effect of that,
folks who are doing a lot of hidden grunt-work go unnoticed and won't be
getting any kudos for their work even though a lot of people are
actually using their stuff and most likely appreciating it. Another
problem is that finding out who actually did the piece you really like
is quite hard (unless there is a colored diff with 'who introduced this'
thing somewhere that I am not aware of and that the person who logs it
is also correctly crediting the right person etc etc) thus you most
likely end up crediting the package for it, while maybe someone not
directly related to the package has contributed that piece to the package.
Nevertheless, thank you Debian Developers and all the other contributing
folks for Debian!
Greets,
Jeroen
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| martin f krafft 2007-08-26, 1:21 pm |
| kudos.debian.org could be a nice addition to Debian. The way to make
it happen is to set it up on a machine somewhere yourself and have
e.g. kudos.debian.net point to it (any developer can do this for
you, I would but I am on a plane right now). Then, after you fixed
the bugs and got people's attention and the site is gaining
popularity and becoming more and more part of the project, you can
prod the administrators to move it to the debian.org domain and the
official Debian machines. It would help if you avoided PHP/MySQL in
the process.
--
.''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org>
: :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user
`. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info
`- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
"we did rate the microsoft security researcher as
less-bad than the people who prepare the carcasses for dissection in
biology laboratories."
-- michael moyer, executive editor of _popular science_
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| A Mennucc 2007-08-28, 7:22 pm |
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