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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: project hosts, also "truenames"
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Tom Lord |
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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: project hosts, also "truenames" |
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Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:24:39 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:
> > Given that I've spent about a month now just trying to get a tar
> > bundle to an FTP site, I'm not holding my breath in anticipation of
> > the ability to make even the slightest tweak.
>
> What's the deal with that, anyway? I'd have thunk that there's a simple
> `upload a new tar file' button on the project maintainer's page, but I
> guess not.
The recent security breach events horked the entire world.
> Is there some known problem that has to be resolved before
> your tar-file can be added? Have your emails been getting ignored? Do
> they keep promising but never do anything?
Not ignored at all. Quite polite and even, dare I say it, privileged
attention. Just on "GNU time", that's all. I'm posturing a little
bit to make an out-of-band point -- which seems to have been made:
Today, in fact, brought some new progress. We may well be over this
hump within the next day or two.
> I know the savannah maintainers are probably overworked, but surely
> this only requires about 30s of their time, and not much thought...
Well, just as a generic observation -- 30s of "actual work" for someone in a
hub role can translate into a much greater burden than you might
expect. It's 30s of actual work -- preceded by some much larger
amount of thought.
> Grrr, I long for the old days when everybody just knew the root password;
> fucking moron script kiddies...
Yup.
% telnet prep.ai.mit.edu
login: rms
password: rms
$ ls
[....]
$ more .emacs
[... almost no output ...]
$ # figures.
$
Worked like a fuckin' charm (until it didn't). Giddy little thrill
for a boy-scout geek elite[1] in a much smaller internet world.
(And then it was "the password is on a whiteboard in kendell square"
and then after that it was the current hell. "Nothing succeeeds like
success" -- but also, nothing fails like success, either.)
-t
[1] "boy scout" sans the homophobia, sexism, and religous bigotry, of
course. "boy scout" in the sense of "Upright Citizens' Brigade".
- [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: category "truenames" [was: ANN: Linux Kernel Arch Repository], (continued)
- [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: category "truenames" [was: ANN: Linux Kernel Arch Repository], Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: category "truenames" [was: ANN: Linux Kernel Arch Repository], Robert Collins, 2003/09/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: category "truenames" [was: ANN: Linux Kernel Arch Repository], Tom Lord, 2003/09/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: category "truenames", Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: category "truenames", Tom Lord, 2003/09/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: category "truenames", Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/15
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: project hosts, also "truenames" (was RFC:...), Tom Lord, 2003/09/15
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: project hosts, also "truenames", Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/15
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: project hosts, also "truenames", Tom Lord, 2003/09/15
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: project hosts, also "truenames", Miles Bader, 2003/09/15
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: project hosts, also "truenames",
Tom Lord <=
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: project hosts, also "truenames", Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: category "truenames", Robert Collins, 2003/09/15
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANN: Linux Kernel Arch Repository, Paul Hedderly, 2003/09/17
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANN: Linux Kernel Arch Repository, Paul Hedderly, 2003/09/17