Re: [gentoo-dev] Finger GLEP

[Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org>]

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I really like this idea for the following reasons:

1. Information about devs should be sourced from the devs home
   directory.  It means each dev can maintain their own data, and it
   avoids the problem of having a separate area of which devs need to be
   aware.  Using fingerd automatically meets this "requirement".

2. If we want to make dev information available on the web as well, it
   can easily be harvested (once per hour, as somebody mentioned the
   website is updated) from the dev's home dirs.

3. I agree with Tavis regarding the ease of using finger to lookup
   per-developer information such as gpg keys.  Using the web is not
   quick.

4. I think it would be fantastically easy to have a cvs project hosted
   in my home directory on dev.g.o with .plan etc. symlinks in the
   proper $HOME.  (For example $HOME/.plan -> $HOME/cvsroot/finger/plan).  
   This would allow me to have a finger project on my home workstation
   which I could then update whenever appropriate.

5. I believe that finger indicates the last time that the information
   presented was updated.  This makes it apparent whether a given dev's
   information is current.

It seems like a good (usable/maintainable/secure) solution to me, and as
Tavis has mentioned, it's already in use by a number of major open
source projects.

Aron

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