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