Emanuele Gentili blog

I’m pleased to annunce that people.ubuntu.com will be free for Ubuntu Members, and not only Canonical people.

In recent days after having discussed the matter with Matt Zimmerman (Ubuntu Technical Board), I was advised to raise the issue directly to Mark Shuttleworth and James Troupt.

My first email:

Hello Mark, Hello James.

I talked with Matt Zimmerman (and him say to me that the right road is
ask to you) about the possibility to open access from people.ubuntu.com
to ubuntu-dev members [1]; I talked to Matt about the last decision [2],
but i think that the decision is surmountable via mod_security, SELinux
(or grsecurity) and ssh pubblic key authorization for login.

Debian use people.debian.org/~${id}, gentoo too (i worked in gentoo
development and we used same method).

Its very important give the possibility to all ubuntu developers to use
this space for add ubuntu stuff and tools. For example: UTU [3], ubuntu
docs, debdiffs, dev scripts, google-custom (to optimize the search
results) and other stuff.

I think that is very important give this possibility to all ubuntu
developers and not only Canonical people.

trusting in your answer

Cheers,

Emanuele

[1] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-dev/+mugshots (nice faces :-P)
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Technical-2006-10-10
[3] http://thc.emanuele-gentili.com/utu.php
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Emanuele Gentili 	    | https://edge.launchpad.net/~emgent
emgent@ubuntu.com           | Ubuntu Security Developer
emgent@windowmaker.info     | Window Maker Developer

Key fingerprint: F4B7 0793 069A 217E BB9F 8925 E0AC 34C2 2201 1E9A
gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 22011E9A

After it, very fast reply:

James, Matt and I discussed this and agreed:

 - it's inappropriate to have something called "people.ubuntu.com" which is
   only accessible to Canonical folks
 - we can safely offer SFTP-based web page hosting for ubuntu members, using
   existing LP-hosted SSH key access

So, James will take responsibility for bringing up this capability for Ubuntu members,
and figure out how to grandfather the existing Canonical folks' content.

Thanks, Emanuale, for raising this!

Mark

Very good news, Thanks Mark, James and Matt this will be a new resource for Ubuntu Developers!