> the incubator will need to be able to tell incubatees the apache resources
> at their disposal and the limits beyond which use of these resources
> becomes abuse.
> i'd like to this kind of information provided to all new committers and
> also be made available for existing committers.
When I got my account, one of the first things I did was ask the long time
Committers on the project about AUP. What came back was "AFAIK you can do
pretty much anything relevant with the acc on "icarus" (cvs server) I don't
know whether there are quotas or what. In particular its OK to read pretty
much anything, like /home/cvs/avail for instance. Best to avoid heavy
processing, just be considerate. The principle is that if we've been
elected we're considered to be trusted until proven otherwise, and AFAIK
no-one has (yet) caused any major grief."
I took a guess regarding .forward and public_html (but I wonder if Windows
users would know about them), and played with CVS and ssh to get it all
working with public keys. Sent e-mail to Brian detailing my experience,
which appears to have been incorporated into the Committers FAQ by someone
with a more clever hand at perl than I.
I think that getting guidelines to use shared systems is at least good
manners. And providing them just makes sense.
--- Noel
