Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Remove resume feature to prevent abuse?

2019-03-14 Thread John Sullivan
Ineiev writes: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 12:43:13AM -0400, John Sullivan wrote: >> >> What are the benefits to removing inactive accounts? >> >> I named one, which is security. > > I don't think I understand the threats in question very well. > I am not the

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Remove resume feature to prevent abuse?

2019-03-13 Thread John Sullivan
Ineiev writes: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 03:55:34PM -0400, John Sullivan wrote: >> Ineiev writes: >> >> > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:11:52AM -0700, John Sullivan wrote: >> >> On March 11, 2019 9:50:20 AM PDT, Ineiev wrote: >> >&g

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Remove resume feature to prevent abuse?

2019-03-12 Thread John Sullivan
Ineiev writes: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:11:52AM -0700, John Sullivan wrote: >> On March 11, 2019 9:50:20 AM PDT, Ineiev wrote: >> >> Actually, we wouldn't need a whitelist. > > By the way, should we blacklist accounts with email like '@mfsa.info$'? >

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Remove resume feature to prevent abuse?

2019-03-11 Thread John Sullivan
On March 11, 2019 9:03:32 AM PDT, Ineiev wrote: >On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 09:14:09AM -0800, John Sullivan wrote: >> >> Both make sense to me. Retaining old inactive data is a security risk >-- >> magnifies the impact of any database breach. > >I checked t

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Remove resume feature to prevent abuse?

2019-03-09 Thread John Sullivan
Ineiev writes: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 02:08:54PM -0500, John Sullivan wrote: >> >> The way I've seen other services deal with this is: >> >> * Set a policy about what constitutes inactivity (for example, no log in >> for 3 years) >> >>

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Remove resume feature to prevent abuse?

2019-03-06 Thread John Sullivan
f inactive for N years, or whatever) and put that publicly on the site. Gives more flexibility for quicker action later. -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: A462 6CBA FF37 6039 D2D7 5544 97BA 9CE7 61A0 963B https://status.fsf.org/johns | https://fsf

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [task #14586] svn import for gnustep-nonfsf

2017-07-20 Thread John Sullivan
The FSF has no such requirement or even preference. In fact, we have tried multiple times to get this changed, but some GNU folks prefer CVS. We do have painfully limited staff time, but if someone wants to implement other VCS for web pages, I personally would be extremely happy. We would not

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] SSH host keys for the new machine?

2016-10-30 Thread John Sullivan
on sv.gnu.org itself? The wider we announce the change, the fewer questions we'll get. -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: A462 6CBA FF37 6039 D2D7 5544 97BA 9CE7 61A0 963B http://status.fsf.org/johns | http://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF and support freedom at <http://my.fsf.org/join>.

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Permission issue in the audio-video directory

2016-06-09 Thread John Sullivan
n you try your updates and let us know if things are good >> for you or not? >> >> Bob >> > > Thank you Bob, John, Karl... The updates worked! :)) > It wasn't that easy, tho. I'm not used to uploading files directly. Awesome, thanks! -john -- John

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Email on fencepost hosed?

2016-04-26 Thread John Sullivan
l reports about anything to be in email, but to ask follow-ups, IRC questions on freenode in #fsfsys are welcome (I'm johnsu01, the sysadmins are nully and quidam). -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 61A0963B | http://status.fsf.org/johns | http://fsf.org/bl

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Web CVS server unavailable

2016-04-24 Thread John Sullivan
t's sysad...@gnu.org. webmast...@gnu.org goes primarily to the gnu.org volunteer webmaster team. -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 61A0963B | http://status.fsf.org/johns | http://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF and suppor

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Mailman lagging behind, again

2015-11-17 Thread John Sullivan
Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> writes: >> From: John Sullivan <jo...@fsf.org> >> Cc: savannah-hackers-public@gnu.org >> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 18:03:12 -0500 >> >> Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> writes: >> >> > Once again, mailman

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Mailman lagging behind, again

2015-11-16 Thread John Sullivan
n something > be done to rectify the situation? We're aware and are working on it, and are improving our alerts to do a better job notifying us about this. -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 61A0963B | http://status.fsf.org/johns | http://fsf.org/bl

[Savannah-hackers-public] Number of committers within a time period?

2015-02-06 Thread John Sullivan
. :) But also just whether it's possible. -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 61A0963B | http://status.fsf.org/johns | http://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF and support freedom at http://www.fsf.org/register_form

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Include the FSF fundraising banner in GNU Savannah!.

2014-12-28 Thread John Sullivan
Thanks, Bob! -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 61A0963B | http://status.fsf.org/johns | http://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF and support freedom at http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=8096.

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Decommissioning inactive projects / users?

2014-08-19 Thread John Sullivan
checked (= completely unused). and unanswered email pings. I would never go to the trouble of pinging people about sv accounts. I wouldn't suggest anyone do it manually. -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 61A0963B | http://status.fsf.org/johns

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Decommissioning inactive projects / users?

2014-08-18 Thread John Sullivan
wanted to know what the current state is (and learned that Sylvain had done a bit of this already). -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 61A0963B | http://status.fsf.org/johns | http://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF

[Savannah-hackers-public] Decommissioning inactive projects / users?

2014-08-14 Thread John Sullivan
Does Savannah have any policy/system in place for removing projects or users that are inactive? -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 61A0963B | http://status.fsf.org/johns | http://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF

[Savannah-hackers-public] [gnu.org #912039] Migrate gnu.org/nongnu.org from CVS

2014-05-05 Thread John Sullivan via RT
of load on Savannah in the past. With git's hook system (and better efficiency), this could help address that current problem -- changes would be pushed when they are made rather than doing polling. -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 61A0963B | http

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Migrate gnu.org/nongnu.org from CVS

2014-05-01 Thread John Sullivan
do our best to facilitate as it's something we'd love to see done successfully this year. -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 61A0963B | http://status.fsf.org/johns | http://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF and support

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Cleaning Up Contributors Wanted

2013-10-23 Thread John Sullivan
/questions. That sounds very useful, thanks for doing it! Once you reach point where you think it's worth it, we'd love to publish a short blog post at fsf.org from you announcing that the list has been updated and encouraging people to look there for ways to contribute. -john -- John Sullivan

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] our wiki status

2013-08-23 Thread John Sullivan
Can pandoc help you with the conversion? -- Sent from my Replicant phone with K-9 Mail.

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] ikiwiki on savannah

2013-08-19 Thread John Sullivan
. -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 61A0963B | http://status.fsf.org/johns | http://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF and support freedom at http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=8096.

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] ssl cert for savannah.gnu.org

2013-02-11 Thread John Sullivan
k...@freefriends.org wrote: John - the ssl certificate for savannah expires in a month. (We just got a reminder.) I figured it couldn't hurt to start the process now :). TIA. (I suggest getting a multi-year certificate this time, if possible.) karl Thanks Karl. We're on it.

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Projects for Android in GNU Savannah

2012-01-03 Thread John Sullivan
with Projects having dependencies on non-free software, such as Android drivers requiring proprietary firmware, are not permissible. -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 61A0963B | http://identi.ca/johnsu01 | http://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [invalid.nore...@gnu.org: [task #11659] Submission of Magia DNI]

2011-12-30 Thread John Sullivan
hosted there runs on a fully free operating system. -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 61A0963B | http://identi.ca/johnsu01 | http://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF and support freedom at http://www.fsf.org

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Projects for Android in GNU Savannah

2011-12-22 Thread John Sullivan
be an issue -- I don't think any Replicant devices have a working camera yet. The Replicant developers would know for sure, but IIRC, all of the current cameras require proprietary firmware right now. -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 61A0963B | http

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Projects for Android in GNU Savannah

2011-12-20 Thread John Sullivan
if the project works with Replicant -- that's the equivalent of our test if the project works on a free GNU/Linux distro. -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 61A0963B | http://identi.ca/johnsu01 | http://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate to join

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] fsf fundraiser is over

2011-02-10 Thread John Sullivan
/widget. The problem was that we haven't changed the widget back yet (I noticed it this morning too) -- so as soon as we've fixed that, it'll revert back to the nonfundraiser one, which is helpful to have there. -- John Sullivan Free Software Foundation Manager of Operations GPG Key: 61A0963B Do

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] FSF fundraising widget

2010-12-20 Thread John Sullivan
Michael J. Flickinger mjfl...@gnu.org writes: On 12/14/2010 12:51 PM, John Sullivan wrote: Savannah hackers, In previous years (last year IIRC), Savannah has displayed the FSF fundraising widget for the months of December and January, to promote our appeal and help raise resources -- some

[Savannah-hackers-public] FSF fundraising widget

2010-12-14 Thread John Sullivan
that again? The widget code is at https://my.fsf.org/associate/widget/. The slim version for use in the sidebar might be the best choice. Thanks, -- John Sullivan Free Software Foundation Manager of Operations

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Access to GNU projects' webpages by GNU webmasters

2010-12-09 Thread John Sullivan
Sylvain Beucler b...@gnu.org writes: Yavor, I clearly remember that at a point, I saw a communication from a GNU webmaster stating that it was no longer necessary to provide a way for 'www' members to access to per-projects webpages (www.gnu.org/s/*). I don't mind re-enabling this, but I'd

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah FOSDEM video

2010-04-01 Thread John Sullivan
Sylvain Beucler b...@gnu.org writes: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:46:47PM -0700, John Sullivan wrote: Sylvain Beucler b...@gnu.org writes: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:30:38PM -0700, John Sullivan wrote: Sylvain Beucler b...@gnu.org writes: A video of my talk is available :) http

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah FOSDEM video

2010-03-29 Thread John Sullivan
Sylvain Beucler b...@gnu.org writes: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:30:38PM -0700, John Sullivan wrote: Sylvain Beucler b...@gnu.org writes: A video of my talk is available :) http://video.fosdem.org/2010/lightningtalks/saturday/05-sat-savannah.xvid.avi also at http://www.youtube.com

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Need info from fencepost

2009-06-03 Thread John Sullivan
Sebastian Gerhardt sebgerha...@gmx.net writes: Hello, can anyone please confirm or refute that this project has been a GNU package. https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?9365 Yes, it's listed in the maintainers file on fp. -- John Sullivan Manager of Operations GPG Key: AE8600B6

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [la...@yahoo.com: Remove me from all projects please.]

2009-05-20 Thread John Sullivan
and the FSF... -- John Sullivan Manager of Operations GPG Key: AE8600B6

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [la...@yahoo.com: Remove me from all projects please.]

2009-05-20 Thread John Sullivan
Yavor Doganov ya...@gnu.org writes: John Sullivan wrote: Leo was doing quite a lot of work for GNU and the FSF... Not speaking about Leo personnaly... ...but that's a problem with nearly all volunteers for the big pile of unexciting tasks. They start with a truckload of enthusiasm

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Revisiting hosted wiki software

2009-01-06 Thread John Sullivan
an fsf.org login in order to edit pages. -- John Sullivan Manager of Operations GPG Key: AE8600B6

[Savannah-hackers-public] [Sharif Oerton via RT] [gnu.org #382445] Volunteering to help with Savannah

2008-10-15 Thread John Sullivan
PHP code (I have about two years' experience with PHP). I hope that you will email me back with more information as to how I might best help. Regards, Sharif Oerton ---End Message--- -- John Sullivan Manager of Operations GPG Key: AE8600B6

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] any need for a perl monger?

2008-09-25 Thread John Sullivan
evaluations. Has anyone followed up with him? -- John Sullivan Manager of Operations GPG Key: AE8600B6

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] coordination

2008-09-25 Thread John Sullivan
not what I did. I wrote to to Jeffrey asking if he would also be willing to help with project reviews. I did not *tell* him to do anything. When Jeffrey said he would also be happy to help with that, I then followed up with SteveR on #savannah to pass that information on. -- John Sullivan Manager

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #375671] Savannah volunteer work

2008-09-12 Thread John Sullivan
know how you can best help. One thing in particular that would be helpful is if you can spend some time each week reviewing and approving or responding to new project submissions to Savannah. This isn't such glamorous work but it is critical and is the biggest bottleneck right now. -- John

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] SSL certificates

2008-09-12 Thread John Sullivan
://savannah.gnu.org (and ...nongnu.org) to have certs from there (or somewhere) as well. But it's not up to me. Sylvain, John? I've put in the order for both savannah.gnu.org and savannah.nongnu.org. So I hope we'll get them soon. -- John Sullivan Manager of Operations GPG Key: AE8600B6

[Savannah-hackers-public] [chetan tandon via RT] [gnu.org #369218] Savannah

2008-07-30 Thread John Sullivan
chetan. thanks and regards, tandon c.c ---End Message--- -- John Sullivan Manager of Operations GPG Key: AE8600B6

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Suggestions for sidebar links

2008-06-18 Thread John Sullivan
. Now Developer Info is gone altogether. See what you think ... I like -- now what did people think about removing the This Page section? -- John Sullivan Manager of Operations GPG Key: AE8600B6

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Suggestions for sidebar links

2008-06-16 Thread John Sullivan
Sylvain Beucler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, A couple caveats: On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 11:11:15AM -0400, John Sullivan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes: I think the GNU Task List item should be removed, since it's a subset of Help GNU. Seems like Dev Documentation

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Suggestions for sidebar links

2008-06-09 Thread John Sullivan
Reload is achieved via browser controls, no need for a link there. We need a 2008 year in the copyright footer :). -- John Sullivan Manager of Operations GPG Key: AE8600B6

[Savannah-hackers-public] Suggestions for sidebar links

2008-06-05 Thread John Sullivan
around to the resources they need to get around to. I'd suggest removing that whole section. Thoughts? -- John Sullivan Manager of Operations GPG Key: AE8600B6

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Suggestions for sidebar links

2008-06-05 Thread John Sullivan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Gonzalez V.) writes: John Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I think that a couple of the sidebar links on the front page under GNU Project can probably go. The events link in particular points to a very outdated page. The mirrors link

[Savannah-hackers-public] [turha_chan...@emc.com via RT] [gnu.org #361190] Helping Savannah

2008-05-01 Thread John Sullivan
hosted there. Could you please let me know more in details as to what is the requirements? Thanks in advance, Shekhar. ---End Message--- -- John Sullivan Manager of Operations GPG Key: AE8600B6

[Savannah-hackers-public] [Sahid Ferdjaoui via RT] [gnu.org #360924] PHP developer for savanah

2008-04-28 Thread John Sullivan
Ferdjaoui -- ~sahid http://sahid.funraill.org ---End Message--- -- John Sullivan Manager of Operations GPG Key: AE8600B6

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: Recordings of my speeches

2006-11-28 Thread John Sullivan
-video.gnu.org, right? -- John Sullivan Program Administrator| Phone: (617)542-5942 x23 51 Franklin Street, 5th Fl. | Fax: (617)542-2652 Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA| GPG: AE8600B6

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: Mailman upgrade

2006-03-03 Thread John Sullivan
a status update soon. I'm going to hold off getting the answers to the questions here because of that --- should be something posted at www.fsf.org/news or www.fsf.org/blogs in the near future. I'll ping back to this thread when the info is up. -- John Sullivan Program Administrator| Phone: (617