On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 08:28:56PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > First, could someone tell me what NMU stands for? I see it on bug reports > and other debian places. > I was also confused by strange acronyms used in emails, so I started collecting them and wait until I figure out what it means. I have already made some progress, see below. AFAIK As Far As I Know No. Martin (Joey) Schulze and James Troup are behind AFAIK. [AOL message, delete at will] BTS Bug Tracking System [A simple solution here is to start using BTS in more contexts, but we should keep in mind how we're migrating.] CTTE So let's work on them. r3 is one, CTTE should be the next, -policy then, boot-floppies is another, -cd another, QA as well. FWIW For What It's Worth My opinion, FWIW: IIRC IF I Recall Correctly Incorrect. First of all you cannot remove DES and have everything linked against crypt() just "magically" start using MD5. crypt() has to be called with a special salt (first three char's being "$1$" iirc) for it to use the MD5 hash, otherwise it uses a 2 char salt with DES. IIRC, the hash returned is longer also, and thus some programs (ones that errantly use fixed buffer lengths for the hash) will break, badly if they unexpectdly get an MD5 has instead of a DES one. IMO In My Opinion IMHO In My Humble Opinion We should not let this anxiety (which IMO seems largely unfounded) dishearten us. That's not to say we should all be pollyana and pretend the project is perfect. Fear is a the enemy of rational thought and cooperation. IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion * IMNSHO introducing the grant callback into the NLM protocol was one * of the worst ideas Sun ever had. Except maybe for the idea of doing * NFS file locking at all. ITP This is even more true. When I recall the latest ITPs on -devel, I see, that there are some projects where a lot of maintainers want to invest time. With our current modell only one of them will do the work and has "the right" to upload the true debian packet. The other have to wait and see. LOL LOL! This is the funniest thing I've read all day! Thanks Joey! MIA Missing In Action (??) Unlikely, since the maintainer (and author) seems to be one of our MIA people. NMU Non Maintainer Upload (Upgrade?) Second if there has to be a NMU, it is common practise to ask before doing it. It seems as if doing NMUs is regarded as something bad. This is not what normally happens in the OpenSource business: If there is a flaw in a program everyone is free to change it and release his code. The only difference is that we have a centralised server where an official _working_ version is kept and the maintainer is responsible for a working package. OBPrivate OBPrivate: <--- I hope I don't have to explain what this means ;) PAM Pluggable Authentiction Module > It's quite difficult ... how would you check that an application can > be compiled with PAM support ? PITA Pain In The Ass Before someone flames me for putting reputation before security (hi Branden) let me say again that it would be a PITA to maintain the list and it would put the maintenance of this list in the hands of one or two people who would have completely arbitrary control over who is and is not allowed to join the channel. QA Quality Assurance LPB Low Ping Bastard I spent a little over a week playing around on with a 50ms connection to most of the West Coast servers. While it amounted to little more than a drive-by encounter comparing it to the time I've spent on dial-up, it showed me something I never truly grasped up until this point in time. I never comprehended how much of a difference being a LPB (Low Ping Bastard) really has on the game. -- Tapio Lehtonen Tapio.Lehtonen@IKI.FI PGP public key from http://www.iki.fi/Tapio.Lehtonen
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