Hi Roland, I would like to welcome yourself and Qlustar to the Debian derivatives census! Would you like to take this opportunity to introduce yourself and Qlustar to us all? https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/Qlustar It would be great if you could join our mailing list and IRC channel: http://wiki.debian.org/DerivativesFrontDesk I would encourage you to look at Debian's guidelines for derivatives: http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Guidelines You may want to look at our census QA page, some of the mails from there may apply to Qlustar. http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusQA I've made a few changes to the Qlustar census page: http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/Qlustar?action=info The page says that Qlustar modifies Debian binary packages. It is quite rare that distributions modify Debian binary packages. Does Qlustar actually do this? If so could you describe what kind of modifications you are making? If not I guess the page needs to be fixed. The page is missing a dpkg vendor field. It is important that Debian derivatives set this properly on installed systems and mention the value of the field in the derivatives census. https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Guidelines#Vendor Some of the Release files in the apt repository for Qlustar are missing the Valid-Until header, which allows clients to find out when active network attackers are holding back newer Release files. At minimum, rolling releases and suites containing security updates should have this header. With reprepro you can use the ValidFor config option. https://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat#Date.2CValid-Until I've added the Qlustar blog to Planet Debian derivatives which helps the Debian community find out the things that are happening in the world of Debian derivatives. http://planet.debian.org/deriv/ Next year the annual Debian conference is in Heidelberg, Germany. This appears to be relatively close to the Qlustar location, it would be great if developers from Qlustar could attend DebConf. http://debconf15.debconf.org/ I would encourage Q-Leap Networks (the Qlustar corporate sponsor) to contribute financially to ensure the continued survival of Debian and the success of the annual Debian conference. http://www.debian.org/donations http://debconf.org/sponsors/ http://debconf15.debconf.org/become-sponsor.xhtml I would encourage any attendees to volunteer to ensure the continued the success of the annual Debian conference, here are some examples of things that need helpers. https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/VolunteerCoordination I note that Qlustar is based on Debian stable. The Debian release team recently released a timeline for the freeze for the next Debian stable release. I would encourage you to review it and prepare your plans for rebasing on the next Debian release (jessie). https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/09/msg00002.html A great way to help ensure that the next Debian release working well is to install and run the how-can-i-help tool and try to work on any issues that come up. http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=837 https://packages.debian.org/unstable/how-can-i-help https://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help You might want to consider adding DNSSEC to your domains, TLSA records and SSL to some of your domains. SSL on the repository will help Qlustar users to obscure package names and version numbers from global active adversaries. You might also want to add HSTS headers. http://repo.qlustar.com/ http://q-leap.com/ Please feel free to circulate this mail within the Qlustar team. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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