Re: Need a sponsor to upload #234303
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 05:25:05PM -0300, Everton da Silva Marques wrote:
> The usual description for the RULI package is:
>
> RULI stands for Resolver User Layer Interface. It's
> a library built on top of an asynchronous DNS stub
> resolver. RULI provides an easy-to-use interface
> for querying DNS SRV resource records (RFC 2782).
> The goal is to promote the wide deployment of
> SRV-cognizant software. RULI aims to fully
> support SRV-related standards.
> The distribution license is GNU GPL.
Excellent. Looks like an interesting package. Are you pushing various
upstreams to use this library? Does it have PHP, Perl, Python, etc
bindings? (That may be implied by your use of liboop, but I'm not familiar
with that package at all). If it has PHP4 bindings, you may have yourself a
sponsor.
> I'm violating the rules by starting with
> a library. That's because I could fail to spend
> enough time/dedication packaging an arbitrary package.
I don't think that a library necessarily can't be a first package, it's just
they're trickier to maintain, so if people are thinking "I want to package
*something*", that something shouldn't be a library. In your case,
motivation trumps any minor difficulty differences.
> Other problem so far I am unable to resolve is
> getting a DD signature to my gpg key. I could not
> contact DDs in my area (Brazil, Sao Paulo) until now.
Well, there are two "active" Brazilian DDs in Sao Paulo, according to
db.debian.org, another one is in Rio de Janeiro. And, more interestingly,
the Debian Travelling Show (aka Debconf4) is being held in Porto Alegre in a
couple of months time, where if you can't get a good 50 DD signatures on
your key, you need to get out of your hotel room. <grin> Whether you can
make the trip down there (by the small map of Brazil I've got, it looks like
maybe 700km?) I can't say, but it would be an excellent introduction to the
Debian community if you could.
> I have read about a scanned driver license as
> valid id. Is that currently feasible?
I'm not personally all that keen on scanned ID, as there's no real validity
that it's really you. After all, you could have found someone else's ID on
the street and decided that you wanted to impersonate that person online.
Without the reference between "photo ID, physical person", a photo ID isn't
worth a whole lot.
One thing I've been looking into a little is that of getting a notary public
in your part of the world to certify that the person who presented this
photo ID looks like the picture, that the ID appears to be a valid one, and
that they provided this GPG fingerprint for validation. Then get that sent
to someone else (hardcopy), who can hopefully take it to the embassy of the
applicant's country and get the notary public's mark validated. It'd be a
weak identification at best, but certainly a lot stronger than someone's
scanned photo ID (which could be manipulated trivially with the Gimp,
anyway).
Boy did I get off the topic...
- Matt
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