fedora-docs-list Digest, Vol 6, Issue 25

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> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:00:06 -0700
> From: Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: Style guide
> To: For participants of the docs project <fedora-docs-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <1093021205.17095.7768.camel at erato.phig.org>
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> On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 06:07, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>> On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 21:34, Karsten Wade wrote:
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>> > * We don't want outside repositories or hosted draft documents to be
>> > seen _at_all_ as official, supported, backed-up, unrootkitted, or
>> > anything sources for FDP docs or SCM (software configuration
>>         ^^^^^ other than? (not nitpicking, just making sure I
>> understand.)
>> > management).
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> Bad idiomatic usage ... it should parse like, "we don't want outside
> repositories to be seen at all as official anything to do with FDP."
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> Still awkward.  How about:
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> * Because of concerns over support, availability, redundancy, and
> security, we don't want non-FDP doc or source repositories to be seen as
> "officially" connected to the project.  For example, if someone's SCM
> gets compromised and a rootkit trojan is loaded into document tarball
> ... well, bad things could happen.
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> Hope that is clearer,
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> - Karsten
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> Karsten Wade, RHCE, Tech Writer
> a lemon is just a melon in disguise
> http://people.redhat.com/kwade/
> gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115  5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41

If RH is THAT worried about contamination, then maybe THEY should release
SOME documentation...

You may not want the appearance of some site appearing to be 'official',
but I think that this is a little bit of a scare tactic.

Thousands of programs are released via apt, rpm repositories and yum...
ALL without the fear of contamination or appearance of impropropiety. And
all done with the help of willing participanting websites AND
ENCOURAGEMENT from the authors. MANY run with the sole support of the
webmaster.

Why is the thought of spreading the information such a fearful subject?

Brad