[RFR] Infrastructure sponsor needed for Fedora Distribution App.

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Wed Feb 24 04:55:36 UTC 2010


On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, susmit shannigrahi wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, susmit shannigrahi wrote:
> >
> >> >> What is the difference between writing a script and maintaining that
> >> >> and writing an simple app and maintaining that?
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > Tons, in particular the number of libraries it depends on and the security
> >> > of exposing it to the net.
> >>
> >> I understand that. But given that we currently use a lot of TG apps
> >> and this one uses only python-geoip, python-sqlite, I am not too
> >> convinced about this argument on risks. It is really possible to make
> >> it secure when we are using similar other apps.
> >>
> >
> > Unfortunately you don't have to be convinced, we do.  There's a time
> > coming, sooner then we'd like to admit, where our tg1 / python stack won't
> > be so well supported.
>
> This is not a tg1. I would like to understand the problem here.
> Do you want it in php/mysql? You name it in any language that you
> want, I shall ensure you have it.
>

Couple of other questions, how many vendors are we talking about?

	-Mike


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