Kevin's musings

Just a friendly reminder: If you are a Fedora account system account holder, and haven’t changed your password and uploaded a new ssh key since we announced the mandatory change, you best do so NOW. The deadline is 2011-11-30 (only 2 days away).

If you don’t, you may no longer have access to groups you currently do (like packager, or sysadmin or ambassador).

Go take a few minutes, read the announcement and security information linked to it, and change your password and upload a new ssh public key.

If you aren’t a Fedora contributor, the information linked in our announcement is still a great read and may just help you be more secure on your machines.

Looking at a bug report today, I saw some pretty poor “bugside manners” on the part of a few people (including the upstream developer). There’s tons of examples out there of good bug report interactions and poor ones. I’d like to urge everyone to take a minute and think before posting that next bug comment.

Good bugside:

• Ask for facts. Program output, versions, exact behaviors
• Provide info if asked for it by others
• Try and see the issue from the reporters view
• If you find yourself unable to say something nice or move the bug along, perhaps you should refrain from saying anything at all

Bad bugside:

• Don’t pile on unrelated bugs. Open a new bug for a new issue.
• Avoid talking about “big picture”/design/philosophy. Those should go to mailing lists or the like, bug trackers are to track and fix bugs
• If you don’t have things to add about the specific bug at hand, don’t post

I’m sure there’s other good/bad rules. Anyone run accross any other common good or bad bugside manners they want to share?

Your blade centers are pretty nifty… however:

a) Isn’t there any way the remote console could just be vnc directly instead of requiring a java applet? Because the java applet has various issues and there are some very nice direct vnc clients available. It would be less hassle for you even.

and

b) Could you pretty please have servers pop up a list of boot options/items right away, even if it takes 10minutes to finish booting to any of them? Having to spend 10minutes staring at a java applet waiting for the 10 seconds I can press “1″ to get to the SMS menu is sure a drag on my time management. Especially when it doesn’t take the keypress and I have to just do it again.

Thanks!