[maemo-community] Council Elections eligibility list?

[From: Niels Breet]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 16:39, Tim Samoff <tim at samoff.com> wrote:
>> Niels Breet wrote:
>>
>>> NO! That is just about the worst thing you can do. Please don't send a
>>> list of all users with firstname, lastname and email etc over mail,
>>> you never know where that ends up. :)
>>
>> I beg your pardon, but that email address is pointed only t the email
>> addresses of the Council members.
>
> I think Niels' point was that SMTP & email transfer is inherently
> insecure, and that having the council access an authenticated HTTPS
> site to download it; or have their SSH keys added to the *.maemo.org
> servers so they could SCP it off would be better.
>
> Indeed, the latter should be done for the next council to avoid such
> bottlenecks. Not asking for root, but user account access to perform
> such extractions and run things is pretty essential.

Totally agree with this. Don't want to be blocking anything, but let's
use safe practices and common sense.

> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
- Niels