What Aspects of Open Source Projects Do You Avoid? 344

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 14, 2010 @03:49PM from the don't-you-want-to-cuddle? dept.

paulproteus writes "I'm a Debian developer and a part-time contributor to a few smaller projects. I do a lot of free software-y and open source-y things. Sometimes, though, I don't do them. I figure some other Slashdotters might have similar hang-ups — we contribute to a project, but there are parts that we really dread thinking about. So I wrote a post about having these hang-ups, and I made a place on the web to share how others can help your project. What are the parts that, in your projects, you would be relieved if someone else looked at for you?"

Comment Re:OpenPGP keyid (Score 1) 170

by kevint241 on Thursday September 14, 2006 @04:30PM (#16108319) Attached to: Digital Identities Now Available

You and I have OpenPGP keys and know that system, but the vast majority of the web users out there don't and aren't ever likely to. "Does not require public key exchange" is, for better or worse, a pretty compelling feature when trying to reach the mass market.

To attempt to answer your question a bit more directly: OpenPGP and i-names provide completely different things. OpenPGP is about signing and encryption, i-names (XRI) is a system of identifiers. Perhaps you would even use them together, adding your i-name to the comment or email field of your public key. An i-name is more like a URL than a key ID. Key IDs aren't really addressible by themselves.

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