[Freedombox-discuss] Some advice on moving Plinth forward?

[Melvin Carvalho]

On 11 February 2012 15:34, James Vasile <vasile at freedomboxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:47:46 +1100, Daniel Bryan <danbryan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Not sure whether I've actually posted to the list before but I've been
>> closely following FreedomBox since late 2010.
>>
>> I got a chance to talk to Bdale a little at Linux Conf. Au 2012 and I
>> decided to have a go at hacking on Plinth.
>>
>> I'm keen to get started, and I've been discussing it with Alistair
>> Davidson, who's a UX guy.
>>
>> Basically we want to rapidly prototype a simple end-user service
>> configuration system. Does anyone have an idea of what it'd be really good
>> to get up and running? Web server? Routing? GPG / other ident. stuff?
>
> My 0.1 list is basic router config.  We're also going to need some kind
> of user/group ACL interface.  And we need a way to add friends
> (identified by GPG keys) and metadata about them (e.g. petnames).
>
> That's a big enough bite that I hesitate to add more.

Is there a universal way of identifying a GPG key other than PEM/DER?
Do you sometimes use fingerprint?

I wonder if you've considered using the digest URI scheme di:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hallambaker-digesturi-02

I'm doing a lot of work on the Web lately with ACLs and URIs.  Of
course there's already http:// and mailto: and acct: (webfinger) to
describe URLs and email like ids.

I'd be interested to hear how it may be possible integrate GPG stuff.

>
>>
>> We'll eventually need to have some kind of spec for how a developer can
>> come along and contribute the configuration builder for a given service to
>> Plinth in a standard format, but for now I think it'd be best to focus on
>> usability and user experience.
>
> Agreed.
>
>>
>> Has anyone else been looking particularly at this stuff? I'm sort of a bit
>> lost for a start, but I have spare time and I reckon I'm a pretty killer
>> Python dev so if I can get some direction to push me over the edge that'd
>> be great :)
>
> I'm fairly focused on the above list as a starting point, but if you
> have suggestions for other things, I'm open to them too.  There's a
> visual list and you can post designs there if you want.  We could also
> schedule a time to meet on IRC to hash out some stuff in real time.
>
> Best regards,
> James
>
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