[or-cvs] r12461: Stuff has been updated to reflect the change of maintainer. (in incognito/trunk: . root_overlay/usr/share/incognito)

Sat Nov 10 23:46:35 UTC 2007

Author: anonym
Date: 2007-11-10 18:46:35 -0500 (Sat, 10 Nov 2007)
New Revision: 12461

Modified:
   incognito/trunk/AUTHORS
   incognito/trunk/ChangeLog
   incognito/trunk/TODO
   incognito/trunk/root_overlay/usr/share/incognito/readme.html
Log:
Stuff has been updated to reflect the change of maintainer.
Corrected/added/updated some stuff in the readme.
Added TODO item about possibility to prevent being prompted about creating persistent home during boot on USB.


Modified: incognito/trunk/AUTHORS
===================================================================

--- incognito/trunk/AUTHORS	2007-11-10 21:19:22 UTC (rev 12460)
+++ incognito/trunk/AUTHORS	2007-11-10 23:46:35 UTC (rev 12461)
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
+Current developers:
 
-Pat Double <pat at patdouble.com>
-	Main author
-	Finger print: C31F D009 E379 DF75 BC7F  5378 EC06 3529 C54B AD26
-
 anonym <anonym at lavabit.com>
-	Contributor
+	Maintainer
 	Finger print: A43A 06A5 C52F 59C2 7ABB  B56F A7C1 2CC1 D0E6 4958
 
-
 Thanks to others for testing and suggestions.
 
+
+Retired developers (do not contact regarding current development!):
+
+Pat Double <pat at patdouble.com>
+	Project founder
+	Finger print: C31F D009 E379 DF75 BC7F  5378 EC06 3529 C54B AD26

Modified: incognito/trunk/ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- incognito/trunk/ChangeLog	2007-11-10 21:19:22 UTC (rev 12460)
+++ incognito/trunk/ChangeLog	2007-11-10 23:46:35 UTC (rev 12461)
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+	- Pat has resigned from development and passed on maintenance to anonym.
 	- Firefox 2.0.0.9
 
 03 Nov 2007

Modified: incognito/trunk/TODO
===================================================================
--- incognito/trunk/TODO	2007-11-10 21:19:22 UTC (rev 12460)
+++ incognito/trunk/TODO	2007-11-10 23:46:35 UTC (rev 12461)
@@ -72,3 +72,6 @@
 - Allow home dir on USB when booting from CD
 Allow the home directory on a USB drive (or other media) when booting from the CD. This will require an optional menu if more than one possibility for a home directory is found.
 
+- Never create persistent home option on USB
+Make it possible to to permanently decline creating a persistent home partition during boot from USB (otherwise this will constantly be halting the boot process).
+This easily implemented by a "lock" file, i.e. NO_PERSISTANT on the USB root, created by external-config-setup when the users choses to never have a persistent home. external-config-setup will check for the existence of that file before prompting the user. Also, there should be a readily available script which resets this available on the KDE desktop and in the fluxbox menu.

Modified: incognito/trunk/root_overlay/usr/share/incognito/readme.html
===================================================================
--- incognito/trunk/root_overlay/usr/share/incognito/readme.html	2007-11-10 21:19:22 UTC (rev 12460)
+++ incognito/trunk/root_overlay/usr/share/incognito/readme.html	2007-11-10 23:46:35 UTC (rev 12461)
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 
 <dt>Target User Base</dt>
 <dd>
-The target user is one who is using a computer that does not have control of said computer and desires to access Internet services. Examples would be a public computer in a library, coffee shop, or a residence. The implementation should provide strong anonymity with no configuration. It should be difficult or impossible, for the user to unknowingly compromise anonymity. Users requiring more precise control over the application and network configuration may be disappointed.
+The target user is one who is using a computer that does not necessarily have full control of said computer and desires to access Internet services. Examples would be a public computer in a library, coffee shop, university or a residence. Also, users not wanting to bother with configuring all applications appropriately (with respect to anonymity) could use __INCOGNITO__ on their home computers. The implementation should provide strong anonymity with no configuration. It should be difficult or impossible, for the user to unknowingly compromise anonymity. Users requiring more precise control over the application and network configuration may be disappointed.
 </dd>
 
 <dt></dt>
@@ -86,11 +86,11 @@
 <h1>Download</h1>
 
 <p>
-See <a href="http://www.patdouble.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11&Itemid=18">www.patdouble.com</a> for download links.
+See <a href="http://TO_BE_UPDATED">TO_BE_UPDATED</a> for "official" download links. Various development files (portage snapshot and stage3 tarball) as well as the current version of __INCOGNITO__ can be found at <a href="http://files1.cjb.net/incognito/">http://files1.cjb.net/incognito/</a>.
 </p>
 
 <p>
-The latest version of this document can be found at <a href="http://www.patdouble.com/incognito.html">http://www.patdouble.com/incognito.html</a>.
+The latest version of this document for the current relesase can be found at <a href="http://TO_BE_UPDATED">TO_BE_UPDATED</a>. The current development version of this document can be found at <a href="https://tor-svn.freehaven.net/svn/incognito/trunk/root_overlay/usr/share/incognito/readme.html">https://tor-svn.freehaven.net/svn/incognito/trunk/root_overlay/usr/share/incognito/readme.html</a>
 </p>
 
 <p>
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
 <h1>Contact</h1>
 
 <p>
-The maintainer of this distribution is Pat Double, email address pat at patdouble.com. Please put "__INCOGNITO__" in the subject if you contact me. I am open to suggestions and bug reports with this CD but please be considerate of my major technology choices, such as Gentoo Linux, KDE, etc. I have chosen these because I use them daily and understand how they work. I am not interested in getting into a discussion over why I didn't use some other Linux distro (or MacOS X or Windows), that I should switch to Gnome, etc.
+As of november 2007, the maintainace of this distribution has passed from the founder, Pat Double, to anonym, who can be contacted through anonym (at) lavabit (dot) com. Please do not contact Pat for anything relating to the current development of __INCOGNITO__. Feature requests and (especially) bug reports are welcome and should be sent to anonym, but please include "__INCOGNITO__" in the subject line to easy mail sorting. Also, please be considerate of any major technology choices, such as <a href="http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst">Catalyst</a> and <a href="http://www.gentoo.org">Gentoo Linux</a>, <a href="http://www.kde.org">KDE</a>, etc. These have been chosen because of the developers' familiarity with them and will likely not change ever. If someone would like to maintain a parallell version with, say, Gnome instead of KDE or similar that would probably work just fine. However, since the whole development process is centered around Gentoo Linux' Catalyst, neither of them are negotiable.
 </p>
 
 <a name="approach">
@@ -467,8 +467,10 @@
 <li><a href="https://tor-svn.freehaven.net/svn/incognito/trunk/root_overlay/etc/init.d/external-config-setup">/etc/init.d/external-config-setup</a></li>
 </ul>
 
-<h2>Persisted User Settings for a USB drive</h2>
+<a name="persistent">
 
+<h2>Persistent User Settings for a USB drive</h2>
+
 <p>
 When the CD is copied to a USB drive (see <a href="#createusb">here</a>) the user settings may be persisted across sessions. The home volume can be stored as a <a href="http://www.truecrypt.org">TrueCrypt</a> volume or unencrypted. For the Un*x savvy, the unencrypted volume is stored as an ext3 file on the USB drive. The file home.tc (TrueCrypt) or home.ext3.img (unencrypted) on the USB drive stores these settings and can be removed to reset to the CD defaults or copied elsewhere for a backup. You will need to do a clean shutdown (described above) to make sure your settings are saved. When booting from a writable media and there is no home volume you will be prompted to create one, you may choose not to do so.
 </p>
@@ -562,7 +564,7 @@
 <h1>Copying to a USB Drive</h1>
 
 <p>
-The CD may be copied to a USB drive. Why do that? USB drives are easier to carry, harder to break, and user settings persist between sessions. There is a program provided that will copy the CD to a USB drive and make the drive bootable. On the desktop after booting the CD there will be an icon for copying to a USB drive (on tiny right click on the desktop and choose "Create USB" from the menu.) See the /usr/sbin/create-usb script for technical details. Note the script depends on the Gentoo LiveCD structure, it probably won't work when run on another LiveCD setup.
+The CD may be copied to a USB drive. Why do that? USB drives are easier to carry, harder to break, offer file storage and persistent user settings between sessions. There is a script provided that will copy the CD to a USB drive and make the drive bootable. When booting the user is presented with the option to create a persistent home directory with optional encryption (see <a href="#persistent">here</a> for details). On the desktop after booting the CD there will be an icon for copying to a USB drive (on tiny right click on the desktop and choose "Create USB" from the menu.) See the <a href="https://tor-svn.freehaven.net/svn/incognito/trunk/root_overlay/usr/sbin/create-usb">/usr/sbin/create-usb</a> script for technical details. Note the script depends on the Gentoo LiveCD structure, it probably won't work when run on another LiveCD setup.
 </p>
 
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