[committee] Draft sponsorship letter to Sun

[David Adam]

> >> - we still haven't fulfilled our sponsorship obligations to Linux
> >> Australia. I am not happy for us to go pursuing more sponsorship until
> >> we've proved that we'll meet the conditions of taking people's money.
> >
> > AFAIK, this is blocking on two technical problems:
> > 1) sensible authentication (eg. LDAP) so we can set them as being
> >    part of the manbo-only group in our authentication system.
>
> Just adding them as local users wouldn't suffice?

I thought we'd been through this. /etc/passwd will be fine. We can either
assign usernames of form dev-001 or prefix chosen logins (with 00 or
something).

> > 2) marblefish deployment so we can handle developer logins

This is not so much a blocker as a potential speedbump - if we have to
change the way people log in in a month, then so be it. There are other
methods of allowing developer logins.

David Adam
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