On Wednesday, November 17, 2010 04:38:53 pm Dustin Kirkland wrote: > Q: Why not default the cursor on that question to "No", instead of "Yes"? > A: That totally bypasses the value of this proposal, and is only > microscopically better than what we currently have ...
Dustin, I think this seriously under values the many benifits of your proposal. The concern I have with defaulting a new question to yes the first time it appears is that if someone has a standard preseed they are using this will change what they get installed and they will never see the question (If I understand how all this works correctly and that's not certain). If we are going to change the no open ports by default policy (and I think your proposal would do that), I think we should not be in a great rush to do that. I would propose that the question should at least exist in an LTS release with a conservative default (no in this case) before defaulting to the less conservative default. My thought would be to do all as you propose, except leave it as default No for now and then consider swtiching to yes in 12.10. I know that's a longer timeline than you'd prefer, but I think it pays to be conservative in how we approach this. BTW, given the number of knocks I see on the door at port 22, this is very much not like the gorrilla thing. Scott K -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
