Re: [Gimp-web] Re: [Gimp-developer] Status of the New Site

2003-12-31 Thread Kevin Cozens
At 03:14 PM 12/30/2003 -0800, you wrote:
 It is not as if people dislike the new site; the only thing that
 remains is replacing the old site with it.
One possibility for the short term would be to create a redirect from 
www.gimp.org to the new site.

Cheers!

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Re: [Gimp-web] Re: [Gimp-developer] Status of the New Site

2003-12-30 Thread Branko Collin
On 30 Dec 2003, at 9:48, Raphaël Quinet wrote:
 Branko Collin:

  What I don't understand is why the new site doesn't just
  replace the old site on the old server?

 I think that the goal was to move to a better machine (better CPU and
 more memory).  But for the details, you should probably ask Yosh.

I think the goal was to have a new website. If you want to move to a
better machine, you don't make a new website.

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Re: [Gimp-web] Re: [Gimp-developer] Status of the New Site

2003-12-30 Thread Raphaël Quinet
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 17:18:11 +0100, Branko Collin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On 30 Dec 2003, at 9:48, Raphaël Quinet wrote:
  I think that the goal was to move to a better machine (better CPU and
  more memory).  But for the details, you should probably ask Yosh.
 
 I think the goal was to have a new website. If you want to move to a 
 better machine, you don't make a new website. 

I suppose that Yosh thought that it was the right time to replace the
old machine, which shows some signs of weakness from time to time.
Anyway, I am just reporting what I read.  Don't shoot the messenger. ;-)
As I wrote above, ask Yosh for details.  I don't own the machine (*) and
I don't pay for the bandwidth, so I am already glad that we have
something even if I am as frustrated as you are that the new web site
has been waiting for the move since more than three months.

-Raphaël

(*) Note to Yosh or Shawn or whoever owns the new machine: I wouldn't
mind donating something for the memory, disk or CPU if this could
help setting up the new web site.  (Yes, this is a serious offer.)
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Re: [Gimp-web] Re: [Gimp-developer] Status of the New Site

2003-12-30 Thread Branko Collin
On 30 Dec 2003, at 21:47, Raphaël Quinet wrote:
 On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 17:18:11 +0100, Branko Collin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
  On 30 Dec 2003, at 9:48, Raphaël Quinet wrote:

 I think that the goal was to move to a better machine
 (better CPU and more memory).  But for the details,
 you should probably ask Yosh.

 I think the goal was to have a new website. If you want
 to move to a better machine, you don't make a new website.

 I suppose that Yosh thought that it was the right time to replace the
 old machine, which shows some signs of weakness from time to time.
 Anyway, I am just reporting what I read.  Don't shoot the messenger.
 ;-)

I am not shooting the messenger, but I also cannot help but notice
that you have write access to the current webserver. Yosh reads at
least one of these mailing lists, and has done so for the past three
months. Barring a disaster, he has had enough time to tell us why
things are taking so long.

I vote we don't wait for a new server to come along, because flying
pigs might bump into it, being disoriented from hell freezing over,
and then we would need another new server.

Please keep in mind that this is a volunteer effort. Yosh may have
had many good reasons to stay silent, but he did not mention it, and
his inactivity and silence should not be a reason to halt the work of
an entire group of dedicated developers.

It is not as if people dislike the new site; the only thing that
remains is replacing the old site with it.

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Re: [Gimp-web] Re: [Gimp-developer] Status of the New Site

2003-12-30 Thread Manish Singh
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:58:33PM +0100, Branko Collin wrote:
 On 30 Dec 2003, at 21:47, Rapha?l Quinet wrote:
  On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 17:18:11 +0100, Branko Collin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  wrote:
   On 30 Dec 2003, at 9:48, Rapha?l Quinet wrote:
 
  I think that the goal was to move to a better machine
  (better CPU and more memory).  But for the details,
  you should probably ask Yosh.
 
  I think the goal was to have a new website. If you want
  to move to a better machine, you don't make a new website.
 
  I suppose that Yosh thought that it was the right time to replace the
  old machine, which shows some signs of weakness from time to time.
  Anyway, I am just reporting what I read.  Don't shoot the messenger.
  ;-)
 
 I am not shooting the messenger, but I also cannot help but notice
 that you have write access to the current webserver. Yosh reads at
 least one of these mailing lists, and has done so for the past three
 months. Barring a disaster, he has had enough time to tell us why
 things are taking so long.
 
 I vote we don't wait for a new server to come along, because flying
 pigs might bump into it, being disoriented from hell freezing over,
 and then we would need another new server.
 
 Please keep in mind that this is a volunteer effort. Yosh may have
 had many good reasons to stay silent, but he did not mention it, and
 his inactivity and silence should not be a reason to halt the work of
 an entire group of dedicated developers.

The reason is simple. There is not enough disk on the old server to host
the new site.

I'm surprised nobody has taken the time to address some of the issues
that were punted for later (lack of a good Basics tutorial comes to mind).
Also, with 2.0 coming out somewhat soon, porting things to 2.0 would be
a good idea. None of these things require the site to be moved over first.

 It is not as if people dislike the new site; the only thing that
 remains is replacing the old site with it.

There are voices of dissent.

Also the news stuff is still broken since the move away from SSI (which was
a bad decision imo, SSI has a negligible server load and apache is really
not that hard to set up)

-Yosh
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Re: [Gimp-web] Re: [Gimp-developer] Status of the New Site

2003-12-30 Thread Branko Collin
On 30 Dec 2003, at 15:14, Manish Singh wrote:
 On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:58:33PM +0100, Branko Collin wrote:

  I am not shooting the messenger, but I also cannot help but notice
  that you have write access to the current webserver. Yosh reads at
  least one of these mailing lists, and has done so for the past three
  months. Barring a disaster, he has had enough time to tell us why
  things are taking so long.
  
  I vote we don't wait for a new server to come along, because flying
  pigs might bump into it, being disoriented from hell freezing over,
  and then we would need another new server.
  
  Please keep in mind that this is a volunteer effort. Yosh may have
  had many good reasons to stay silent, but he did not mention it, and
  his inactivity and silence should not be a reason to halt the work
  of an entire group of dedicated developers.
 
 The reason is simple. There is not enough disk on the old server to
 host the new site.

OK, now we're getting somewhere. Apparently you are one of the few in 
the know about the web server.

What can be done to remedy the disk situation?

I heard some story about a new server? How about putting a new disk 
in the existing server, would that be an option?

Is there any way that someone who is not in the inner circle can 
help?

Are you subscribed to the gimp-web mailing list, where the remainder 
of this discussion belongs?

 I'm surprised nobody has taken the time to address some of the 
 issues that were punted for later (lack of a good Basics tutorial comes to
 mind). 

Well, I have not tackled them because I was quite insulted by all of 
my work going to waste. 

 Also, with 2.0 coming out somewhat soon, porting things to 2.0
 would be a good idea. None of these things require the site to be
 moved over first.

That's true, but actually putting the site live would be the sort of 
token of appreciation that would actually spur me on to do something.

  It is not as if people dislike the new site; the only thing that
  remains is replacing the old site with it.
 
 There are voices of dissent.

What do they say? Did they post bug reports?

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Re: [Gimp-web] Re: [Gimp-developer] Status of the New Site

2003-12-28 Thread Carol Spears
hi,
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 03:46:05PM +0100, Branko Collin wrote:
 On 28 Dec 2003, at 10:33, Shlomi Fish wrote:
 
  What is the status of the new site (http://mmmaybe.gimp.org)? Why
  isn't it the default site yet? Are there any pending problems?
 
 As somebody who helped make the new site, or thought he did, I am as 
 baffled as you. 
 
 There are, it seems, several people who have write access to the web 
 server (Raphael Quinet? Shan Amundson? Yosh?), but nobody is willing 
 to tell exactly who can do what, and they all refuse (for reasons 
 they refuse to disclose) to put the new site live.
 
 
you will need to go through the sames steps i did.

1) figure out who runs the computer and what resources they have to
   allocate.
2) determine the information that the user needs and collect it.
3) write a mechanism to build the site that even the most inept beginner
   can make it at home (after some additional apache configuration that
   used to be documented there).

the site that i eh, collected, fullfilled all of these things and more.
if you cannot build software on windows that is not gimp dot org
problem, btw   that site has disappeared.

the current site can be reverted to fullfill the many goals or can
evolve (once again) to fullfill this, but the current site is a travesty
and a pathetic head up someones ass farce of the site that is there
and should not remain even a part of the gimp.org sites.  perhaps there
is room for it at gamers.org?  it seems like it would make a beautiful
addition to whatever they have there.

until then, the same steps i already covered need to be completed again,
one way or another.

or you can go by what dave neary says and wait for rapha?l to move it to
its new site.  oh, he will probably need to talk to the people who run
the computer about what they need, expect and the resources they have to
allocate.  once again, the same steps i already covered that can be
accomplished with a simple reversion to the site that is in cvs now.
back to may would be fine or even july.

my question is this.  if i had written better email, would i be allowed
to destroy things?

i was thinking about doing a number on the gimp cvs source like rapha?l
did to the site i designed.  would dave neary say that i run gimp now,
if i were to go independent and destroy the collective work as he did to
the web project?

probably if i write very sane email (spell check and all), i would be
allowed to do what i wish?

thanks for asking,
carol

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