Hi Dave, Regardless of the tool use and method followed, thanx for the effort! Improvement in conciseness and increase in volume of communication is appreciated.
Dave Miner said the following on 07/28/09 09:42: > Danek Duvall wrote: >> Dave Miner wrote: >> >>> Jon Aimone wrote: >>> >>>> I understand resolving the immediate issue for this community, but it >>>> occurs to me that other groups/projects/etc. could benefit from a more >>>> general solution to this problem... I presume the ON flag day/heads up >>>> page is manually maintained. >>> Yes, they are manually maintained, and I'm not in a position to throw >>> any more effort at this problem. >> >> Perhaps things have changed, but when I left the ON GK position, they >> were >> maintained automatically. There was some manual cleanup required >> from time >> to time, but the pages were maintained by a set of scripts that >> parsed the >> mail coming in to the list where flag days and heads ups were sent, >> modified and created pages as required, and did the synchronization >> between >> the internal and external copies. I imagine that's going to change some >> with the website redesign, but the general concept should continue to >> work. >> > > Yeah, I believe this is still true there. > >> Whether or not that's the right thing for this community is up to the >> community. Dave's proposed something similar to the ON flag-day >> page, but >> I could see an RSS/Atom feed being appropriate, either in addition, >> or as a >> replacement. The mechanism for populating either one could be manual >> update of a page, or a write-only mailing list, or something more >> structured. >> > > Were the XWiki opensolaris.org site in place, it appears we'd also > have RSS feeds of updates to its pages. That seems to be something > that the confluence instance used for wikis.sun.com lacks. Were time > not an issue here, I'd probably opt to wait for XWiki... > > As we know, the ON model is based on historical practice of email > notification on an announce-only list, with the archival mechanism > introduced later, and then extended to the community. In this case, > I'm preferring a workflow that emphasizes updating the community-wide > persistent history, and > providing targeted notification without requiring mailing list > membership. Either one works, but I think this proposal is > lighter-weight and scaled appropriately for this particular community. > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss -- ~~~~\0/~~~~ Cheers, Jon. {-%] ======== If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten. - Anon. -------- When someone asks you, "Penny for your thoughts," and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny? - G. Carlin (May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008) ======== -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: jon_aimone.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 274 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/attachments/20090728/ab7bc3ee/attachment.vcf>
