Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > > Ok, > > I just received this (probably automatic) email message from "Jeff Covey > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" about talking care of the Cocoon entry in > FreshMeat. > > Now, let me say I don't use Freshmeat even if I'm a big fan of it and it > is a shame, IMO, that Cocoon is ranked as shit while Avalon is ranked > 5th (yes, people, 5!!) in the whole freshmeat tree. > > [well, having started both, I'm very proud anyway, but I'm kinda sad for > Cocoon's rating] > > But this is mainly due to the fact that I *never* *ever* updated that > entry... mainly because I didn't even enter it. > > The story is that some other user (back in the Cocoon 1.3/1.4 days) > submitted the entry and went away. Without even telling us! I had to go > thru hoops with the freshmeat guys to change the maintainer of that > entry to me and remove that person (I don't even remember who he was). > > Now, I'd be *VERY* happy to pass over the hand to somebody else who is > willing to keep the project entry alive and not vegetating as it is > right now. > Great!!
> This should be done along with Cocoon 2.0 final to show the renewed > development life of this project. > > What do you think? any committer volunteering for this? > As this should be synced with the release, the person assembling the distribution should/could do this best. As this is currently me....if noone is against it, I volunteer for it. Carsten > jeff covey wrote: > > > > I'm writing in reference to the project "Cocoon". > > > > Your email address listed as the contact address for this project on > > our listing at: > > > > http://freshmeat.net/projects/cocoon/ > > > > You may have submitted this project to us yourself, or someone who > > uses your project may have done so. Since the time this project was > > submitted to us, many new features have been added to our site, and > > this listing needs to be updated. In particular, we've adopted a new > > categorization system which allows much more fine-grained organization > > of projects. Since your project has never been recategorized under > > this system, our readers aren't finding your project when they browse > > through categories where it should be listed. > > > > We'd like to ask you to take just a few minutes to recategorize your > > project. You should delete any categories which begin with "Old > > Appindex" -- these categories will be removed from freshmeat soon -- > > and add all of the new categories which apply to your project. (To do > > this, you may have to create a user account for yourself if you don't > > already have one, and you may have to first click the "change owner" > > link to claim ownership of your project, as freshmeat did not > > originally have a concept of project ownership, and your project may > > be listed as being owned by "N/A". Once one of our staff has approved > > your ownership of the project, you'll be able to submit any changes > > you want to make to it.) > > > > To recategorize your project, click on the link labeled "Trove > > categories". While you're on your project's page, please also take a > > moment to make sure everything else is up-to-date, including all the > > links and descriptions. There are many new features you may want to > > take advantage of, from linking your project to other projects on > > which it depends, to listing multiple project leaders and their roles, > > to creating multiple branches for different parts of your project's > > tree (such as "Stable" and "Development"). > > > > If you have any problems, please take a look at our list of Frequently > > Asked Questions at http://freshmeat.net/faq/. If your question isn't > > answered there, please let us know at http://freshmeat.net/contact/. > > > > Please do not reply to this message directly, as your reply will go > > only to me personally, and I will only be able to help you when I have > > time to do so. If you use our form at http://freshmeat.net/contact/, > > your message will go into our request tracking system, where one of > > eight people can help you. I'm sorry to repeat myself, but the last > > time I sent one of these messages, I had several hundred help requests > > in my inbox in a few hours. So, again, the URL is > > http://freshmeat.net/contact/. Thanks. :) > > > > And thanks, as always, for listing your project in our database. If > > we can be of any help to you, just let us know. (At > > http://freshmeat.net/conta... No, I said that... :) > > > > Sincerely, > > Jeff Covey > > > -- > Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be > able to give birth to a dancing star. > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Friedrich Nietzsche > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
