On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 12:34 PM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
Dear ASF citizens,
I would like to propose the creation of the 'community.apache.org' web site.
Currently, some people have their apache homepage on www.apache.org/~name and some on cvs.apache.org/~name and some don't have it.
Why do people have their personal pages in the apache.org namespace? Is there
any reason they don't or can't have those pages hosted elsewhere?
This creates fragmentation and confusion.
I would like to propose the creation of such a virtual host so that all apache homepages will be hosted at
http://community.apache.org/~name
and
http://www.apache.org/~name http://cvs.apache.org/~name
are automatically redirected there.
-1
I am very much opposed to this idea. Apache is not a soapbox, it is a place
to come and work on cool software with other people who are interested in doing
the same thing. By putting personal pages up on an apache.org website, people are
implying that their pages are endorsed by the ASF, which most certainly is not
the case.
- o -
These homepages should at least contain:
1) short bio
2) picture (possibly funny)
3) sound file with the person pronouncing their name (so hopefully people will stop mispronouncing names! like mine, for example!)
4) interests and projects currently worked on.
None of these belong on an apache.org website. It would be nice if each ASF project had a list of contributors, with each optionally linking to their own personal website, but I do not think these personal websites should reside on any apache.org server.
It doesn't matter how you come up with that page/pages as long as it's reasonably valid HTML.
That page should be hosted on your "public_html" directory on your cvs.apache.org account (all committers have one, unlike www.apache.org where only a few do)
In the future not everyone will have an account on cvs.apache.org either.
-aaron
