From: "Sam Ruby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> James Strachan wrote:
> >
> > Incidentally we could get Maven to automatically generate URLs of the
form
> >
> > http://www.apache.org/~username/
> >
> > then it'd be the apache committer's responsibility to create either a
> > .forward or a html home page. How's that sound?
>
> It seems to me that you would generate a lot of 404's. And the
> consensus from the discussion that lead up to this prototype is that
> links should be explicitly opt in, and that people should be encouraged
> to host them off site (note: some expressed this in more stronger terms,
> others expressed a more tolerant view). Also, not all committers have
> access to daedalus, and some people have hosted other content there
> without intending it to be a home page.
>
> All in all, my suggestion is that if no URL is provided, then treat this
> as an indication that no further information is available.
OK. For now we can just hand-edit these URLs on a project by project basis.
One other idea. Maybe we could have an apache-wide canonical place
(hopefully in a little XML document) where all the locations of the home
pages of apache committers are kept. Then Maven could suck out the URLs from
there as a standard part of the build. Then apache committers only need to
specify where their home page is once and it follows them to any Maven-built
apache project (or other build systems like Ant or Forrest or other websites
etc).
We could maybe extend this canonical document to include a few other bits of
information about committers.
e.g.
<people>
<person id="ruby">
<name>Sam Ruby</name>
<organisation>IBM</organisation>
<url>http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/</url>
<location>...</location>
</person>
<person id="jstrachan">
<name>James Strachan</name>
<organisation>SpiritSoft</organisation>
<url>http://www.apache.org/~jstrachan/</url>
<location>London, UK</location>
</person>
...
</people>
We could then use this document to create a more detailed members.html page.
The above may seem a little over the top - I'm just thinking that lots of
apache contributors work on several projects and the chances of keeping this
information up to date for each committer on all their projects is slim.
James
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