On Wednesday, Jan 29, 2003, at 07:07 US/Pacific, David Reid wrote:
A blog (in the context it's being pushed now) is (IMHO) really just another
outlet for news on a project that should be readily available elsewhere -
which is an issue and a failing that has been identified before and one that
the reorg@ list discussed at length before this whole community thing came
into being.
It would be nice to have a blog-like CMS (like MT or Blosxom or what not) backending the news production so that RSS feeds and the like would automatically be there.
There's also some exploration in "shared blogs" serving as a discussion/collaboration forum. But seeing how well the wiki seems to be generating controversy, I'm not sure it's a good time/place for such an experiment here at Apache.
But, for personal blog use—independent space is easy to set up and use for blogs of a personal nature. I don't see the need to host blogs of the style of mine, or Sam's or Erik's or any of a dozen others of us. Therefore, I don't see the need to burden the ASF's resources with blogs of this nature.
- Should we select a Java based solution (the request came from jakarta-general initially), or anything else ?
Erm, unless I've missed something shouldn't this be a decision once we have
decided the above question? This sort of question on a poll could be viewed
as leading...
Dozens of solutions. Definitely a second order question.
James Duncan Davidson Coder, Speaker, Author http://x180.net/ [life live];
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