Twitter would be OK, but if we are serious about this, should be available by non-Twitter, too. Some workplaces (like mine) ban such things as Twitter (and Facebook and Flickr and ...).
mrg On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Robert Zeigler <[email protected]> wrote: > So, tapestry has a twitter feed; I don't recall which address was used to set > it up; possibly a novel/dummy address? It's set up with a "committers" list, > which seems to work pretty well. > > Robert > > On Nov 3, 2011, at 11/38:31 AM , Christian Grobmeier wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Andrus Adamchik <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> On Nov 3, 2011, at 3:35 PM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: >>>> >>>> A more concrete proposal: >>>> - utilize Twitter for interesting changes, builds anything which is to >>>> small to blog but shows activity on Cayenne >>> >>> I am trying to use my personal Twitter exclusively for Cayenne: >>> http://twitter.com/#!/andrus_a Need to promote it more as well (add it to >>> my email sig or something?). But maybe creating a project-controlled >>> twitter is better on the long run. >> >> >> A discussion recently was on board@ >> >> Bertrand Delacretaz recommended on twitter: >> "AFAIK we don't have a foundation-wide policy, what seems important to >> me is that any PMC member can get the credentials, in case the current >> owner of those goes away. >> >> It also makes sense IMO to coordinate "important" tweets (whatever >> that means) among the PMC members. >> >> I don't know if it's practical to have the private@ list as the owner, >> IIUC it would then get notifications of retweets and such which might >> be noisy. If you require whoever owns the account to use their >> @apache.org address as the owner's address, worst case we could ask >> infra to extract mails sent from twitter to that address for password >> recovery, if that person's not available anymore and the PMC needs to >> get the credentials. >> >> Just me personal advice, no official policy here." >> >> >> Shane followed up, recommended to respect the trademarks. >> That being said, a password shared between Cayeene-PMC members and the >> twitter account "apachecayenne" would make much sense! >> >>>> I am willing to help in this area and write blog posts. Either on my >>>> blog (which has up to 5000 unique visitors a month) or on the asf blog >>>> or both. But I need a bit guidances from the active developers, to >>>> spot interesting changes in time and to understand them quickly. A >>>> review of the posts before publishing would also not be so bad :-) >>> >>> >>>> - utilize Apache Blog for news >>>> >>>> In addition I would like to start some kind of "Cayenne series" on my >>>> blog. Lets say 1 medium sized article all two weeks. For this I need >>>> some input about current changes or things of interest. Or even proof >>>> reading :-) I can also agree to co-writers and would accept complete >>>> articles from others. >>> >>> Awesome! I think we have some interesting things to show right away. E.g. >>> this thing about String IDs discussed in the parallel thread. In >>> combination with map nature of DataObjects it allows to do some cool stuff. >>> We can talk about using String IDs to refer to objects; building persistent >>> "aspects" and attaching lifecycle to them with annotations; what can be >>> done with such aspects; etc. All of this is still rather new and patterns >>> and best practices are still being discovered (e.g. you can't do regular >>> joins across aspect relationships, so how do you build your searches, etc.). >>> >>> I am in love with this whole aspect stuff, as I am doing lots of commercial >>> CMS programming based on Cayenne and relational DBs. But CMS systems >>> require features more often associated with JCR (Jackrabbit) technology, >>> rather than ORM. The above if done right allows to have the best of both >>> ORM and JCR worlds. >>> >>> Another area is DI configuration. We have a bunch of extension points now, >>> so how do we take advantage of them to tune an application. >> >> Oh wow, many ideas - tons of posts! And intersting stuff!! >> I am not sure where to start but I am willing to learn. We should make >> up a list of interesting topics and then look at it one by one. If I >> write them myself, I need a bit help to dig them out. >> >> Cheers >> Christian >> >> >>> >>> Andrus >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> http://www.grobmeier.de > >
