On Monday 25 October 2010 3:21:27 pm Andreas Veithen wrote:
> I think it's again a perfect example of a discussion that degenerates
> because some people don't take the time to first get the facts and try
> to think about what the issue actually is.
> 
> Part of the issue is actually very simple. If somebody does a
> modification to the site, you'd expect to get a notification about the
> change so that you can review it. If that had been the case, I (or
> somebody else) would have reacted to the removal of the Axis link and
> the issue could have been solved without making too much noise. I
> actually took the time to check why no such notification was ever
> sent. It appears that Benson did two commits [1] to the
> /webservices/site directory, but the SVN notifications are nowhere to
> be found. Normally, they should have been sent to
> [email protected] (at least that is where notifications of
> previous commits where sent). I'm pretty sure that the reason is
> simply that Benson didn't subscribe with his apache.org address to
> that list.

That, and the *...@ws lists were not moderated lists.   If they were moderated, 
the commit would have just been moderated through.   Problem solved.

> I think Benson acted in good faith, but because of a stupid mistake
> (that BTW happened to other people in the past, including myself) he
> rendered inoperative the commit-then-review policy.
> 
> Benson, can you check your subscription to [email protected] and
> test if SVN notifications are generated properly?

Irrelevant.  The list no longer exists.    They go to [email protected] now.


Dan


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andreas
> 
> [1]
> http://svnsearch.org/svnsearch/repos/ASF/search?to=20101025&path=/webservi
> ces/site&author=bimargulies
> 
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 16:56, Glen Daniels <[email protected]> wrote:
> > <meta>
> > Can we please drop the tone of this discussion?  While there are
> > certainly some (maybe many) that believe ad-hominems, flaming, and
> > grousing are "The Apache Way", they don't fit well in my personal view
> > of same.
> > 
> > Sanjiva, I'm looking at you here.  I don't know if you had too much
> > coffee today or what, but please take it down a notch? :)
> > </meta>
> > 
> > I don't think it's at all unreasonable for folks in the WS community to
> > want things clean and correct - after all, that's sort of the main
> > thrust we've been trying to execute on in the past few months with
> > cleaning up the projects, the PMC list, etc.  10 months is plenty long
> > for a project to move itself - most graduated incubator projects are out
> > and set up as TLPs within a month or two.  On the other hand, of course
> > people are busy and website work isn't as glamorous as new plugin APIs.
> > :)  So let's please try to get some actual cooperative work happening
> > here and focus on what needs doing rather than who's asking.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > --Glen
> > 
> > On 10/25/2010 10:47 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote:
> >> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Daniel Kulp <[email protected]
> >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >>     It's been 10 MONTHS!?!   I think that's been more than an adequate
> >> amount of time for the Axis project to actually finish their job of
> >> moving to a TLP. You cannot tell me that in 10 months of time, not one
> >> person was able to copy the content over (or update poms and do a
> >> site:deploy or whatever you guys do for web content).
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I noticed that ws.apache.org <http://ws.apache.org> does not say a WORD
> >> about Axis after you/Benson worked it over. Do you think that's
> >> reasonable??! That is SOOO not the Apache Way, especially coming from
> >> two ASF Members.
> >> 
> >> Yes we should've moved over. We haven't. In the meantime, ignore the
> >> directory and continue to update the Web site ignoring all history.
> >> 
> >> I will find time to go edit "your" site one of these days and put back
> >> some history and context into this site. It is not your site or mine;
> >> its ours and I damned well plan to claim back the rightful place Axis
> >> has in this project! You cannot just go on as if it never existed :) ..
> >> however much you may wish for that to be the case.
> >> 
> >> Sanjiva.
> >> --
> >> Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D.
> >> Founder, Director & Chief Scientist; Lanka Software Foundation;
> >> http://www.opensource.lk/
> >> Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2; http://wso2.com/
> >> Founder & Director; Thinkcube Systems; http://www.thinkcube.com/
> >> Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/
> >> Member; Sahana Software Foundation; http://www.sahanafoundation.org/
> >> Visiting Lecturer; University of Moratuwa; http://www.cse.mrt.ac.lk/
> >> 
> >> Blog: http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/

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Daniel Kulp
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http://dankulp.com/blog

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