On 8/19/07, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We're part of a community that has QoS, lifespan and support requirements. > The ASF doesn't host important things on non-ASF infrastructure. Transient > toys, fine.
I don't think James news is "important things" enough for anyone to care if it is hosted off site. As long as we maintain oversight. > Coincidentally, this very topic has been the most active discussion for the > Infrastructure team over the past week or so, regarding supporting and > hosting applications for ASF use. I've already suggested that Roller be the > pilot. Yeah and we all know how well that is going. And FWIW I had though of making this proposal a long time ago, several months before the current debate, but having put my 2c in it was made clear to me that there was much less appetite in infra for having blogs.apache than there was any kind of idea that project news has to be hosted by the ASF. Besides which, get real, outsourcing isn't the same as selling your soul to the devil, normal people do it every day. > At least for the moment, we are talking about requirements to ensure > appropriate levels support, and how to enable volunteers, not hiring > additional staff to run applications. And when we do manage to corral enough mugs to support blogs.apache we'll be exactly how old? d.
