What people are saying about REBOL.org:
> Andrew said:
>
> If improvements were made to this script, such as converting "<" to "<"
> and similar modifications were made, could this new script then be
> installed/added to the REBOL.org site?
> Cheryl said:
>
> Well, I hope whoever maintains rebol.org will not ignore you any longer. You
> have presented two very good solutions. Perhaps, one day we'll learn who is
> actually maintaining that site and makes the decisions.
> Ted said:
>
> If you think Rebol.org needs better technology (and, of course, it
> does), a good response would be to provide the REBOL scripts that can
> do the job the way you would like. From REBOL's viewpoint, it may be
> better to leave it bare bones, hoping that someone will come along and
> volunteer to improve it.
>
> Right now, I think a lot of us would prefer REBOL put their extremely
> limited resources into getting REBOL/View and REBOL/Command out the
> door. Any of us could help to improve the Web site if we chose, but
> right now only REBOL Tech can work on these other products.
> Elan said:
>
> Then [the changes] should be made. Perhaps some people could
> declare themselves responsible for the submission script and whoever
> is managing the script can release the source to this group?
> Bob said (in regards to super rebol.org wikiness):
>
> I am also not about to ask REBOL Technologies to "take this over"
> as they have a full plate. Why slow them up when we on the outside
> have the time/resources of our own to make it happen.
Welp, I sincerely hope this energy spewing forth about
rebol.org is a signal of people eager to make the site
better. With that in mind, I dropped what I was doing
tonight and revamped for public consumption the submit-bot
script so that ya'll can hack it, improve it, fix it,
etc. and get a sense for what rebol.org is presently doing.
Download it at: http://rebol.org/internal/submit-bot.r
A couple times before I've BEGGED people to help rebol.org
and the silence was amazing. Sterling and I, along with
Andrew Grossman have been the creators of the scripts there
when time allowed, which is less and less all the time. We
wanted to get something up there that mostly ran, that
soaked up scripts, and provided a threaded mailing list
archive. We weren't even asked to do it by Carl or anyone
else in the company. We just felt someone had to get that
ball rolling so we did it after hours. There's certainly
kinks in those scripts, and forget about the low budget
appearance of the site. But it's there and it generally
works. There's more than 110 scripts in the site, and the
mailing list has thousands of messages processed and
archived.
We wanted to get it off to a good start, but we can't
possibly maintain it while doing our day jobs as developers
on REBOL. So we've longed for someone to leap up from the
community: a scripter extraordinaire who wanted to own the
site, take pride in it, help it to prosper and grow. If
someone really wanted to take the project on, manage
changes to the system sent in, etc. then we'd happily turn
over the account and break a champagne bottle across the
stern.
Imagine yourself maintaining the flagship website of the
REBOL community! The site is a well run linux box with
REBOL cgi, as well as most all other unix utilities you'd
expect.
Somebody take this site over or I will loose all faith in
humanity. ;-)
-jeff
