Hi Sean, Once you have finished your article, you could re-publish it here: http://www.linuxcoding.org Idea of this site is to collect various tutorials and other stuff of free-software development.
Thanks, Madars On 8/26/07, Sean Dague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 03:10:33PM -0400, Jonathan Pryor wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 12:07 -0500, Austin Winstanley wrote: > > > Just telling us "Post it on the mailing list and we'll get around to > > > it", seems, at least to me, like a write-off. > > > > It may seem like a write-off, but it isn't, not exactly. > > > > It's more like, "Post it to the mailing list, and if (1) we like it, and > > (2) you do it often enough*, we'll create an account for you." > > > > * Where "often enough" may be only one posting; it's somewhat > > inconsistent. > > > > This is identical in principal to what we do for developers: > > > > http://www.mono-project.com/SVN#Obtaining_Write_Access > > > > So there is a barrier to entry (posting something to mono-list), but it > > should be a somewhat low barrier of entry. > > It would be good if that policy got written up on the wiki. The wiki > pages regarding editing of content at: > http://www.mono-project.com/Mono_Documentation_Improvement_Project seem > contradictory to the policy at hand. > > It is your policy to set. It would be good to document that policy on > the wiki. > > > > Why don't yall grant some accounts, and if they get abused, you could > > > always pull them... > > > > This gets back to the issue of there (probably) not being enough > > resources to police the Wiki to check for abuse. It's easier to just > > let reasonably trustworthy people in to start. > > > > Which isn't to say that you're not "reasonably trustworthy." You'll > > just be _more_ reasonably trustworthy after you send something to > > mono-list/mono-docs-list/etc. :-) > > Fair enough. My personal experience has shown that as long as you have > anti spam engine enabled on your wiki (moinmoin has a good one, I assume > media wiki has something equivalent), just requiring self registering > accounts is enough to keep abuse out. > > Given that it took 2 emails to mono-list to even get this thread > rolling, I'm a bit unenthused in it being a gating element in getting > access to the wiki. I'd like to hope the guy behind me would have the > ability to fix my aweful spelling mistakes (which I am known to make > from time to time), without emailing here first. :) > > Anyway, in the mean time, I'll be writing up the information on the > OpenSim wiki instead: http://openmv.org/wiki/MonoSqlite. It will be > written in various small time chunks, so don't expect much for the next > week or so, but it will evolve over time. > > -Sean > > -- > __________________________________________________________________ > > Sean Dague Mid-Hudson Valley > sean at dague dot net Linux Users Group > http://dague.net http://mhvlug.org > > There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors > than zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down. > __________________________________________________________________ > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFG0KbXSamXem9TdyYRAuUqAJ9h/pOZDDF/klxUvp8UBKD7Fwb6DwCfZNgc > qwl3vjVF+lv+qHfaTKV+Us4= > =2DYH > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > >
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