13.12.2013 0:12, Rainer Gerhards:
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Otis Gospodnetic <
[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
Thanks David & Rainer. The last few emails were very constructive and
pragmatic. Based on what I heard I'd think you'd want to push things
towards Github. Ignore Apache for now at least.
* Make Github *the only* source (i.e. not Adiscon git)
why?
I see no reason to make it *the only*, but it should be more visible
than it is now, and, if so, it should be at least equal to Adiscon repo
in terms of "actuality". Taking me as an example, I've found this GitHub
repository by accident, while browsing through other obsolete forks.
GitHub interface is more user-friendly than git.adicson.com, it has many
usable features, and it allows to contribute more than a single patch.
* Make
https://github.com/rgerhards/rsyslog/blob/master/doc/build_from_repo.htmlmore
prominent (and markup, not HTML)
"markup, not HTML" easy said...
Indeed, but this is a major problem with rsyslog documentation. HTML
does not imply anything about how things should look. Therefore,
differently-looking doc pages become an ugly, unstructured heap. This
also prevents others to contribute or improve docs.
Many years ago, I've used Perl POD in an alike situation. It is
oversimplified, and this allows to concentrate on contents. It helped in
my case. But I do not think this one is suitable for rsyslog.
I hope someone knows a format which will fit rsyslog better.
* Link it from rsyslog.com. Your github repo clearly doesn't have much
Google juice. Maybe David can pull some strings? ;)
that'll happen tomorrow
I would suggest to have GitHub repos crosslinked from git.adiscon.com,
also. BTW, some of smaller adiscon repos did not work for me when I've
tried to pull via http://...
what saddens me is that we seem to be conceived as "closed". The root of
rsyslog is that we wanted to provide a real open soure alternative to an
(at that time) becoming more and more closed syslog-ng:
Rsyslog can appear "closed", indeed, because it is not obvious for
anyone not on the list that you, being a maintainer, backed by a
company, will accept anything. It needs some PR to form public opinion.
For example, a track of succesful pull requests, or even a "banner" on
main page of official site, and much more than that. Try to look to the
project from outside, and you'll see.
--
Pavel Levshin
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