Re: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-02 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Sam Ruby wrote: The ASF I wish to be a part of is one and/or create is one that tolerates differences in points of view or approach to solving problems. Amen. -- Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Right, well the home pages are there now. And right now they are more closely associated with Apache itself than community.apache.org would. You're bringing up a new issue as to whether they should be taken away. The matter at hand is the creation of a new alias to in a way make them more

RE: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-02 Thread James Cox
You have a corporate viewpoint of how Apache's relationship with Sun should be managed. I tend to think letting them know is fine. (Somehow any explanation of this would probably start sounding like the cluetrain manifesto...which I never read because it was too long winded, but

Re: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-02 Thread Ben Hyde
On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 06:01 PM, Ben Hyde wrote: I've attempted to enumerate some of my concerns .. I'm done. - ben

Re: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-02 Thread David Reid
On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 06:01 PM, Ben Hyde wrote: I've attempted to enumerate some of my concerns .. I'm done. - ben I find myself (sadly) once again agreeing with you... david

Re: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-02 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Sunday, December 1, 2002 8:25 PM -0500 Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So Sam Ruby is the ECMA conveiner for the .NET CLI.. I propose (since its well known) that he's an apache committer and the PMC chair of Jakarta that he be told he can't do that anymore. Ugh! No, you are

Re: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-02 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: The foundation is responsible for everything on our servers. I don't care for it to be associated with *personal* views. Go find a different soapbox to stand on top of. Your contributions to the ASF don't merit you getting a personal bully pulpit. -- justin There

Re: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-02 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Sunday, December 1, 2002 7:23 PM -0800 Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are 450 people with commit access. Each one of them can put something in our servers that can screw the ASF, including web sites. Why is this any different? Because of community oversight. There are no

RE: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-02 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Sam Ruby wrote: The ASF has supportted .forward files for e-mail for quite some time. Would the mere act of putting a one line .forward file into your ~/public_html directory with your favorite URL be OK? A bit more work for httpd than your ~name/public_html/community or some such proposal,

Re: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-02 Thread Aaron Bannert
On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 01:28 PM, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: I think you're missing the point here. Regardless of the verbiage used, if this whole community thing comes to fruition, it becomes a de facto representation of the face of the Apache community. FWIW, I'm -1 on the whole thing.

Re: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-02 Thread Aaron Bannert
On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 01:39 PM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Our mission. Creating great software. Puzzling out how to do that productively in cooperative volunteer teams. Releasing that widely under a license that is both open. Crafting an effective open license. One that doesn't

Re: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-02 Thread Aaron Bannert
It has been implied by those who contribute massive amounts of their time to maintain our systems, that as soon as a secure and manageable system for revision control comes along that does not require local accounts (like subversion), then they will stop creating login accounts and might possibly

ASF Member/Committer AUP

2002-12-02 Thread Glenn Nielsen
I have been following the discussion about publicizing ASF Member/Committer home pages. The contentious issue seems to be what is appropriate use of a home page hosted on apache, or even if there should be home pages at all. A major concern of those against the proposal is that pages hosted at

Re: ASF Member/Committer AUP

2002-12-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Personally I prefer late-refactoring. Has it been a problem yet? Glenn Nielsen wrote: I have been following the discussion about publicizing ASF Member/Committer home pages. The contentious issue seems to be what is appropriate use of a home page hosted on apache, or even if there should be home

Re: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-02 Thread Sam Ruby
Aaron Bannert wrote: That is a noble goal, and I support this goal, although I do not think that an organized soapbox is the right way to do this. The short little here's the link to my homepage, oh and I work on this and that project pages are great. Anything other than that is off limits in my

Re: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-02 Thread Joe Schaefer
Justin Erenkrantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --On Monday, December 2, 2002 8:39 AM +0100 Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think we are talking about complete personal websites with blogs and such, with rants and honeymoon pictures, but about some pages that explain

Re: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-02 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Monday, December 2, 2002 10:56 AM -0500 Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin, if you would like to put forward a set of rules, guidelines, and suggest an enforcement mechanism, I would be inclined to endorse it if it would further consensus. As I have said before, what I would prefer is

RE: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-02 Thread Sander Striker
From: Sam Ruby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 December 2002 22:23 Sander Striker wrote: Which is simply not the case if not all committers and members are represented on there. Here is an effort that I made last year http://cvs.apache.org/~rubys/ Here is much move visually

RE: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-02 Thread Sander Striker
From: Stefano Mazzocchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 December 2002 22:49 Sander Striker wrote: Right now the homepages aren't linked to from anywhere and certainly not promoted. Creating the dns entry will seem like promoting the use of the homepages. Yes, that's exactly the

RE: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-02 Thread Sander Striker
From: Sam Ruby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 December 2002 16:56 Justin Erenkrantz wrote: --On Monday, December 2, 2002 8:39 AM +0100 Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think we are talking about complete personal websites with blogs and such, with rants and

Re: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-02 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Sander Striker wrote: My point is that quite a number of people won't have the time (or inclination) to do so. And because they don't, they aren't listed*. : Currently the list (auto created) on Kens page holds about 40 committers. How many committers do we have in total?

Re: ASF Member/Committer AUP

2002-12-02 Thread robert burrell donkin
communities can only grow so fast and so large by using osmosis to transfer ideas. the incubator will need to be able to tell incubatees the apache resources at their disposal and the limits beyond which use of these resources becomes abuse. i'd like to this kind of information provided to

RE: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-02 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Justin, if you would like to put forward a set of rules, guidelines, and suggest an enforcement mechanism, I would be inclined to endorse it if it would further consensus. It occurs to me that if people want to guide the content of the ASF hosted personal page, there could be a DTD, and the

RE: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-02 Thread Noel J. Bergman
ROUS wrote: uniform education of (new) committers is one of the purposes of the incubator project. documenting these things for all, including existing committers, is as well. As a new committer, I not only appreciate that view, I want to know where to find the info! :-) --- Noel

Re: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-02 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Noel J. Bergman wrote: As a new committer, I not only appreciate that view, I want to know where to find the info! :-) keep an eye on incubator.apache.org

Re: [RFC] prototype committers list with links

2002-12-02 Thread B. W. Fitzpatrick
Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Web page can be found at: http://cvs.apache.org/~rubys/committers.html Source to the script can be found at: http://cvs.apache.org/~rubys/committers.pl Fire away with comments, criticisms, suggestions, and most importantly, patches. I

Re: [RFC] prototype committers list with links

2002-12-02 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Sam Ruby wrote: Fire away with comments, criticisms, suggestions, and most importantly, patches. I believe that this addresses most, if not all, of the concerns identified to date. If not, let me know. i would prefer to have my name link to my cvs.apache.org/~coar/ page. 1) The links

Re: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Aaron Bannert wrote: To me it seems we are trying to solve two problems here: 1) A place to put homepages and personal content, including (but not limited to) ASF-related activities and project proposals, as well as individual interests. 2) A catalog of the people representing the ASF

Re: ASF Member/Committer AUP

2002-12-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
I took a guess regarding .forward and public_html (but I wonder if Windows users would know about them), and played with CVS and ssh to get it all working with public keys. Sent e-mail to Brian detailing my experience, which appears to have been incorporated into the Committers FAQ by someone

Re: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-02 Thread Aaron Bannert
On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 12:55 PM, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: [long quote omitted] Please refrain from copying every line of a post in your reply. It is best to only quote what you are replying to. -aaron

Re: [RFC] prototype committers list with links

2002-12-02 Thread Sam Ruby
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: 'nother thought. do we want to include in the karma column modules which aren't available through anoncvs/viewcvs? Yeah, I was thinking the same thing - we shouldn't include ones that aren't publically available. Perhaps we should have a list of 'dead' CVS

Re: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-02 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Aaron Bannert wrote: As Justin pointed out, we get automatic oversight right now when someone makes a change to a project website, including the contributor listings. This works very well for code commits, so whatever we come up with should probably have the same level of oversight. Justin has a