Re: Plans For Docathon@ApacheEU2006

2006-06-21 Thread Ben Laurie
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: If there is anything on http://www.apache.org/ and across the foundation's websites that ever bothered you, *docathon* is your answer. Committers with site-wide access will be available to solve these issues and get suggestions committed to the site(s). [Please

Re: [PGP Global Directory] Verify Email Address - what do people think?

2004-12-21 Thread Ben Laurie
Shane Curcuru wrote: Anyone with a PGP key on the pgp.com keyserver likely has gotten one or more of these emails recently. I'm figuring it's legit, see http://www.pgp.com/downloads/beta/globaldirectory/faq.html It is legit. - Any security types have a decent analysis of what the new pgp.com's

Re: Update to mailing lists page

2004-12-13 Thread Ben Laurie
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: Ben Laurie wrote: The usual answer is to put one axis at the left, one at the right. Excellent; that's a useful suggestion for a solution. Done. The left-hand side now shows the highwater mark for subscriptions, and the right-hand side shows it for posts. I

Re: Update to mailing lists page

2004-12-07 Thread Ben Laurie
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: this is cool! Any chance we can get labeled x and y axis? No, not unless you can convince of a way to do it that makes sense. As I said, The graph is for showing trends *only*. Both the post-count and the subscriber-count lines are

Re: Open Source, Cold Shoulder (fwd)

2004-10-09 Thread Ben Laurie
Brian Behlendorf wrote: Comments? Is there anything the community thinks we could do to address the situation? Try to encourage sensible writing? I mean, it'd be cool if there were more women in open source, but the whole idea that open source should rely less on clue and stop being about

Re: Inexpensive Lists

2004-08-12 Thread Ben Laurie
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: --On Sunday, July 18, 2004 4:20 PM -0400 Brian McCallister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect that if 3 ASF'ers want to discuss a topic via email, and think a mailing list would help, there should be a mechanism to simply have it created, bang. Just my 2 cents =)

Re: ApacheCon Europe???

2004-05-06 Thread Ben Laurie
Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: On May 5, 2004, at 1:32 AM, Torsten Curdt wrote: Why not just organise an ASF get together anyways? Doesn't have to be associated with a conference does it? Would probably be cheaper as well. I guess a lot of us are more after the real life meetings than the sessions

Re: ApacheCon Europe???

2004-05-05 Thread Ben Laurie
Torsten Curdt wrote: David Reid wrote: Hi community There are several committers I know here in Europe who'd very much love an ApacheCon in our vicinity. I'm pretty sure we could even have a number of volunteers for a serious Apache event. Not just the occasional booth at some IT fair. I'm pretty

Re: Gump Spam (was Re: Who decides who is 'worthy' for Planet Apache?)

2004-01-23 Thread Ben Laurie
Adam R. B. Jack wrote: Finally, any progress from anybody on FOAF type metadata at Apache? As I said, I use PlanetApache to 'test out an author' (see if they amuse/stimulate me) and I'd be just as fine w/ a FOAF chain of relationships as the PlanetApache blog roll. I know many folks reference

Re: ASF Board Summary for January 21, 2004

2004-01-23 Thread Ben Laurie
Greg Stein wrote: * Last November, Roy Fielding resigned his position as a Director of the ASF in order to have more time to get real work done. Thus, we had a vacancy on the Board which needed to be filled. The Board appointed Sander Striker to fill that seat until the next ASF

Re: FOSDEM

2004-01-06 Thread Ben Laurie
David N. Welton wrote: Hi, I'm thinking of going to FOSDEM this year... who else is going? I keep meaning to, so you can count me as a definite maybe! -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't

Re: [Humor] robot.txt

2003-12-20 Thread Ben Laurie
Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy wrote: For the record, Stanislaw Lem is my favorite (by far) sciense fiction writer... And if you ever got to see the original Tarkovsky's Solaris (in Russian) movie, that's really good too :-) And I was going to say that the only thing more boring than Solaris the

Re: [Humor] robot.txt

2003-12-20 Thread Ben Laurie
Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 01:07:04 -0500 (EST) (Subject: Re: [Humor] robot.txt) Gregory \(Grisha\) Trubetskoy wrote: For the record, Stanislaw Lem is my favorite (by far) sciense fiction writer... And if you ever got to see the original Tarkovsky's Solaris (in Russian) movie,

Re: [Humor] robot.txt

2003-12-20 Thread Ben Laurie
Joerg Pietschmann wrote: Ben Laurie wrote: Stanislaw Lem was actually Polish. And has anyone mentioned he coined the word robot (it's Polish for worker). The last one isn't correct. The originator of the word robot was a czech guy named Karel Capek: http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/projects/actipret

Re: bogus subs to mailing lists (more?)

2003-11-09 Thread Ben Laurie
Brian Behlendorf wrote: On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Santiago Gala wrote: Classified for reading until I finish a proposal ;-) A nice scheme against spam, I read about some time ago, was about requiring the email sender to compute a computationally difficult challenge before the email was accepted,

Re: bogus subs to mailing lists (more?)

2003-11-09 Thread Ben Laurie
Ben Hyde wrote: On Sunday, November 9, 2003, at 12:08 PM, Ben Laurie wrote: Brian Behlendorf wrote: On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Santiago Gala wrote: Classified for reading until I finish a proposal ;-) A nice scheme against spam, I read about some time ago, was about requiring the email

Re: How to get pgp keys signed

2003-10-17 Thread Ben Laurie
Eric Cholet wrote: Joerg Pietschmann a écrit : Lars Eilebrecht wrote: Should I really loose all my disks and all backups are unreadable, I would still be able to revoke my key and to create a new one. Which is not of much help in reading still encrypted stuff lying around somewhere

Re: Apache Web Of Trust, was Re: [FYI] Apache Agora 1.2

2003-10-13 Thread Ben Laurie
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: On Monday, Oct 13, 2003, at 15:35 Europe/Rome, Ben Laurie wrote: Speaking of which: where's those t-shirt designs, dammit? I would gladly to the graphic design part but don't have any idea on what to write on it :-( Well, you gotta mention 2003, Las Vegas

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-26 Thread Ben Laurie
robert burrell donkin wrote: one interesting consequence of a general move within jakarta towards extensive unit testing is that the time required to commit patches has significantly increased. my experience now is that creating good unit tests takes more than the time it takes to write the

Re: that map

2003-04-08 Thread Ben Laurie
David Reid wrote: Now, now Danny - don't exaggerate :) Yeah, we've told you a million times not to... Cheers, Ben. david Look at http://cvs.apache.org/~dirkx/sgala.html there is a zoomable map, courtesy of asemantics and dirkx. Awesome! I zoomed right in, I swear I could almost see myself

Re: The web of trust

2003-02-14 Thread Ben Laurie
Rich Bowen wrote: I went to a keysigning last night, and started playing with some software for graphing the web of trust. I have generated some images that are kinda cool, and you can see them at http://apacheadmin.com/gpg/ I generated this using graphviz

Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-02 Thread Ben Laurie
Ben Hyde wrote: Dirk-Willem, Santiago - too cool! Thanks to all for fixing my typos and adding more doco! I can't make maps at until I convince one of the machines in my house to build a version of xworld with tiff and gif||png support. 39 people in committers/urls.txt, but that's a small subset

Re: wiki data migration (was: Do vs. Talk)

2003-01-10 Thread Ben Laurie
Aaron Bannert wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wtf roflmao ROFLMAO: rolling on floor laughing my ass off (wtf is a cool utility) I like - where does it come from? Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go

Re: [RFC] prototype committers list with links

2002-12-06 Thread Ben Laurie
James Strachan wrote: From: Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: In the case of Maven, it would seem to me that a bio/ or homepage/ element inside developer/ elements in project.xml files would be most appropriate. Working on adding url/ element as we speak. Gah; bike shedding at

Re: Subtle barriers to entry

2002-11-04 Thread Ben Laurie
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: Chuck Murcko wrote: I've noticed in looking around the Apache sites that there's a lot of inconsistency in providing links (usually in the sidebars) where people can get on the mailing lists. since i answer the asf email, this is something that has bugged the crap