RE: Where we are.. continued..

2003-02-04 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Got a URL for one? --- Noel -Original Message- From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 16:36 To: community@apache.org Subject: RE: Where we are.. continued.. On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Noel J. Bergman wrote: http://mapper.acme.com/?lat

Verifying links

2003-02-02 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Are the *.apache.org sites ever scanned for broken links? I noticed to day that Eric Raymond moved his personal web site from tuxedo.org to catb.org, invalidating all links to tuxedo.org. See http://hurkle.thyrsus.com/~esr, which says My site has moved to http://www.catb.org/~esr/. Please fix

RE: Verifying links

2003-02-02 Thread Noel J. Bergman
, commons-* and found only 3 incorrect links. In any event, I'm wondering about the systematic issue. Do you think about a general link-checker installed on daedalus? Hmmm, is this really needed? IMHO this should be the responsibility of the content-producing group. cheers, Erik Noel J. Bergman

RE: Verifying links

2003-02-02 Thread Noel J. Bergman
setup, a cron job could kick it off at the desired schedule. --- Noel -Original Message- From: Erik Abele [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 15:35 To: community@apache.org Subject: Re: Verifying links Noel J. Bergman wrote: Erik, You are most welcome

RE: Wiki - we've got a proposed solution - hierarchy

2003-02-01 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Oversight of content relating to a specific PMC should be the repsonsibility of said PMC. That is one view. There may be others. I believe that there is interest in having a consensus on policy first, and then a solution. Not too many people have spoken up one way or another on that issue.

RE: Wiki - we have a problem :)

2003-02-01 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Costin, I see several differences between mailing list and Wiki content: 1. posting policy If you manage your Wiki with Wiki pages in conversation mode, shouldn't you want similar control over Wiki posting as e-mail posting? 2. representation I do see wiki as a transcript of opinions

RE: Wiki - we've got a proposed solution - hierarchy

2003-02-01 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Dirk-Willem van Gulik: Noel J. Bergman wrote: The three WikiAdmins are neither official nor representatives of a proper oversight body. The most logical group would be those who are responsible for the site module, and I don't believe that they want it. Well - the PMC's could each

RE: Wiki - we have a problem :)

2003-02-01 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Now that it appears that a consensus is brewing, I'm finally posting this message in public --- There appears to be a consensus for a Wiki per-PMC approach until some other Wiki technology might provide some other segmentation schema for oversight. The purpose is to

RE: Wiki - we have a problem :)

2003-02-01 Thread Noel J. Bergman
: Saturday, February 01, 2003 16:46 To: community@apache.org Subject: Re: Wiki - we have a problem :) On Saturday, February 1, 2003, at 02:10 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: a solution using the current Wiki code, I imagine that it would look something like: http://james.apache.org/wiki/ http

RE: Wiki - we've got a proposed solution - hierarchy

2003-02-01 Thread Noel J. Bergman
I hope we don't tear down the current one for a bit, make sure the PMC owned ones are a functional replacement. I understand your concern about data loss, and share it. See my comment about starting the new ones as clones of the current one. And no need to take down the old one (maybe make it

RE: Wiki - we've got a proposed solution - hierarchy

2003-02-01 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Thinking about it some more. I guess my concern is less about the data and more about the people. I'm most concerned about pulling the rug out from under people having fun before their a place they can move their fun to. I'm sure we can make the migration work. :-) We wouldn't remove any

RE: Wiki - we have a problem :)

2003-01-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
What I mean here is -not- the ASF cultural thing of having things validated by your peers; but the oversight of the type that the ASF as a US incorperated is supposed to maintain. specificaly of the type which gets us in real-live(tm) trouble; warez, child-porn, list of license keys, etc.

RE: Wiki - we have a problem :)

2003-01-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Justin, The wikidiffs@ list received 77 emails yesterday. That's a *lot* of traffic for a small group to handle reliably. I certainly can't keep up with that. Understood. One problem is that changes aren't merged. I probably do a half dozen minor Wiki updates before I finish with an edit.

RE: Student Section on wiki

2003-01-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
I wonder how this ended up on wikidiffs@ Looks like http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?TheStudentResearchPage was something that Andy started. My guess is that Master Townhill e-mailed wikidiffs because of Andy's comments on http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?WikiAdmin.

RE: Public... (Was: Re: Adding community@ archives was Open community)

2003-01-30 Thread Noel J. Bergman
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED] rg Do you still need to do something to enable searching? Doesn't seem to be available. --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

RE: Open community (was ... secret discussions ...)

2003-01-29 Thread Noel J. Bergman
In the community@ archives you can find the vote on whether this list should be open or closed. WHAT archives? As I have commented on before, eyebrowse has none for community@ (http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/SummarizeList?listId=108). Are they elsewhere? If so, where? --- Noel

RE: Adding community@ archives was Open community (was ... secret discussions ...)

2003-01-29 Thread Noel J. Bergman
We're not really trying to hide anything. What you might be able to attribute to malice, attribute to, umm, absentmindedness. For the record, malice never occured to me as an option. I'd asked about archives previously, without a response. So when the comment was ever so casually made that

RE: Wiki Administration

2003-01-28 Thread Noel J. Bergman
The life of a dyslexic is full of surprises. That should have read This is a bad-thing(tm).. I had figured as much from the earlier part of the paragraph. :-) I assume that as soon as we create per PMC Wiki those PMC would discover that they have pride of craft in the content of that Wiki.

Wiki Benefits

2003-01-28 Thread Noel J. Bergman
People can do the same with patches on mailing list; and seem less likely to abuse that. Perhaps the simple validation (and display) of a valid email address may do the trick. You are concerned about abuse. I don't disagree, but the mailing lists are also capable of being abused. I would not

ASF Release Policy?

2003-01-28 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Is there a uniform release policy for the ASF? For example, here are two documents: http://httpd.apache.org/dev/release.html Technically, any one can make a release of the source code due to the Apache Software License. However, only members of the Apache HTTP Server Project (committers) to

RE: You can at least forward my comments to these secret discussions about wiki

2003-01-28 Thread Noel J. Bergman
a friend of the court brief for the Board vs. Wiki. Board vs. Wiki? That's somewhat amusing in its timing, considering that the Chairman of the Board, as a private individual not in an official capacity, (a) is the author of SubWiki, (b) posted a message to community@ in support for Wiki use

RE: Wiki Administration

2003-01-27 Thread Noel J. Bergman
In my book Andy (Oliver, not Clark) is the master of Wiki... Andy gave myself and Ben Hyde admin access. From what Andy is saying, his plan is to give that to anyone (within reason) who asks. I don't particularly have a care, other than that people ought to know that such things as deleting

RE: Weblogs and Obstructionism WAS: Re: weblogs on apache.org

2003-01-27 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Costin, Consensus or at least a majority :-) I believe he was using the common dictionary definition, not refering to unanimity. [agregating blogs ( or subsets ) from the apache community] is a very different and IMO more important issue. Putting this information togheter and making it

ASF use of Instant Messaging

2003-01-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Justin, Sander, and I just chatted on IRC. This reminds me. Many of us recognize the benefits of instant messaging, via whatever method. However, when I first started contributing to James, one of the things that came out from one longer time Community member was a great deal of ...

RE: email notification done...sorta

2003-01-09 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Yup. Python people *and* Subversion people. :) Well *that* much I knew. :-) The association between Collab.Net and the ASF isn't obscured. I keep wondering if some of the tigris.org projects will migrate to the ASF. There appears to be a lot in common, including people. ASF uses (or will

RE: Do vs. Talk (Re: email notification done...sorta)

2003-01-09 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Jeff, Unless I missed a discussion elsewhere (I'm only on community@ and infrastructure@, as well as project lists), Andy appeared to be complaining about (a) people asking for changes to the Wiki without contributing patches, and (b) the current lack of consensus on how to integrate push-model

RE: Do vs. Talk (Re: email notification done...sorta)

2003-01-09 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Because wiki's tend to fill with content rapdily, once you use them for a little while you are pretty much locked in. Counterpoint? Personally, I'm getting mileage out of UseModWiki, despite its issues. I wouldn't want to have to move every page in the Wiki, but I could cut paste the

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

2003-01-09 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Greg Stein wrote (technical details omitted): *if* we migrate to SubWiki or some other Wiki, then we can get the data out of UseModWiki. Sounds like your approach follows the truism that in the worst case any open source code that can read its own data can be instrumented to become its own

RE: email notification done...sorta

2003-01-08 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Its too bad we don't have any decent perl programmers. I'm apparently the master PERL programmer here. The rest of you are all talk. I'm getting quite sick of your you're all talk attitude. Chill the hell out. damn. I was joking around. sheesh. That was not at all clear from

RE: email notification done...sorta

2003-01-08 Thread Noel J. Bergman
For those of you who are humor-impaired, or not aware of the Perl Acme meme, the Acme::* line of modules on CPAN are jokes. Aha! :-) I knew there was a joke in there somewhere, but that little tidbit does help to illuminate the punchline. --- Noel

RE: email notification done...sorta

2003-01-08 Thread Noel J. Bergman
19:12 To: community@apache.org Subject: Re: email notification done...sorta Noel J. Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] I was going to reply that perhaps the choice of usemodwiki was a good one as a turnkey thing, but perhaps not the best choice for the long term due to the lack

RE: email notification done...sorta

2003-01-08 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Justin, I don't particularly care which Wiki we use, so if one has benefits over the other, great. But I would like to see the content migrated from usemodwiki to Subwiki if that's what is going to be used. How viable is it to machine migrate the content? --- Noel

RE: fyi wiki statistics

2003-01-07 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Bah. Use SubWiki, check out the Wiki pages into a working copy, make all your changes, then commit them. Regular commit email sends the full bunch of changes. grin Does this mean that Subversion is coming soon to replace a CVS repository near us? Not that updating a Wiki that way is in the

RE: Tapestry incubation

2003-01-05 Thread Noel J. Bergman
I'll bite ... what is Tapestry? --- Noel -Original Message- From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 17:54 To: community@apache.org; Jakarta General List; general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Tapestry incubation no-connotation

RE: ApacheWiki RSS feed moved into apachewiki.cgi

2003-01-05 Thread Noel J. Bergman
I am interested in content quality. I would probably subscribe to the 'wiki-changes' list, since that would push the content under my nose instead of having me actively reading each changed page online. Right, that has been my point about push model communication. But do you really want to

RE: Wiki RSS

2003-01-01 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Yeah its still on my radar Noel, but as you say, I have to bond with my kids... If I were you, I know where my priority would be. :-) Happy Holidays. --- Noel

RE: [FYI] Cocoon Wiki

2003-01-01 Thread Noel J. Bergman
no idea what nagoya is but Steven has a pretty fat server behind cocoondev According to the machines page, Nagoya is a Sun E4500. I don't have any more clue than that (would be curious to know the actual configuration), but E4500s tend to be pretty powerful beasts. --- Noel

RE: Wiki RSS

2002-12-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
My personal suggestion would be to find a way to partition the wiki pages per project and send those diffs to the various project mail lists. But I have no idea on how difficult/feasible that is with the current software. How good a PERL coder are you? [Actually, Danny Angus had mentioned

RE: Wiki RSS

2002-12-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
I'd much prefer mailing list notifications over RSS feeds. These types of notifications shouldn't be pull. Is there an engine that can pull from RSS on one side, and e-mail on another? [Something to add to the nice-to-have list for James] --- Noel

RE: HotJava and EOL

2002-12-21 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Andrew, Around HotJava, the browser application? I suspect relatively little. Around the component? I know several projects that would love to see it resurrected. --- Noel

RE: Wiki Wiki (has been set up)

2002-12-21 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Andrew, Hallalujah! I have been asking about a Wiki on and off for months, and was told as recently as a week ago that there were security reasons for not yet having one. Kudos for just getting this done! I am not familar with the code of this particular Wiki engine. What would it take to

RE: [ot] domain registrars

2002-12-21 Thread Noel J. Bergman
We transfered all of our domains from NSI to BulkRegister, and we have been very happy with BulkRegister, so far. --- Noel

RE: Wiki Wiki (has been set up)

2002-12-21 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Andrew, There is already some sort of e-mail notification capability built into the Wiki, although there seems to be some question over its usefulness on the UseMod wiki site. But that at least provides us with a starting point. I've downloaded the source code, and will have a look see next

RE: HotJava proposal on the Wiki

2002-12-21 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Andrew, With respect to the proposal that Sun be approached to turn over HotJava to the ASF, do you have a suitable person at Sun to fulfill your ContactAtSun - We'll need a contact at Sun in order to make this happen role? Is Sun aware of the interest? --- Noel -Original

RE: ASF Member/Committer AUP

2002-12-03 Thread Noel J. Bergman
you might want to include Maven/Jelly in the section on bulding, which currently has only Ant. I've invited Mavenites to contribute, I've not recieved anything. Ask Dion Gillard specifically. He's doing a lot on documenting Maven. Other topics for your list: What is GUMP (just an example,

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 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

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