author tags (was: The cash of our lives / Dvorak)

2003-06-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:06:54PM -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: I don't know whether this was a symptom, a remedy, or a cause. Isn't the fact these tags needed to be removed some telltale? I'm just wondering, since you seem to advocate this as a good community pattern. I fully admit that

Re: author tags

2003-06-10 Thread Steven Noels
On 10/06/2003 1:45 Greg Stein wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:06:54PM -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: I don't know whether this was a symptom, a remedy, or a cause. Isn't the fact these tags needed to be removed some telltale? I'm just wondering, since you seem to advocate this as a good community

Re: The cash of our lives / Dvorak

2003-06-10 Thread Jeff Turner
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:06:54PM -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: ... Some negative aspects of @author would be the impression that the author owns the code, and reluctance on the part of others to make changes to someone else's code. The @author tag implies _authorship_. If we had an @owns

RE: The cash of our lives / Dvorak

2003-06-10 Thread Danny Angus
As for CVS logs, they are rather ephemeral things in my experience. Whenever a file is renamed/repackaged, the history is lost. Sometimes CVS modules are re-imported (as with Avalon, and xml-cocoon - cocoon-2.1) and everything is lost. This isn't necessary, it is possible to keep histories

Re: The cash of our lives / Dvorak

2003-06-10 Thread Jeff Turner
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:00:45PM +0100, Danny Angus wrote: As for CVS logs, they are rather ephemeral things in my experience. Whenever a file is renamed/repackaged, the history is lost. Sometimes CVS modules are re-imported (as with Avalon, and xml-cocoon - cocoon-2.1) and everything

Re: The cash of our lives / Dvorak

2003-06-10 Thread Steven Noels
On 10/06/2003 14:05 Jeff Turner wrote: Yes, and isn't it fun. [snip] LOL You should check TortoiseCVS ;-) /Steven -- Steven Noelshttp://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source, Java XML Competence Support Center Read my weblog at

Re: The cash of our lives / Dvorak

2003-06-10 Thread Santiago Gala
Ben Hyde escribió: a big +1 on the whole (big one plays nice with my comment, see below) (...) But unlike a piece of capital equipment an open source project is a lot more than it's CVS repositories. It's much more social construct than that. Economists don't really like to think about social

RE: The cash of our lives / Dvorak

2003-06-10 Thread Danny Angus
Jeff, Yes, and isn't it fun. --fun snipped-- ;-) So should we only do things that are fun? Moving and re-naming files in an ssh terminal session is not crazily graphical nor easy enough for a 4 year old, but I bet there are enough people in Apache who can do it without sweating that it is,

Re: The cash of our lives / Dvorak

2003-06-10 Thread Santiago Gala
Danny Angus escribió: Jeff, Yes, and isn't it fun. --fun snipped-- ;-) So should we only do things that are fun? Moving and re-naming files in an ssh terminal session is not crazily graphical nor easy enough for a 4 year old, but I bet there are enough people in Apache who can do it without

Re: The cash of our lives / Dvorak

2003-06-10 Thread Shane Curcuru
Ben Hyde [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... There is no clearing house were I can exchange one performance fix for two clear explanations. LOL! If you want to talk Xalan, I'm sure I could scrape up a couple of clear explanations if you have some performance enhancements to contribute... Actually,

Re: The cash of our lives / Dvorak

2003-06-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 01:58:16PM +0100, Danny Angus wrote: Jeff, Yes, and isn't it fun. --fun snipped-- ;-) So should we only do things that are fun? Moving and re-naming files in an ssh terminal session is not crazily graphical nor easy enough for a 4 year old, but I bet there

Re: The cash of our lives / Dvorak

2003-06-10 Thread Ben Hyde
On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 03:01 PM, Greg Stein wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 01:58:16PM +0100, Danny Angus wrote: Jeff, Yes, and isn't it fun. --fun snipped-- ;-) So should we only do things that are fun? Moving and re-naming files in an ssh terminal session is not crazily graphical nor easy

RE: The cash of our lives / Dvorak

2003-06-10 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Moving and re-naming files in an ssh terminal session is not crazily graphical nor easy enough for a 4 year old, but I bet there are enough people in Apache who can do it without sweating that it is, IMO, a poor excuse for throwing away useful information. Bah. ObPlug Use Subversion.