Re: Forking is a Feature reactions?

2010-09-13 Thread Ben Hyde
On Sep 13, 2010, at 7:37 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: I just can't resist the opportunity to fork this discussion: http://intertwingly.net/blog/2010/09/13/One-True-Way tee hee have we pushed the apache way pages to git hub yet? - To

Re: Project dashboard at eclipse.org

2009-11-12 Thread Ben Hyde
On Nov 11, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, I just found the Eclipse project dashboard at http:// dash.eclipse.org/. They've got pretty nice reports, especially the project activity and diversity charts: http://dash.eclipse.org/dash/commits/web-app/active-projects.cgi

Re: women@a.o mail list

2006-07-28 Thread Ben Hyde
+1 On Jul 28, 2006, at 10:49 AM, Jean T. Anderson wrote: The [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail list was created in August 2005; the initial charter is at http://wiki.apache.org/Women/InitialCharter . We now want to take it to the next step and create a formal committee (see the forwarded post below).

Community at apache.org is publicly archived

2005-12-17 Thread Ben Hyde
Just a reminder. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Organizational analysis of ASF codebases

2004-11-16 Thread Ben Hyde
On Nov 12, 2004, at 10:30 AM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: In short, inferring political information ... out of such graphs analysis is purely speculative and should be taken with a little bigger grain of salt. +1 I sat thru a talk the other day were the topology of a PGP key was used to infer

Re: Open Source, Cold Shoulder (fwd)

2004-10-12 Thread Ben Hyde
On Oct 8, 2004, at 4:55 PM, Brian Behlendorf wrote: Use www.bugmenot.com if you need a password. Comments? Is there anything the community thinks we could do to address the situation? Brian ...http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/sdm0411b/ yeah, i got comments. The single most toxic

Re: Open Source, Cold Shoulder (fwd)

2004-10-12 Thread Ben Hyde
On Oct 12, 2004, at 1:21 PM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Tuesday 12 October 2004 21:02, Ben Hyde wrote: Projects that: fail to welcome new comers; fail to bring in credible new contributors ... well they are just stupid. They will ultimately become dysfunctional and implode. Question; Should Open

Re: Apache should join the open source java discussion

2004-03-23 Thread Ben Hyde
On Mar 18, 2004, at 12:18 PM, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: sheepish I wasn't subscribed to community@ until now, so if there's something there that wasn't xposted to general@, let me know... /sheepish http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/SummarizeList? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beware: content is public.

Re: ASF Board Summary for January 21, 2004

2004-01-23 Thread Ben Hyde
Wee! A reply-to header on a posting to committers. Way to go Greg! Your an inspiration to us all! Congratulations to Sander. Much much more so: congratulations to everybody who slaved away on the new license for all these many years. Thank you! - ben On Jan 23, 2004, at 9:14 AM, Greg

Re: Single Location for syndicated Apache blogs

2004-01-09 Thread Ben Hyde
Well it's all well and good until somebody get's hurt. For example Ken's posting about how his Forsythia is blooming and meanwhile it's -1F here and I gather up in NH there are places that are -38F. How do you think that makes me feel? Hot and bothered, that's how! - ben On Jan 9, 2004,

Re: Single Location for syndicated Apache blogs

2004-01-08 Thread Ben Hyde
I like the planetapache.org approach. It mimize the coordination costs of getting something up and running. I'd encourage putting any stuff into the committer repository so you can parasite on the infrastructure to allow everybody to pitch in who cares to and just publish the results to the

[Humor] robot.txt

2003-12-17 Thread Ben Hyde
http://www.superbad.com/robots.txt - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Apache meetup(s)

2003-12-12 Thread Ben Hyde
I'd not noticed this before: http://apache.meetup.com/?change=1localeId=201 I find the idea of encouraging local groups forming around people's interest in various ASF projects to be very cool. That's not intended as an endorsement[1] of meetup.com. It is a very clever idea though, a

Re: bogus subs to mailing lists (more?)

2003-11-09 Thread Ben Hyde
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 sender to compute a

Re: RfP: Apache T-Shirt Logo Contest

2003-10-30 Thread Ben Hyde
I wonder how subtle and detailed the printers can be? Black shirt, a small pair of white dice, over the heart, the spots upon which are feathers. Then there is the ever popular enumeration in extremely fine print of the set of committers; I've always wanted to do one of those with the

Fwd: Book about The Apache Software Foundation

2003-10-20 Thread Ben Hyde
Clearly this mailing list needs a little levity today. Without futher ado I forward this lame solicitation... As one of my correspondents commented Clear Mr. Miller is not a native human-speaker, in fact he fails the Turning test Begin forwarded message: From: Stewart Miller [EMAIL

Re: How to get pgp keys signed

2003-10-16 Thread Ben Hyde
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Ben Hyde wrote: - ben (who thinks that the web of PGP signatures doesn't grow because people can't figure out the rules and are embaressed to admit it) ..or they haven't been given a reason to care. My dear friend Stefano - go ahead, pull my cord, bait me, tease me

How to get pgp keys signed

2003-10-13 Thread Ben Hyde
/187BD68D 1997-09-30 Ben Hyde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 90 AA 4C 16 6C 9D 12 DC 3D 8B 86 E5 0E 33 CE 52 When you encounter folks who might sign your key offer them the scrap of paper with your finger print on it and ask for one in return. Always ask to see some official (picture

Re: How to get pgp keys signed

2003-10-13 Thread Ben Hyde
This is now found here: committers: docs/pgp-key-signing.txt So that editors and pgp mavens can push it up hill. - ben On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 10:52 AM, Ben Hyde wrote: A conference provides a great opportunity to get your pgp key signed and to sign a the keys of others

Re: annou...@apache.org, was Re: Newsletter.

2003-08-17 Thread Ben Hyde
Ah! It sounds as if other people aren't aware of the background and original intent. From what you are saying, announce@apache.org should be subscribed to announce@tlp.apache.org. That way announcements would automatically funnel to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is that right? I'm not suggesting we reopen

Re: Newsletter.

2003-08-16 Thread Ben Hyde
Soliciting amusing war stories from the larger community would be fun. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: WORA Considered Evil ;-)

2003-07-02 Thread Ben Hyde
On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 10:46 AM, Serge Knystautas wrote: Santiago Gala wrote: I think a good equilibrium point between the marketing view of security (making sysadms trust) and purist java technical view would be to allow James not having to run as root under Unix (to handle protected

Re: [OT] Concept Maps

2003-06-28 Thread Ben Hyde
,... the Concept Map idea I listened to a talk by a guy who's obviously spent most of his life hacking this thing; http://www.compendiuminstitute.org/tools/d3einterface.htm He seemed quite clueful. It was mostly built at ATT, then Verizon. He has been trying an open source move over

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: that map

2003-04-08 Thread Ben Hyde
Danny Angus wrote: I've just got round to adding myself to the map (http://cvs.apache.org/~sgala/map.html), late as usual. Well done everyone involved, I love it. Everyone else.. get yourselves on the map so I can see where you live. Instructions: cvs -d cvs.apache.org:/home/cvs checkout

Re: that map

2003-04-08 Thread Ben Hyde
Doesn't work in emacs via w3 either! - ben On Tuesday, April 8, 2003, at 09:11 AM, Danny Angus wrote: It would be great to have a javascript wizard working on the UI, at least on mozilla it is a bit fragile. Oh yes, it doesn't work for me, better break out MSIE (cough cough!). d.

Re: news.apache.org (was: apache.org vs. mozilla.org)

2003-04-05 Thread Ben Hyde
A note were in Ben has post Vietnam flashback... Justin Erenkrantz wrote: Leo Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NNTP makes more sense than SMTP for group discussions. No, it doesn't necessarily. I was in a room yesterday with a lot of people who have been spending way too much time attempting to

Re: [off-topic-just for fun] - Maps and zoom-in

2003-02-26 Thread Ben Hyde
Santiago Gala wrote: Another one, ~n in ~nacho gives a newline in krell/bin/scrape_location.pl, and thus fails. I don't speak enough perl for this one. My fault. I've poked a repair into the sources. (Funny, it took 57 people to trigger these bug, while n should be 1/25 or so ;-) We can learn

Re: Where to place Agora?

2003-02-06 Thread Ben Hyde
On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 11:40 AM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Ben Hyde wrote: So one possible awnser to the question is: check it into committers someplace and see if you can get a community to begin to emerge. The privacy issues can be used as cover for not going more public

Re: Where to place Agora?

2003-02-05 Thread Ben Hyde
Agora and krell are both about navel gazing. My father and a colleague once designed a complex optical instrument that allowed it's user to gaze at his navel without lifting his head from the pillow. These are interesting boondoggles. I like that they both consist of little more than

Re: Where we are.. continued..

2003-02-04 Thread Ben Hyde
If I hadn't moved the SIM in my phone into another phone they don't support I could try this. http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/12/000145.html Presumably built on the E911 requirement. - ben - To unsubscribe,

Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-03 Thread Ben Hyde
a hi-rez version of that background map http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?11656 http://www.radcyberzine.com/xglobe/ http://awka.sourceforge.net/xglobe.html My favorite? http://flatplanet.sourceforge.net/maps/images/1678k5.jpg

Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-02 Thread Ben Hyde
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 the 600+ in

Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-01 Thread Ben Hyde
I've moved the map here: http://cvs.apache.org/~bhyde/map.jpg Too many enhancements in one day... - ben On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 05:31 PM, Ben Hyde wrote: The map is looking better. http://www.cozy.org/ben/map.jpg 21 locations known plus 4 more in urls.jpg who are keeping

Re: Wiki - we have a problem :)

2003-02-01 Thread Ben Hyde
Costin Manolache wrote: My point was: if someone posts a mail with pointers to warez or porn or spam - it will get through and will be archived in the mailing list archives. Humm, are we arguing with the stop sign here? We seem close to a settling in on that rare and wonderful thing - a

Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-01 Thread Ben Hyde
Santiago Gala wrote: I'm thinking that the best way to show the names, ... Apparently the radius label doesn't work in marker files for my version of xplanet. I'm sure I saw examples of labels floating in space over the markers on the globe. Meanwhile I'm musing about some kind of policy

Re: Wiki - we have a problem :)

2003-02-01 Thread Ben Hyde
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://jakarta.apache.org/wiki/ http://avalon.apache.org/wiki/ http://xml.apache.org/wiki

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

2003-02-01 Thread Ben Hyde
My understanding ... The current Wiki, not being under any PMC oversight, would go away. I hope we don't tear down the current one for a bit, make sure the PMC owned ones are a functional replacement. Put some markings on the current one. Move content, leave interlinks. Try to nudge people

Re: Wiki - we have a problem :)

2003-02-01 Thread Ben Hyde
of learning from the slashdot experience thrown in for free. Sorry for not really replying to your note. It's a big fuzzy topic... - ben On Saturday, February 1, 2003, at 02:50 AM, Costin Manolache wrote: On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Ben Hyde wrote: Costin Manolache wrote: My point was: if someone

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

2003-02-01 Thread Ben Hyde
Noel J. Bergman wrote: 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

Re: Where are we?

2003-01-31 Thread Ben Hyde
On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 12:48 PM, Santiago Gala wrote: Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: Ben Hyde wrote: http://www.cozy.org/ben/map.jpg heh. lookit all the developers in the middle of the pacific. :-) I'm currently dumping people who's pages lack a location meta tag into the Pacific, but I'm

Re: Where are we?

2003-01-30 Thread Ben Hyde
Sander Striker wrote: From: David N. Welton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 10:49 PM Ceki G|lc| [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do URLs have to do with Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles? Does not compute. Really... who wants to parse up some file, and have a spider

Re: Where are we?

2003-01-30 Thread Ben Hyde
This will scrap the locations... #!/usr/bin/perl use LWP::UserAgent; my $ua = LWP::UserAgent-new(timeout=30, agent=Krell-GeoScraper/0.1 ); # $ua-agent(); open(F, urls.txt); while(F){ chop; my ($username, $url) = split(/: */, $_, 2); my $res = $ua-request(HTTP::Request-new(GET = $url));

Re: Where are we?

2003-01-30 Thread Ben Hyde
On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 06:20 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: Where's a good place to get (correct) coordinates? I got mine off the topo-map in the basement stairway, come on over. Failing that: http://www.topozone.com/ -- you have to tinker to get lat/long http://mapquest.com/ -- preferred

Re: Where are we?

2003-01-30 Thread Ben Hyde
http://www.cozy.org/ben/map.jpg cvs up committers cd committers/krell make ... creates map.jpg assuming you have xplanet A mac os x installer package for xplanet is available here: http://macosx.forked.net/showcat.php?cat=Miscellaneoussortmethod=name - put's it in /usr/local/bin

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

2003-01-29 Thread Ben Hyde
Didn't we settle this most contentious issue some time ago with a few megabytes of text and a long complex vote coupled with a solid turn out? If so it's painful and cruel to reopen the issue. - ben

Re: [poll] weblog package on apache.org ?

2003-01-29 Thread Ben Hyde
Henri Gomez wrote: Questions : - Did there is a need for a weblog package installed at apache.org where commiters could put notes about THEIR ASF related works ? I have no problem with PMCs having weblogs as part of their public face. I am concerned that this diverts attention from the code

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

2003-01-29 Thread Ben Hyde
Joshua Slive wrote: Ben Hyde said: Didn't we settle this most contentious issue some time ago with a few megabytes of text and a long complex vote coupled with a solid turn out? If so it's painful and cruel to reopen the issue. - ben I've already apologized twice for rehashing an old issue

Where are we?

2003-01-29 Thread Ben Hyde
I wonder if we could do something fun. I think it would be fun to have a map that shows where the various people in the community are located on the planet. My fuzzy idea is that members of the community would put ICBM tags[1] on some web page of their. That can drive the map building. Use

Re: Where are we?

2003-01-29 Thread Ben Hyde
Bemt wrote: Cool +1.. I've already setup geoUrl so the headers are in place. (except for the ASF-KIND though) Mvgr, Martin -Original Message- From: Ben Hyde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 19:58 To: community@apache.org Subject: Where are we? I wonder if we could do

Re: Where are we?

2003-01-29 Thread Ben Hyde
[1] http://geourl.com/ ekk! I meant:http://geourl.org/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where are we?

2003-01-29 Thread Ben Hyde
Never right specs in a fright container. On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 02:36 PM, Martin van den Bemt wrote: Just heard a plain is perfect for spec writing :) (Dirk-Willem?) The result is called PLOP (for belgians and dutch people with kids : Nee geen Kabouter Plop!) See

Re: Where are we?

2003-01-29 Thread Ben Hyde
Steven Noels wrote: That's about as low on the food chain as we can go 'knowledge representation' wise. Should we climb higher, and if so ... why? nope, KISS Lies! Ok so the file is in /etc/passwd style with three columns separated by colons. The first field is your cvs.apache.org login id,

Re: Wiki Administration

2003-01-28 Thread Ben Hyde
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Ben Hyde wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: Andy gave ... and Ben Hyde admin access. Wires got crossed someplace and that didn't come to closure. It's been a while but it maybe that it stumbled at the get account on nagoya You don't need a nagoya account to do it. Possibly

Re: Wiki Administration

2003-01-27 Thread Ben Hyde
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Andy gave ... and Ben Hyde admin access. Wires got crossed someplace and that didn't come to closure. It's been a while but it maybe that it stumbled at the get account on nagoya step? No big deal. I continue to believe that the wiki should be per PMC. Infrastructure

Re: ASF use of Instant Messaging

2003-01-16 Thread Ben Hyde
On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 03:05 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: Are there any policies regarding IRC use, and is there an infrastructure participation in setting on an IRC channel for a project, or do we just go do something? Several ASF projects use IRC, including tomcat,

Re: fyi wiki statistics

2003-01-07 Thread Ben Hyde
Danny Angus wrote: Therefore 13% of all hits are people checking for new changes. So either we're all bored or theres a demonstrable need for effective notification. Yes I know, I was supposed to be looking at that too. d. It turns out if you build a event driven mail based notification system

Re: fyi wiki statistics

2003-01-07 Thread Ben Hyde
On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 05:01 PM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Greg Stein wrote: On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:53:52AM -0500, Ben Hyde wrote: ... It turns out if you build a event driven mail based notification system you shortly there after discover that it's too painful to use. The Wiki

Re: fyi wiki statistics

2003-01-07 Thread Ben Hyde
On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 06:15 PM, Greg Stein wrote: On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 06:08:25PM -0500, Ben Hyde wrote: ... Greg Stein wrote: In no way did I say it was comparably simple to standard Wiki editing. Of course not... jeez, just how small do you think my brain is? :-) Well my brain got

Re: ApacheWiki RSS feed moved into apachewiki.cgi

2003-01-05 Thread Ben Hyde
loyalty, or very authoritarian. - ben Ben Hyde wrote: I'm enjoying this rss service, but, this is not the equivalent of CVS mail; it's more analogous to getting a daily report enumerating which files in the software were changed. While at first I thought that wasn't a big deal, now it's clear

Re: ApacheWiki RSS feed moved into apachewiki.cgi

2003-01-05 Thread Ben Hyde
I love wiki. Sander Striker wrote: Who is monitoring the Wiki content at the moment? The PMC should monitor PMC specific Wikis. Some of that is sketched out here http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?WikiProjectPage ... below peanut gallery Steven Noels wrote: if someone can patch the

Re: ApacheWiki RSS feed moved into apachewiki.cgi

2003-01-04 Thread Ben Hyde
I'm enjoying this rss service, but, this is not the equivalent of CVS mail; it's more analogous to getting a daily report enumerating which files in the software were changed. While at first I thought that wasn't a big deal, now it's clear that it pretty much precludes the proof reading that

Re: Wiki RSS

2002-12-31 Thread Ben Hyde
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. Yeah, then the different projects can make their own choices about lowering the barrier to entry vs. raising the quality bar. That is both something

Re: Wiki RSS

2002-12-31 Thread Ben Hyde
Is there an engine that can pull from RSS on one side, and e-mail on another? :-) It is probably the other way around. Email renders the events, RSS tends to summarize those events. A mail to RSS bridge is a variation on archiving. http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?MailArchive I

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

2002-12-01 Thread Ben Hyde
//www.apache.org/foundation/members.html I'd be more comfortable if the individual committer pages were hosted outside the apache.org domain, as is the case with this example. - ben

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

2002-12-01 Thread Ben Hyde
On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 04:28 PM, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: Wow.. I really do feel like I'm at the Congress of Vienna. huh? (and yes I know what the congress of vienna was). It keeps coming back down to this: open (we sit on the left) closed (you sit on the right) and it really keeps

Re: @apache web pages

2002-11-15 Thread Ben Hyde
It would be fun to have an Apache community aggregate of web logs, but I have trouble seeing how it serves the foundation's mission. Sorry to be a wet blanket... I'm concerned that if we create people.apache.org we create another inside/outsider boundary. I've got a handful of other concerns