WANTED: Old Apache Community Photos (and your participation!)

2009-10-27 Thread Brian Behlendorf
Next week, on Wednesday morning, we're hosting a Pioneers panel discussion at ApacheCon. We'll be pulling together folks who were there in the delivery room when the new-ht...@hyperreal.org list was born in 1995, as well as others who have been critical to the birth of the Foundation itself

passing along a request for a mentor for a mod_rdf project

2007-05-28 Thread Brian Behlendorf
Last week I spoke at a conference in Romania, and heard about a group in a town called Iosi sponsoring something of a mini-Summer-of-Code for Romanian CS students: http://oscar.info.uaic.ro/?q=node/32 One of the proposed projects is described as: 3)Apache mod_rdf (OP03) Creation of an

Re: JIRA and Bugzilla [Was: Wikis for Geeks]

2005-05-07 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Sat, 7 May 2005, Santiago Gala wrote: True. JIRA does the right thing provided the changes are sent into a public list. Bugzilla, IIRC, is usually configured so that only assignee, reporter and other people commenting get copies, and this is definitely bad. This is what gnome, mozilla and other

[Osdir-daily] Novell Acquires Valuable B2B, Web Services Patents (fwd)

2005-05-05 Thread Brian Behlendorf
Woohoo! Go Novell! Brian -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 00:45:01 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Linux News Software - OSDir.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Osdir-daily] Novell Acquires Valuable B2B, Web Services Patents It has been

Re: Wikis for Geeks: anyone have a wiki that supports CVS/SVN for users?

2005-04-26 Thread Brian Behlendorf
There is SVNwiki, but it only uses SVN as the database backend; it's not designed to have the content also be edited directly, though someone could carefully do that. The issue is that Wikis do things to data on the way in, from syntax checking to (perhaps) glossary-izing, as well as to the

Florida election shenanigans caught on tape

2004-11-19 Thread Brian Behlendorf
This may be completely inappropriate for this list... but this, is so, *wrong*. And no matter what side of the political spectrum you sit on, I know transparency and auditability and trust is important to you - that's why you're here at Apache. And yes, this is news; not a rehash of what you

Re: Open Source, Cold Shoulder (fwd): One woman's comments

2004-10-20 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Julie MacNaught wrote: Conclusion? Just play nice. Right on! It's amazing how well a bit of humility, encouragement of others, and responding to fire with ice works in online communities - whether technical like this one, or social, or whatever. I'm haunted, though, by

Re: Open Source, Cold Shoulder (fwd)

2004-10-13 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Wednesday 13 October 2004 16:44, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: In the end, the majority of the 99% must adjust to the 1% of idiots. Hmmm At a 2 magnitude superiority in manpower, the majority is unable to keep them in check, and weed them out? Is

Open Source, Cold Shoulder (fwd)

2004-10-08 Thread Brian Behlendorf
Use www.bugmenot.com if you need a password. Comments? Is there anything the community thinks we could do to address the situation? Brian -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:09:41 -0400 From: Greg Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Open

Re: IDE licenses

2004-09-21 Thread Brian Behlendorf
Eclipse is open source. Why is this company using their brand? Ugh. Brian On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Felipe Leme wrote: Hi all, I had to talk with MyEclipseIDE (http://myeclipseide.com) support regarding work-related issues, so I took the opportunity to inquiry if they would provide free

Re: [ANN] HP memo forecasts MS patent attacks on free software

2004-07-21 Thread Brian Behlendorf
OpenOffice, too. Batten down the hatches! Brian On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Antonio Gallardo wrote: An interest article about the posible attack using patents. An interesting quote: They [MS] are specifically upset about Samba, Apache and Sendmail. Here is the link:

Re: Jobs List again

2004-07-17 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: after a brief discussion, this went back to obscurity. As far as I can see, we don't have a jobs offered / jobs wanted list. How about getting one? I would be willing to act as moderator. I've passed the request along to the infrastructure team.

Re: failure notice

2004-07-09 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Henri Yandell wrote: * Be forgiving to the infrastructure volunteers. While the 'thank them for all the stuff they are doing for us' can get tiring, the reality is that the ASF seems to be growing in resources and yet Brian has not collapsed from exhaustion. Well I nearly am,

RE: failure notice

2004-07-08 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Noel J. Bergman wrote: As for the problem, it seems to be in spamwatch, and will be addressed. It's not a problem in spamwatch, it's an intentional setting, based on a pattern Tetsuya gave us. Brian -

Re: Do we have a jobs list?

2004-07-06 Thread Brian Behlendorf
We don't appear to, but I would be +1 on setting something like this up. Freebsd.org has one, not sure who else might. Brian On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: personal question and I don't know whether it is appropriate to ask on community@: Do we have a Jobs available /

Re: About party@

2004-06-21 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Adrian Sutton wrote: Hi all, I've recently (ie: 2-3 days ago) been told that I'm heading off to Java One at the end of the week and thought it would be worth checking the party@ list to see what gatherings had been organized etc. Two questions: 1. Is the party@ list

Re: Linuxworld presence?

2004-05-28 Thread Brian Behlendorf
I'll be in New Zealand the first half of August, otherwise I'd seriously support this. I think there are enough other Bay Area types that we could have a good turnout to man the booth. Linuxworld has stopped being a geek show and is definitely a business show now, which I think is all the more

Re: ASF use spamassassin?

2004-04-17 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Hmmm..might be problematic when you're on the move and have to use whatever system/connection is available. A quick hack in that case, if you have access to SSH and can tunnel: set up a tunnel over your SSH connection to minotaur's localhost port

Re: ASF use spamassassin?

2004-04-17 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: Most of the .qmail files in ~apmail are not setup to allow that directly on @apache.org... Oh yeah, you're right. That's not hard to fix, though it's a pain to maintain. It means having files on daedalus:~apmail for each user that fits

Re: ASF use spamassassin?

2004-04-17 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Antonio Gallardo wrote: Brian Behlendorf dijo: Yeah, me too. But even with aggressive filtering I still get 200-300 a day. I abandoned my [EMAIL PROTECTED] address for this reason. This is why I think we need to go hard on spam policies. Please, turn on spamassassin

Re: ASF use spamassassin?

2004-04-17 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Antonio Gallardo wrote: BTW, the sender header of the mail I replied is: X-Spam-Rating: localhost.hyperreal.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: minotaur.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N That means we are using something to break

Re: Clarifying some licensing issues for Apache developers

2004-03-12 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, J Aaron Farr wrote: However, mx4j is a good example because apparently it includes code licensed under the Jetty and Jython licenses [2]. While I am not intimately familiar with mx4j, this may mean that the total legal effect of using mx4j is not contained within the mx4j

Re: Some Pointers for updating to Apache 2.0 license

2004-02-18 Thread Brian Behlendorf
There's no quick answer; the question is, will someone who is making a good-faith effort to follow the license not realize that the LICENSE and NOTICE files are slightly differently named, and thus not follow whatever related requirements are in the license. Even in that rare circumstance, most

Re: ASF Board Summary for January 21, 2004

2004-01-26 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Paul Libbrecht wrote: That looks like great news. Everytime I see an open-source license coming out, I keep having the same question: what is expected, what is known (and known to fail), in terms of applicability of this license in other countries than the USA? Dirk has

land for sale in Apache County, AZ

2004-01-19 Thread Brian Behlendorf
For those who want a more direct connection with our namesake: http://www.bid4assets.com/auction/index.cfm?AuctionID=107809ct=catFeature (I'm not the seller or anything, just saw this and though I'd forward it) Brian - To

RE: Single Location for syndicated Apache blogs

2004-01-08 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Noel J. Bergman wrote: We have so far voted to not create an ASF blog because we do not want the perception of the ASF approving the content of the blogs. This does not seem any different to me. I understand that some people feel that we are just syndicating content from

Re: Mailing from apache email address

2003-11-11 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:52:29AM -0800, Brian Behlendorf wrote: certain IP addresses that could send mail that claimed to be From: an @apache.org address, in an attempt to prevent forged spam. But I'm sure the infrastructure team would make

Re: bogus subs to mailing lists (more?)

2003-11-07 Thread Brian Behlendorf
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, for uknown/untrusted

Re: Mailing from apache email address

2003-11-07 Thread Brian Behlendorf
Joshua and Joerg said you can just send mail as whomever you like through your local SMTP relay; and while that's usually true, some conservative sysadmins will only allow relaying through of mail claiming to be from a particular sender domain; furthermore it's becoming more common for port 25

RE: RfP: Apache T-Shirt Logo Contest

2003-10-30 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Unfortunately, I don't think that would really be acceptable, mostly because of listing GPL. That would be fine, but then you'd have to give away the shirt for free. Brian

Re: Press PR (was Re: The board is not responsible!)

2003-10-27 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Berin Lautenbach wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: when I subscribed to some mailing lists, I got stunned at seeing the fact that some mailing lists accepted spam mails. Some lists were setup wrong. AFAIK, none of the lists should accept mail from non-subscribers

Re: FW: Microsoft's patent loss rattles tech community

2003-09-05 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Noel J. Bergman wrote: With respect to the mess of software patents, here is an example where initially most people laughed, Ha ha, they fed Microsoft!, until it slowly began to dawn on people that this is a huge problem. Is there any indication yet that Eolas intends

Re: Patent warnings

2003-09-04 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: as we all have noticed, the EU parliament did not vote on Software patents. Can we start to fade the redirections out again? It's not nice, that e.g. bugs.apache.org is no longer reachable. Note that bugs.apache.org is being phased out, since

Re: EU Software Patents

2003-08-27 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, David Reid wrote: Bill, are you seriously saying that laws in the EU will not have any impact on the way the ASF carries on it's affairs? It saddens me as I thought we'd moved away from this sort of small minded view of the world :( No, it means that, at least as far as

Re: No answer from announceme...@jakarta.apache.org [Fwd:Returnedpost for announceme...@jakarta.apache.org]

2003-08-26 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: If I remember correctly, Brian modified the settings of each announce(ments)@tlp.apache.org mailing lists to forward to announce@apache.org automatically... Right!? Nope, in fact I was arguing against it, unless someone crafts a message to let the

Re: No answer from announceme...@jakarta.apache.org [Fwd: Returned post for announceme...@jakarta.apache.org]

2003-08-25 Thread Brian Behlendorf
I don't think it's acceptable for moderators to miss valid messages, even with the spam that comes through. However the last few weeks have been so chaotic with mail systems that it wouldn't surprise me if they just missed these, or the messages were lost along the way, or something. Anyways, I

Re: No answer from announceme...@jakarta.apache.org [Fwd: Returned post for announceme...@jakarta.apache.org]

2003-08-25 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: But.. I assumed that listowner != moderator and most of the mail lists in apache.org were owned by 1. Mr. Jon Scott Stevens 2. Mr. Ken Coar 3. Mr. Dirk-Willem van Gulik 4. Mr. Pier Paulo Fumagalli right!?!? I am afraid that if those who

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

2003-08-19 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Noel J. Bergman wrote: (b) subscribe each [EMAIL PROTECTED] to announce@apache.org Whoa whoa whoa. b) is backwards - from the other discussions on this, you wanted to subscribe announce@apache.org to each [EMAIL PROTECTED], not the other way around. I think

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

2003-08-18 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Thom May wrote: * Noel J. Bergman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : So then it sounds as if two action items are to: (a) ensure that each TLP has an announce@ (b) subscribe each [EMAIL PROTECTED] to announce@apache.org Works for me. Sounds good, unless anyone has

Re: archives?

2003-07-06 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: http://db.apache.org/mail/ http://james.apache.org/mail/general/ http://james.apache.org/mail/site-dev/ Won't these above be created? Done. Next time something's noticed missing, just ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: archives?

2003-07-04 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Erik Abele wrote: On 03/07/2003, at 05:14, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: Is this list archived? There was a post a few weeks ago with committer stats that I wanted to save but can't locate it any more. There are archives at MARC and gmane.org: And of course, at

Re: FYI: spam/viruses originating from apache.org

2003-06-03 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: FYI, I have received a spam/virus email apparently from someone @apache.org, and I also got a virus scanner response at my @apache.org address, indicating that some weird message has been sent with [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the originator. If anyone

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

2003-01-29 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: It's probably an oversight, nothing more. Drop a message to apmail@ (oh heck, I'll CC them in this message right now) and they should be able to set it up. Also community@ should be added to the publically available archives in