Re: Are devs who work on or use open source happier in their employment?

2010-09-23 Thread Mark Thomas
On 23/09/2010 08:37, Grant Ingersoll wrote: Are devs who work on or use open source happier in their day jobs? Tricky. For me, I started working on open source as a hobby. I really enjoyed my previous (non-OSS) job but it is hard to beat being paid to do your hobby. I can see this could be true

Re: ApacheCon at ASIA

2009-10-23 Thread Mark Thomas
Bill Stoddard wrote: Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: ABOUT APACHECON ASIA If China would be impossible, Tokyo would be also nice. And Bali (near Jakarta) would be attractive. 10th anniversary and Jakarta's 10th anniversary --- BACK to the FUTURE! CN has proven easier than JP. Again,

Re: [OpenPGP] Guinea Pigs Required

2009-09-17 Thread Mark Thomas
Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: the documentation revisions seem just about ready now. http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html has been substantially revised and new pages add at http://www.apache.org/dev/openpgp.html and http://www.apache.org/dev/key-transition.html. i think most of the

Re: [apachecon] Meet the developers corner

2009-05-25 Thread Mark Thomas
Henri Yandell wrote: +1, but what I'd really like to drum up the energy to do is a Come develop with the developers corner. In so much as I spend a decent amount of every ApacheCon now working on a Commons release and being able to pull people in and distribute out some JIRA issues

RE: Handling security vulnerabilities at Apache

2009-01-13 Thread Mark Thomas
-Original Message- From: Jukka Zitting [mailto:jukka.zitt...@gmail.com] The process at .../security/ answers parts of that question, but I find some steps like the suggestion to obscure the commit that fixes a vulnerability a bit awkward. One idea I came up with is to have a

Re: At what point do you unsubscribe/deny a misbehaving user?

2005-12-18 Thread Mark Thomas
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Mark Thomas wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: what thickness of skin should be required of participants on our lists? Thick enough to take to criticism, whether it be right or wrong, and to respond in a positive manner. Personal attacks of any form or degree

Re: At what point do you unsubscribe/deny a misbehaving user?

2005-12-17 Thread Mark Thomas
Noel J. Bergman wrote: We may disagree as his clueful:clueless ratio, but we can agree that he is just snarky. But on a related note, what thickness of skin should be required of participants on our lists? Thick enough to take to criticism, whether it be right or wrong, and to respond in a

Re: At what point do you unsubscribe/deny a misbehaving user?

2005-12-17 Thread Mark Thomas
Jean T. Anderson wrote: I think ignoring is an excellent tactic for a developer's list. I worry that isn't strong enough for a user's list, but I also wouldn't want to embark on a path that could backfire. Not exactly the same situation as yours but one of our users went off on one a few