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

2002-12-03 Thread Daniel Rall
Jeff Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Alternatively.. Let's abandon all this wishy-washy 'community' guff and focus on what matters: the code. As Coding Machines, I say each new committer be assigned a serial number by which they are addressed publicly. With luck, we can eliminate any

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

2002-12-03 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Daniel Rall wrote: Jeff Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Alternatively.. Let's abandon all this wishy-washy 'community' guff and focus on what matters: the code. As Coding Machines, I say each new committer be assigned a serial number by which they are addressed publicly. With luck, we

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

2002-12-02 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Sam Ruby wrote: The ASF I wish to be a part of is one and/or create is one that tolerates differences in points of view or approach to solving problems. Amen. -- Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2002-12-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Right, well the home pages are there now. And right now they are more closely associated with Apache itself than community.apache.org would. You're bringing up a new issue as to whether they should be taken away. The matter at hand is the creation of a new alias to in a way make them more

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

2002-12-02 Thread James Cox
You have a corporate viewpoint of how Apache's relationship with Sun should be managed. I tend to think letting them know is fine. (Somehow any explanation of this would probably start sounding like the cluetrain manifesto...which I never read because it was too long winded, but

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

2002-12-02 Thread David Reid
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 I find myself (sadly) once again agreeing with you... david

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

2002-12-02 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Sunday, December 1, 2002 8:25 PM -0500 Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So Sam Ruby is the ECMA conveiner for the .NET CLI.. I propose (since its well known) that he's an apache committer and the PMC chair of Jakarta that he be told he can't do that anymore. Ugh! No, you are

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

2002-12-02 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: The foundation is responsible for everything on our servers. I don't care for it to be associated with *personal* views. Go find a different soapbox to stand on top of. Your contributions to the ASF don't merit you getting a personal bully pulpit. -- justin There

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

2002-12-02 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Sunday, December 1, 2002 7:23 PM -0800 Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are 450 people with commit access. Each one of them can put something in our servers that can screw the ASF, including web sites. Why is this any different? Because of community oversight. There are no

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 Aaron Bannert
On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 01:28 PM, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: I think you're missing the point here. Regardless of the verbiage used, if this whole community thing comes to fruition, it becomes a de facto representation of the face of the Apache community. FWIW, I'm -1 on the whole thing.

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

2002-12-02 Thread Aaron Bannert
On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 01:39 PM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Our mission. Creating great software. Puzzling out how to do that productively in cooperative volunteer teams. Releasing that widely under a license that is both open. Crafting an effective open license. One that doesn't

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

2002-12-02 Thread Aaron Bannert
It has been implied by those who contribute massive amounts of their time to maintain our systems, that as soon as a secure and manageable system for revision control comes along that does not require local accounts (like subversion), then they will stop creating login accounts and might possibly

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

2002-12-02 Thread Sam Ruby
Aaron Bannert wrote: That is a noble goal, and I support this goal, although I do not think that an organized soapbox is the right way to do this. The short little here's the link to my homepage, oh and I work on this and that project pages are great. Anything other than that is off limits in my

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

2002-12-02 Thread Joe Schaefer
Justin Erenkrantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --On Monday, December 2, 2002 8:39 AM +0100 Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think we are talking about complete personal websites with blogs and such, with rants and honeymoon pictures, but about some pages that explain

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

2002-12-02 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Monday, December 2, 2002 10:56 AM -0500 Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. As I have said before, what I would prefer is

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

2002-12-02 Thread Sander Striker
From: Sam Ruby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 December 2002 22:23 Sander Striker wrote: Which is simply not the case if not all committers and members are represented on there. Here is an effort that I made last year http://cvs.apache.org/~rubys/ Here is much move visually

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

2002-12-02 Thread Sander Striker
From: Stefano Mazzocchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 December 2002 22:49 Sander Striker wrote: Right now the homepages aren't linked to from anywhere and certainly not promoted. Creating the dns entry will seem like promoting the use of the homepages. Yes, that's exactly the

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

2002-12-02 Thread Sander Striker
From: Sam Ruby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 December 2002 16:56 Justin Erenkrantz wrote: --On Monday, December 2, 2002 8:39 AM +0100 Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think we are talking about complete personal websites with blogs and such, with rants and

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

2002-12-02 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Sander Striker wrote: My point is that quite a number of people won't have the time (or inclination) to do so. And because they don't, they aren't listed*. : Currently the list (auto created) on Kens page holds about 40 committers. How many committers do we have in total?

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

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

2002-12-02 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Noel J. Bergman wrote: As a new committer, I not only appreciate that view, I want to know where to find the info! :-) keep an eye on incubator.apache.org

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

2002-12-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Aaron Bannert wrote: To me it seems we are trying to solve two problems here: 1) A place to put homepages and personal content, including (but not limited to) ASF-related activities and project proposals, as well as individual interests. 2) A catalog of the people representing the ASF

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

2002-12-02 Thread Aaron Bannert
On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 12:55 PM, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: [long quote omitted] Please refrain from copying every line of a post in your reply. It is best to only quote what you are replying to. -aaron

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

2002-12-02 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Aaron Bannert wrote: As Justin pointed out, we get automatic oversight right now when someone makes a change to a project website, including the contributor listings. This works very well for code commits, so whatever we come up with should probably have the same level of oversight. Justin has a

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

2002-12-01 Thread Sam Ruby
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: I would like to propose the creation of such a virtual host so that all apache homepages will be hosted at http://community.apache.org/~name That page should be hosted on your public_html directory on your cvs.apache.org account (all committers have one, unlike

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

2002-12-01 Thread Sander Striker
From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 December 2002 16:34 Yeah.. I'm confused...what does ANY of the issues brought up have to do with creating the dns entry? It seems some folks are voting/debating the home directories themselves. Those are already there and I assume

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

2002-12-01 Thread Sander Striker
From: Rodent of Unusual Size [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 December 2002 18:56 Sander Striker wrote: Right now the homepages aren't linked to from anywhere and certainly not promoted. url:http://cvs.apache.org/~coar/people.html, updated nightly, and certainly transformable into a

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

2002-12-01 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Andrew C. Oliver wrote: If Ken puts a little more description on the page, the keywords should get picked up by google. My blog seems to be well regarded by google. i'd rather address the issue of those people who use their directories for non-about-me stuff first.. there. anyone who

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

2002-12-01 Thread André Malo
* Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: considering that.. making this an opt-in by checking for a .publish file might be a better approach. that way, anyone who wants to be listed has to take an explicit step to make it happen, rather than being listed without necessarily even knowing about it.

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

2002-12-01 Thread Sander Striker
From: Rodent of Unusual Size [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 December 2002 19:43 Sander Striker wrote: url:http://cvs.apache.org/~coar/people.html, updated nightly, and certainly transformable into a more 'official' process. Should've seen that one comming. However, you have to know

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

2002-12-01 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Sunday, December 1, 2002 1:53 PM -0500 Rodent of Unusual Size [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ick to what? its existence, or the format? :-) Its existence and the fact that Andy is on a campaign to get Google to pick up on it. -- justin

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

2002-12-01 Thread B. W. Fitzpatrick
Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: These are the homepages and voices of the Apache Community. These pages represent the committers and members of the Apache Software Foundation. Which is simply not the case if not all committers and members are represent ed on there. Lets

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

2002-12-01 Thread Sam Ruby
Sander Striker wrote: Which is simply not the case if not all committers and members are represented on there. Here is an effort that I made last year http://cvs.apache.org/~rubys/ Here is much move visually appealing and more maintained version: http://www.apache.org/~jim/committers.html Would

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

2002-12-01 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Ben Hyde wrote: On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 06:04 AM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Ben Hyde wrote: 'community.apache.org' web site. -1 Uh, thanks Ben. That helped a lot understanding the reasons behind your negative vote. My prior post regarding this enthusiasm follows... Ok, cool. See my

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

2002-12-01 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Sam Ruby wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: I would like to propose the creation of such a virtual host so that all apache homepages will be hosted at http://community.apache.org/~name That page should be hosted on your public_html directory on your cvs.apache.org account (all committers have

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

2002-12-01 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Sander Striker wrote: From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 December 2002 16:34 Yeah.. I'm confused...what does ANY of the issues brought up have to do with creating the dns entry? It seems some folks are voting/debating the home directories themselves. Those are already

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: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-01 Thread Sam Ruby
Ben Hyde wrote: //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 With a few notable exceptions, for example: http://www.apache.org/~fielding/ - Sam Ruby

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

2002-12-01 Thread Victor J. Orlikowski
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 03:13:26PM -0600, B. W. Fitzpatrick wrote: snip I think you're missing the point here. Regardless of the verbiage used, if this whole community thing comes to fruition, it becomes a de facto representation of the face of the Apache community. Indeed - all projects

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

2002-12-01 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Ben Hyde wrote: 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). conservatives sat on the left and the more liberal sat on the left (hence where the terms right and

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

2002-12-01 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Sam Ruby wrote: Ben Hyde wrote: //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 With a few notable exceptions, for example: http://www.apache.org/~fielding/ or

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

2002-12-01 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Victor J. Orlikowski wrote: Apache is about two things, as I see it: primarily, software and, as a consequence of that software, people. I see it exactly the other way around. Great communities always create great software. The opposite is not always true (see sourceforge). -- Stefano Mazzocchi

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

2002-12-01 Thread Sam Ruby
My opinions exactly match Ken's below. - Sam Ruby Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: it looks like several issues are getting conflated again. 1. should people be permitted to have/publish *.apache.org/~name pages? 2. should they follow any sort of guidelines? 3. should there be a list of them? 4.

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

2002-12-01 Thread David Reid
it looks like several issues are getting conflated again. sarcasm ONBig suprise./sarcasm off 1. should people be permitted to have/publish *.apache.org/~name pages? 2. should they follow any sort of guidelines? 3. should there be a list of them? 4. should a list be mandatory or opt-in only?

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

2002-12-01 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Sam Ruby wrote: My opinions exactly match Ken's below. Same here. - Sam Ruby Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: it looks like several issues are getting conflated again. 1. should people be permitted to have/publish *.apache.org/~name pages? 2. should they follow any sort of guidelines? 3. should there

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

2002-12-01 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Victor J. Orlikowski wrote: Apache is about two things, as I see it: primarily, software and, as a consequence of that software, people. I see it exactly the other way around. Great communities always create great software. The opposite is not always true (see

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

2002-12-01 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Sunday, December 1, 2002 6:01 PM -0500 Rodent of Unusual Size [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5. is it an all-or-nothing proposition (everyone has them or no-one does)? -1. someone tries to force its opinion on me about how i may choose to express myself and describe my participation in the asf,

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

2002-12-01 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: it looks like several issues are getting conflated again. 1. should people be permitted to have/publish *.apache.org/~name pages? 2. should they follow any sort of guidelines? 3. should there be a list of them? 4. should a list be mandatory or opt-in only? 5. is it an

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

2002-12-01 Thread Sam Ruby
David Reid wrote: file://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 With a few notable exceptions, for example: http://www.apache.org/~fielding/

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

2002-12-01 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Ben Hyde wrote: 'community.apache.org' web site. -1 Uh, thanks Ben. That helped a lot understanding the reasons behind your negative vote. Several things were put on the table: 1) potential non-asf-ralated material 2) content imposition 3) fact - vote 4) -1 without reason 5) automatic

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

2002-11-30 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
Sylvain Wallez wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Dear ASF citizens, I would like to propose the creation of the 'community.apache.org' web site. Currently, some people have their apache homepage on www.apache.org/~name and some on cvs.apache.org/~name and some don't have it. This creates

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

2002-11-29 Thread Henri Gomez
Andrew C. Oliver wrote: You have a vanity license plate don't you? ;-) May be ;--)

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

2002-11-28 Thread Sander Striker
From: Justin Erenkrantz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 November 2002 23:30 --On Wednesday, November 27, 2002 12:34:00 -0800 Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to propose the creation of the 'community.apache.org' web site. Currently, some people have their

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

2002-11-28 Thread Jeff Turner
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 02:30:24PM -0800, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: --On Wednesday, November 27, 2002 12:34:00 -0800 Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to propose the creation of the 'community.apache.org' web site. +1 Currently, some people have their apache homepage

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

2002-11-28 Thread Carsten Ziegeler
Andrew C. Oliver wrote: +1 on the alias. 0 on the content suggestion (I don't think we should vote on what people put on their page, certainly make it a strong suggestion -- I don't actually how people botch my name ;-) ) I totally agree with Andrew: +1 Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: snip/

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

2002-11-28 Thread Steven Noels
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: (Note: on infrastructure@, Stephen brought up ASF-wide blogs - my reply was essentially the same as this.) -- justin That's _Steven_, so now we are pretty sure we need that .au file and some phonetical representation of each committers' name! ;-D /Steven -- Steven

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

2002-11-28 Thread Steven Noels
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: http://community.apache.org/~name and http://www.apache.org/~name http://cvs.apache.org/~name are automatically redirected there. +1 That page should be hosted on your public_html directory on your cvs.apache.org account (all committers have one, unlike www.apache.org

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

2002-11-28 Thread Henri Gomez
I would like to propose the creation of such a virtual host so that all apache homepages will be hosted at http://community.apache.org/~name +1, although I would prefer a shorter name like people that was proposed at some time. I've make a dream : http://name.apache.org/ ie:

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

2002-11-28 Thread André Malo
* Henri Gomez wrote: I've make a dream : yes... http://name.apache.org/ ...a nightmare ;-) nd -- Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months. -- Clifford Stoll (found in

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

2002-11-28 Thread Eric SCHAEFFER
+1 People would be something else than a name or an email address ;). Eric. Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Dear ASF citizens, I would like to propose the creation of the 'community.apache.org' web site. Currently, some people have their apache homepage on www.apache.org/~name and some on

[proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-11-27 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Dear ASF citizens, I would like to propose the creation of the 'community.apache.org' web site. Currently, some people have their apache homepage on www.apache.org/~name and some on cvs.apache.org/~name and some don't have it. This creates fragmentation and confusion. I would like to propose

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

2002-11-27 Thread Mike Braden
+1 -- Mike Braden [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Stefano Mazzocchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 3:34 PM To: community@apache.org Subject: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org Dear ASF citizens, I

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

2002-11-27 Thread Jim Moore
Ditto. -Original Message- From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 3:49 PM To: community@apache.org Subject: Re: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org +1 on the alias. 0 on the content suggestion (I don't think we should vote on what

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

2002-11-27 Thread Erik Abele
I'm also +1 on community.apache.org and the redirects, but I'm quite unsure if we really should place such preconditions on all the committers. We certainly have to establish some basic 'rules' or may be only strong suggestions as Andy stated. however, IMO the requirements should be preferably

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

2002-11-27 Thread Gianugo Rabellino
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Dear ASF citizens, I would like to propose the creation of the 'community.apache.org' web site. +1! Ciao, -- Gianugo Rabellino

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

2002-11-27 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Wednesday, November 27, 2002 12:34:00 -0800 Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to propose the creation of the 'community.apache.org' web site. Currently, some people have their apache homepage on www.apache.org/~name and some on cvs.apache.org/~name and some don't have