Re: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org - issues redux

2002-12-04 Thread Erik Abele
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Antworten an: community@apache.org > Datum: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 18:42:50 -0800 (PST) > An: community@apache.org > Betreff: Re: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org - issues redux > > OK, I'm trying vainly to keep up with community, and while there isn&#

Re: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org - issues redux

2002-12-04 Thread Shane Curcuru
OK, I'm trying vainly to keep up with community, and while there isn't necessarily a clear consensus, there are a lot of good ideas (and it seems quite polite disagreement). Sorry I don't have the brainwidth right now for concrete, specific proposals, but here are my take on some larger issues: AS

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 c

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 elimin

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

2002-12-02 Thread Sam Ruby
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Now, I wonder: why don't we use the 'community' CVS repository for personal pages? (or create another "community-pages" repository) what do you think? In general, it seems to me that an ASF wide repository is less likely to be actively monitored, maintained, and policed

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 ve

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 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 "commun

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

2002-12-02 Thread Noel J. Bergman
ROUS wrote: > "Noel J. Bergman" wrote: > > 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 > > pages could be generated from an XML file using a consistent look > ugh, ick. :-) that's pretty impersonal for a 'personal'

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

2002-12-02 Thread Aaron Bannert
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 "community". IMO the only ti

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

2002-12-02 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> > 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 Will do. Will there be a reference to it from http://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html? --- 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 Rodent of Unusual Size
"Noel J. Bergman" wrote: > > 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 > pages could be generated from an XML file using a consistent look ugh, ick. :-) that's pretty impersonal for a 'personal' page. not for me,

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 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 th

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

2002-12-02 Thread Noel J. Bergman
>Ben Hyde wrote: > > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > One that it doesn't address is Ben Hyde's view that that the > > chaotic "mess", where there are committers who don't even know > > that they can create a public_html, much less feel encouraged to do so... > I recall somebody having some view along

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

2002-12-02 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Sander Striker wrote: > > > I agree with Nicola Ken. We *are* talking about different things. > > Stefano proposed a short bio, picture, etc. (Although, to date I have > > not had a significant problem with people mispronouncing my name). You > > are objecting to Beanie Babies. If it will help

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? > S

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,

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 exactl

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 vis

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 i

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

2002-12-02 Thread Sam Ruby
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 honeymoon pictures, but about some pages that explain what the person does, who he i

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 tha

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

2002-12-02 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--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 what the person does, who he is, and not much more. Of

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 Andrew C. Oliver
May I continue to point out that we are WAY off topic. The issue at hand is the creation of a DNS alias. The homepage thing is already in place. Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Justin Erenkrantz wrote: Yet, a personal web site is just that - personal. It's purposely not part of the ASF community.

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

2002-12-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
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 book. No one has pro

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

2002-12-02 Thread Ben Hyde
On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 02:39 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: One that it doesn't address is Ben Hyde's view that that the chaotic "mess", where there are committers who don't even know that they can create a public_html, much less feel encouraged to do so... I recall somebody having some vie

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

2002-12-02 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
"Noel J. Bergman" wrote: > > One that it doesn't address is Ben Hyde's view that that the chaotic "mess", > where there are committers who don't even know that they can create a > public_html, much less feel encouraged to do so uniform education of (new) committers is one of the purposes of the i

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

2002-12-02 Thread Lars Eilebrecht
According to Stefano Mazzocchi: > I would like to propose the creation of the 'community.apache.org' web > site. +1, but I'd prefer a shorter name like 'home.apache.org' or 'people.apache.org'. > I would like to propose the creation of such a virtual host so that all > apache homepages will be

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

2002-12-02 Thread Lars Eilebrecht
According to Thom May: > > I've make a dream : > > > > http://name.apache.org/ > > > ew. --1 > This just creates more totally unnecessary work for root. Well, just do a wildcard DNS entry for something like *.home.apache.org and together with some mod_rewrite magic there isn't much

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 s

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 entra

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. I

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

2002-12-02 Thread Steven Noels
Aaron Bannert wrote: In the future not everyone will have an account on cvs.apache.org either. Could you elaborate on this? -- Steven Noelshttp://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center Read my weblog at http://rad

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 Nicola Ken Barozzi
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: Yet, a personal web site is just that - personal. It's purposely not part of the ASF community. There's no oversight. Therefore, I question what benefit can be gained by endorsing personal web sites hosted on the ASF infrastructure. -- justin I don't think we are tal

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

2002-12-02 Thread Aaron Bannert
On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 12:34 PM, 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

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 Andrew C. Oliver
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: --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 any

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 are

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 m

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

2002-12-02 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
David Reid wrote: > > > 1. should people be permitted to have/publish *.apache.org/~name pages? > > > > +1 > > They've traditionally been used for patches and so with seemed like a good > use. For personal information I'm inclined to disagree that it's a valid or > even desirable use. then we di

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

2002-12-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
James Cox wrote: 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, b

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 Sam Ruby
James Cox wrote: Not meaning to pick on you Andrew but this comment really made me feel i had to respond. Sun has a long standing relationship with the ASF, one that has taken alot of time to build, as well as contributed alot either way with regards to both code and community development. I would

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 Joe Schaefer
"Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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. > > +1 - These are the words of wisdom and they are delicious. +1 as well. IMO it's a well-in

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

2002-12-02 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
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. +1 - These are the words of wisdom and they are delicious. Thank you sam. - Sam Ruby - To

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 > whate

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 asso

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

2002-12-01 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/ http://www.apa

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 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
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 sourceforge

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 David Reid
> it looks like several issues are getting conflated again. Big suprise. > 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 all

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

2002-12-01 Thread David Reid
> On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 05:50 PM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > > Sam Ruby wrote: > >> Ben Hyde 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 wi

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

2002-12-01 Thread Ben Hyde
On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 05:50 PM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: 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 notabl

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. shoul

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

2002-12-01 Thread Ben Hyde
I've attempted to enumerate some of my concerns about a suite of community pages. I gather that people see benefit in such pages. I want to be clear that I'm note deaf to those arguments, just unconvinced of those benefits. On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 04:39 PM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Th

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

2002-12-01 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
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 all-or-nothing proposition (e

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 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 h

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" an

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: > 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 wit

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

2002-12-01 Thread Ben Hyde
Ben Hyde wrote: I'm concerned that a few highly vocal members might generate the impression that the foundation is taking positions that it's not. I would be much more concerned about committers having @apache.org mailing list addresses. I hope people aren't using except when they are acting in a

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 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 being

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

2002-12-01 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, 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 But then again - I am quite happy with the ~dirkx usage for unoff

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 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 th

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 on

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 commen

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

2002-12-01 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
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. I'm here to help grow a community around open-source software, not a

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 Sam Ruby
Ben Hyde wrote: I'm concerned that a few highly vocal members might generate the impression that the foundation is taking positions that it's not. I would be much more concerned about committers having @apache.org mailing list addresses. - Sam Ruby

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 > >o

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 Andrew C. Oliver
"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 represented on there. Lets find a nit and pick it. "These are the homepages a

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: >> >>> 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 h

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

2002-12-01 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
André Malo wrote: > > yep. But I don't understand the general problem. What about a simple > > > ServerName community.apache.org > Userdir community > # or similar > > > instead of the weird dot files, subdirs of public_html, redirects etc?! that works iff you know someone's username on

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 Rodent of Unusual Size
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > > --On Sunday, December 1, 2002 12:55 PM -0500 Rodent of Unusual Size > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://cvs.apache.org/~coar/people.html>, updated nightly, and > > certainly transformable into a more 'official' process. > > Oh, ick. -- justin ick to what? it

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 *d

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

2002-12-01 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Sander Striker wrote: > > > 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 what to > look for to find ~coar/people.html, on icarus nonetheless. It isn't > l

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

2002-12-01 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Sunday, December 1, 2002 12:55 PM -0500 Rodent of Unusual Size <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sander Striker wrote: Right now the homepages aren't linked to from anywhere and certainly not promoted. http://cvs.apache.org/~coar/people.html>, updated nightly, and certainly transformable into a mor

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

2002-12-01 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
I'll see what I can do about that :-) How about now: http://www.freeroller.net/page/acoliver/20021201#people_at_apache 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. Ken I suggest something like

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. > > http://cvs.apache.org/~coar/people.html>, updated nightly, and > certainly transformable

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

2002-12-01 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Sander Striker wrote: > > Right now the homepages aren't linked to from anywhere and certainly > not promoted. http://cvs.apache.org/~coar/people.html>, updated nightly, and certainly transformable into a more 'official' process.

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 as

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

2002-12-01 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
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 that decision was already made. I suppose you could propose they be shut down, bu

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

2002-12-01 Thread Ben Hyde
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... Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mailing-

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

2002-12-01 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
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 on

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 www.ap

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 redir

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 fragmen

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 ;--)

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