RE: copy of dojo in the repo?

2012-05-30 Thread Miller, Tony 
Is it possible in the VCL repository to have a reference to a remote Dojo 
Subversion repository?  That way VCL could be using the head of a branch of 
Dojo without using trunk (with all the support issues that entails).  If you 
did an svn checkout you'd get Dojo, but the VCL team wouldn't have to keep 
parallel with the Dojo repository.

Keeping up with the Dojo API is something that has to be done by developers to 
make sure the web interface always functions, but keeping up with it at the 
Subversion level within the VCL repo doesn't seem like a good idea.

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-Original Message-
From: Josh Thompson [mailto:josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 3:04 PM
To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: copy of dojo in the repo?

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Recently, the idea of maintaining a copy of the Dojo Toolkit in the subversion 
repository has been brought up.  I've avoided maintaining dojo in subversion 
both to keep the repo a little cleaner and to avoid the problem of ending up 
with an old copy in there that never gets updated.  However, the decision to 
have it in the repo is really up to the community - not just up to me.  Would 
others prefer for it to be there?  Not having it there requires the extra step 
of downloading it from another location and installing it if you want to try to 
install VCL from subversion.  This only takes a few minutes, but it is still a 
few extra steps.

Additionally, installing VCL from subversion may or may not work, depending on 
the state of development.  We don't typically check in things that are 
unfinished, causing trunk to be broken, but there's always the possibility of 
that happening.

Josh
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RE: [VOTE] release VCL 2.3

2012-05-30 Thread Miller, Tony 
+1

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-Original Message-
From: Josh Thompson [mailto:josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 4:36 PM
To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: [VOTE] release VCL 2.3

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We've finally reached a point where we do not seem to be finding any more bugs.

I created a release artifact based off of trunk.  I copied trunk to a tag under 
the tags area of the repo that is named release-2.3-RC1:

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/vcl/tags/release-2.3-RC1/

The artifact is an export from that tag with the addition of Dojo Toolkit 
version 1.6.1 with a custom VCL profile bundled in the web code.  The artifact, 
MD5 and SHA1 sums, and my GPG signature of it are available from my space on 
people.a.o:

http://people.apache.org/~jfthomps/apache-VCL-2.3-RC1-incubating/

The list of resolved JIRA issues associated with this release can be found 
under Change Log on the VCL 2.3 release page:

https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/vcl-23.html#VCL2.3-ChangeLog

Installation instructions are on the Confluence site and in the INSTALLATION 
file included in the artifact.

I was able to successfully do a test install, including image deploying and 
capture.

The directory created by extracting the RC1 artifact is 
"apache-VCL-2.3-RC1-incubating" (after extracting, you may want to rename it to 
"apache-VCL-2.3-incubating" so you can copy and paste all of the commands in 
the installation guide).  Licensing information about perl and its required 
modules, php and its required modules, and mysql are stated as "system 
requirements" according to the information under "System Requirements" on 
http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html.

Please vote by the end of the day on Friday, June 1st to publish this release 
(this allows for 3 business days to vote).  Please note that anyone in the VCL 
community is allowed to vote.

[ ] +1 yes, release VCL 2.3
[ ] 0 dunno
[ ] -1 no, don't release VCL 2.3 (provide reasons if this is your vote)

Josh
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RE: [VOTE] Andy Kurth as PMC chair after graduation

2012-05-25 Thread Miller, Tony 
+1

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-Original Message-
From: Aaron Coburn [mailto:acob...@amherst.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:04 AM
To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: [VOTE] Andy Kurth as PMC chair after graduation

All,

I would like to nominate Andy Kurth as the first VCL chair. This is a position 
that is responsible for the proper operation of the VCL project. Selecting 
someone for this position is also a necessary step in the process of graduating 
from incubator status to a top-level Apache project.

For those of you interested in the details, they can be found here:

http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#tlp-resolution

The process is like so: anyone can nominate a person to serve in this role, and 
these nominations are discussed and voted upon in the community. Based on the 
consensus from the community, the PPMC (Podling Project Management Committee) 
makes a recommendation to the ASF Board, which actually appoints the chair.

-Aaron Coburn


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RE: Which version of Linux?

2012-05-11 Thread Miller, Tony 
RHEL 5.8 (updated to 5.X+1 whenever RH does so and we can schedule the down 
time) for ECU

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From: Waldron, Michael H [mailto:mwald...@email.unc.edu]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 3:14 PM
To: vcl-u...@incubator.apache.org; 'vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org'
Subject: RE: Which version of Linux?

We are running RHEL 5.8 for both.

Mike Waldron
Systems Specialist
ITS Research Computing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 3:07 PM
To: 'vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org'; 'vcl-u...@incubator.apache.org'
Subject: Which version of Linux?
All,

I am wondering what versions of Linux are you all running for your production 
management node and your development management node.

Arbin Darren Sanders

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RE: [VOTE] Apache VCL Ready to Graduate

2012-05-11 Thread Miller, Tony 
+1

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-Original Message-
From: Andy Kurth [mailto:andy_ku...@ncsu.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 11:02 AM
To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org; vcl-u...@incubator.apache.org
Subject: [VOTE] Apache VCL Ready to Graduate

This vote is to determine if the Apache VCL community believes the project is 
ready to graduate from the incubator to a top level project.  Everyone in the 
community is encouraged to vote.  Please reply expressing one of the following:

+1 : yes, Apache VCL is ready to graduate to a top level project
0 : ambivalent
-1 : no, Apache VCL is not ready to graduate to a top level project

This vote will be closed on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 5:00 pm EST.  If this vote 
passes, the community will draft a board resolution and present it to the IPMC.

Thank You,
Andy Kurth

RE: Rework the Apache VCL website?

2012-05-07 Thread Miller, Tony 
I agree, might as well use what Apache says.  Just to provide alternatives, 
though, the current name for such things is "static site generator".  Believe 
it or not, it's become one of the hot topics on many of the web design podcasts 
and blogs that I follow (perhaps a reaction to "heavy" solutions like 
WordPress, perhaps a reaction to the current popularity of Github).  Here's a 
site which lists many such tools:

http://iwantmyname.com/blog/2011/02/list-static-website-generators.html


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-Original Message-
From: Aaron Coburn [mailto:acob...@amherst.edu] 
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 2:10 PM
To: 
Cc: 
Subject: Re: Rework the Apache VCL website?


On May 4, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Andy Kurth wrote:

> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Aaron Coburn  wrote:
>> As for the website, I agree that some design work would be really 
>> useful. I am assuming that ASF would provide a hosting arrangement, 
>> i.e. a domain like vcl.apache.org? Would that also include server space to 
>> run any type of CMS?
> 
> Yes, ASF hosts all project websites and provides server space.
> If/when we graduate, the podling website will be moved to 
> vcl.apache.org.  Apache provides a CMS but it is up to the community 
> whether to use it or something else as long as the content is static.
> More info is here:
> http://www.apache.org/dev/project-site.html
> -and-
> http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html

Thanks, I read about Apache's CMS, and I don't see any compelling reason not to 
use that. It supports both HTML and Markdown formats. Updates are managed by 
subversion, and it seems like it will be easy to use. 

Aaron Coburn



>> Confluence is a nice all-in-one package, though if you are 
>> considering a complete overhaul of the site, I could also recommend a 
>> system like Drupal (MySQL + PHP). Drupal has a lot of bells and 
>> whistles that can make for a very nice, highly interactive site. The 
>> downside of drupal is that it is not specifically designed to handle 
>> software documentation. On the other hand, if we only need to serve 
>> static html pages that focus on documentation, etc, I can also 
>> recommend Sphinx. The downside of Sphinx is that it is really best 
>> for Python and C++ projects, and it doesn't support web-based updates
>> -- it does create excellent sites, though.
> 
> I also like Drupal but don't think it can be used due to the static 
> requirement.  We actually use this for NCSU's VCL front page.
> 
> I'm not familiar with Sphinx.  It looks like at least one other 
> project is using Sphinx:
> http://chemistry.apache.org/python/docs/docs.html
> 
> -Andy
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Aaron Peeler  wrote:
>> Yes, I agree the site needs to be updated. I'm fine to move to ASF 
>> CMS, especially if this the future direction.
>> 
>> Aaron
>> 
>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Andy Kurth  wrote:
>>> The Apache VCL project website (https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL) could 
>>> use some improving.  It is automatically generated from the 
>>> Confluence wiki site 
>>> (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/Apache+VCL).
>>>  I'm not sure exactly how this works but some things have never 
>>> worked quite right... small details such as the left nav bar not showing up.
>>> 
>>> I'd like to start reworking the site and would like ideas/help from 
>>> anyone interested.  The first step would be to decide on an 
>>> underlying platform/CMS.  I have nothing against Confluence but the 
>>> ASF is moving away from it in favor of the "ASF Content Management 
>>> System".  More information is here:
>>> http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html
>>> http://www.apache.org/dev/cmsref.html
>>> 
>>> Tools have been written to assist in migrating from Confluence to 
>>> the ASF CMS.  See the bottom of the wiki page:
>>> http://wiki.apache.org/general/ApacheCms2010
>>> 
>>> At first glance this seems like a logical path to pursue.  Thoughts?
>>> 
>>> -Andy
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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