On 10/8/07, Alan Burlison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark Martin wrote: > > > The export is available at: > > http://cr.opensolaris.org/~devnull/portal/myfile.del > > Several other people have contacted me offline with basically the same > thing. I really don't want people to end up duplicating work that is > already being done, so could I please ask that people state their > intentions on website-discuss *before* starting work on stuff? I'm > delighted that people want to help, and I really don't want people to > put in time and effort that is duplicated, I'd be upset if people got > annoyed and felt their time had been wasted, I really appreciate the > people who have come forwards so far. There is loads of stuff to do, > but it is probably best if we only do it the once ;-)
No worries. I'll shelve the generator and move back to trying to get an on-nv fix in. FWIW, I thought I had signaled intent on the list before working, but I'm willing to accept that I'm still green to the OSo process. We don't have any reasonable way of building the portal software that > doesn't involve it actually being installed on your build machine by the > build process. Sorting that out is probably the first priority, if > anyone is interested in working on it. Meaning you're looking for something like Cargo and/or CruiseControl, or am I misinterpreting "building the portal software"? And be aware that as I explained in > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/website/website_restructuring/, > the priority is to get rid of the current webapp as quickly as is > possible, so if people *do* choose to work on it, they should be aware > that it is effectively an evolutionary dead end. Absolutely understood. I hit the diff as a drive-by while generating the data generator. I already knew it was throw-away. -- ------------------------------------------------------ Born to the false world, the wanderer, Storyteller, The Pied Piper On a quest for immortality Gathering a troop to find the fantasy -- Nightwish
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