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 on www.apache.org/~name > >and some on cvs.apache.org/~name and some don't have it. > > I'm -0 on the proposal for the following reason: what happens when someone > places something inappropriate on their website? While I know we're all > reasonably sane adults, I've run enough 'community' websites to get fed up > with morons complaining about potentially offensive comments one of our > users posted. Even worse, when people place infringing > code/music/pictures, +1 on having a usage policy. I'd suggest "anything not blatantly illegal". > I end up being the bad guy shutting the account down. > I don't appreciate it when someone does that. (Comments that we don't > assume liability for the content doesn't assuage an irate moron - they'll > still complain.) Then the people behind [EMAIL PROTECTED] should investigate killfiles.. I don't see this as a strong counterargument. > I'm about as a strong proponent of free speech as there is, but this has > the propensity to snowball into a bureaucratic nightmare. I'd rather > people only have ASF-related stuff on their 'personal' ASF website, or a > redirect/link to their 'official' non-ASF site. I'd guess most people don't have a stable place to host a 'personal' website, other than some place like geocities. > I don't see how this coincides with the goals of the ASF. It puts a face to otherwise faceless committers, making the community stronger. 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 trace of this 'individuality' that dilutes the Apache brandname. --CM029476 > IMHO, each project (or sub-project) should have a page that lists all > frequent contributors with a link to their preferred page (this is what > HTTP Server and a few other projects do). For HTTP Server, some people > have pictures and (not-so) witty comments on the 'contributors' page. > > (Note: on infrastructure@, Stephen brought up ASF-wide blogs - my reply was > essentially the same as this.) -- justin
