> I, for one, posted that Gump should be removed. I believe several others > chimed in with the same sentiment. So, Thom wasn't alone in his assessment > in the situation. And, as to whether non-ASF content should be blogged, > there was discussion about that on the Planet - and the consensus I saw was > that we are interested in the person not their ASF activities. -- justin
I think what caused me most surprise was that I missed the whole darn 'Shut The Gump Up' conversation. If I'd known Gump was pissing folks off so much I'd've pulled it myself (as I did that day when it was producing HTML w/ an open table tag.) What is somewhat amusing is that Gump was pulled for verbosity (and/or boringness) from conversations on a page that I've already stopped reading due to it's verbosity/noise... I know I'm a Neanderthal for saying it, but PlanetApache like this is news://comp.apache w/o kill lists (except for Gump ;-) and as such I feel for the folks trying to read it all. I do apologize for the Gump noise (and I'll shut up after this, here also). I should've have experimented that way, and cost you all filter time. I honestly thought it was content from the community being returned to the community, to be shared, but I guess that was a subjective view, a mistake & spam to many of you. That said, although it is good for folks to "share & electronically bond" via blogs, get to know the people -- not the work, I'd be more inclined to read this if I could get at the work related content. I have enough friends, I judge colleagues via their work/humorous postings not their anecdotes, but for Apache-ites ... I'd love to learn their technical insights/pontifications (if time affordable). I wrote a simple HTML page aggregator (like PlantApache, only less pretty & for a local MT only) here for internal use, and I added per category pages, which I think helps mental filtering. If anybody endeavours to do the same for PlanetApache, I'd sure be interested in using and/or helping. As it stands, unfiltered, PlanetApache is too diverse/content rich for my blood... Finally, any progress from anybody on FOAF type metadata at Apache? As I said, I use PlanetApache to 'test out an author' (see if they amuse/stimulate me) and I'd be just as fine w/ a FOAF chain of relationships as the PlanetApache blog roll. I know many folks reference their blogs via home pages on Apache's servers, but I'm curious about the whole social networks side of things w.r.t an OSS community (or set of communities). I feel there is a benefit for us in there, somehow/someway, and I'd be curious to explore it... regards, Adam -- Experience the Unwired Enterprise: http://www.sybase.com/unwiredenterprise Try Sybase: http://www.try.sybase.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
