On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:22 AM, eberhard speer jr. <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > > I thought a "DB" was already up, is it? > > Yes it is [work in progress]. As a contributor to this project I > consider that part of the contribution, irrespective of my current or > future relations with the community, it's members, it's views, etc; > but I trust you understand : putting aside my 'contributor' hat and > putting on the "IPMC" hat... > [memo to self : buy a hat-rack] > > So, yes, 'that' Db is there and yes, its all 'DeviceMap' and lots of > other goodies [ALL within copyright restrictions and law] and yes, no > matter what, it will stay open, free, all standard-complaint, etc... > > Recent experience [guid, GUID, UUID] teaches not to propose, but to > ask what others would propose... > > IF you are now thinking of some modality whereby Apache could take > control and ensure continuity of that Db, you can be assured of my > fullest cooperation. > > Wherever it is now (seemed hosted on a personal server for now) to be succesful beyond a PoC as part of an Apache project IMHO it needs to host it and "take control" though, I assume other than webmasters (see Jenkins, etc.) "it" is probably this project and active contributors rather than someone else ;-) > > We should offer a live service to "harvest" or contribute such data > > more easily than right now. Whether it is a DB or flat XML files, > > don't care, but files could be hard to maintain. > > Any service you think appropriate to offer CAN be offered. > Flat file, fat file, you name it...as long as I can keep them boxes > here running and it's fun, count on it ! > > It probably makes sense to consider something under http://db.apache.org/ to "eat our own dogfood" > Food for thought not doubt, but still : > How do we propose to keep and maintain the device data, manage it and > manage 'publications'. > > "Aye, there's the rub..." :-) > > Considering goings-on on the incubator list, I'd like the Mentors to > weigh in on this. > > esjr > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJT/Ra0AAoJEOxywXcFLKYcANkIAJ/mK2lGk6g4jDjCJwSEvNwN > BccKyqFYHaTq+sHi9dblKNNz/ngzsNXsoyWoSaVDuEIuwnoAnztCb+ZPjXMmGN85 > YKkBBUr7WHc6x1INJoYVlkxUFI/kVjYGNQin4XislHk2RuZleCNAUreUqs2WV9H1 > qYx14/bmkHSkhnLgEfHluE34ThYH2X3JXWFG/g2wFhpEi14kOIVabfsG/Ed3MXMo > 1iPs5BIoU7obDFLgXmeoRZrAE5PAwUQtHe4KVR7s+4SYUH0eZ0dRW2VU5Ay5yo+T > a2sA/hQTIMwojJT7E2vDViS4q3bWsAkTLlsSAmbb0+8cM+ojvguF/mkxI29NfaQ= > =Z7/o > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
