On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:31:34 +1100, David Crossley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Henri Yandell wrote: > > Ceki G?lc? wrote: > > > > > > Although many ASF members are represented in the incubator, it is not > > > representative of the ASF because it is more coercive than the rest of > > > the foundation. Some of the coercion is unavoidable, e.g. IP issues, > > > some of it mildly irritating, e.g. forrest, and then there is the > > > community requirement. > > > > Not sure I understand this. Only one here that would seem to cause a > > problem would be the forrest bit. If incubating a project, I would > > definitely want to minimize the amount of time spent having to do > > forrest things. > > Bullshit! Lets analyse that ... > > 1) Create the project Status page. > > cd /svn/asf/incubator > svn up > cd site-author/projects/ > cp incubation-status-template.html ${project}.html > vi ${project}.html ... edit the content. > cd .. > vi site.xml ... create you entry: copy a line and change two words > svn diff; svn commit > > ... that would take you 15 minutes, including the 10 minutes for > editing the content. > > 2) Publish the status page (without forrest) > http://incubator.apache.org/howtoparticipate.html > <quote> > You can just commit the source changes and leave it to > someone else to generate the website. > </quote> > > Email the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, and ask someone to do it for you. > Actually, you don't need this step because many of us watch the > commits mailing lists and someone will do it. > > Now if you want to do the generation and publishing yourself > using a local installation of forrest then follow: > http://incubator.apache.org/howtoparticipate.html#Updating+the+site > > If you don't, then that is all. Show me what causes you a problem. > > > I assume the project's website itself does not need to be in Forrest, > > just their status page. Roller will be interesting as their site runs > > on Roller :) > > No need to "assume" ... the documentation says so explicitly. > http://incubator.apache.org/howtoparticipate.html#Project+Website+Howto > <quote> > Each project can use whatever documentation system that it chooses. > Perhaps use a fancy documentation management system like Forrest > or Maven, or just use simple raw html pages. > </quote> > > Please get your facts straight. You are confusing the community > and casting poor light on a sister project. > > --David >
Quite surprised at the aggression of this, I was unaware that I was attacking Forrest. My apologies for my extreme ignorance. Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]