There already is a PayPal account. See http://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html#Paypal -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Blog: http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/
"Alan D. Cabrera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 26/11/2003 01:19:35 AM: > The amount of energy that we are expending on this is silly. Can we not > just start a paypal account to get the infrastructure people a tape > drive? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Brian Behlendorf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 3:12 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [committers] can you build the website? > > > > On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Aaron Mulder wrote: > > > The truth is, if the whole thing is generated from source files > in > > > CVS, so long as the actual source code is backed up, the web site > CAN be > > > recovered in a relatively painless fashion -- just restore the CVS > > backup > > > and build the site. Am I missing something? > > > > Others have made the point about the infrastructure team not wanting > to > > have to learn N groups' build systems in case we need to restore from > CVS. > > I wanted to add that even if you're storing 190 MB of generated > content, > > the actual amount of generated content that *changes* each time you do > a > > rebuild should be small, a proportion of the scale of other code > changes > > that happened or other documentation changes in the corresponding > amounts > > of time. If every generated page ends up being different from the > last > > time the build was run for something spurious like adding a timestamp, > > perhaps that could be re-examined. > > > > Brian > > >
