Jeff, I'll take one step forward and volunteer, how can I help? Quite happy to maintain html, answer email, and bludgeon scripts Cheers, Allen K ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 6:57 PM Subject: [REBOL] rebol.org purpose (was "archive" ) Re:(4) > > What people are saying about REBOL.org: > > > Andrew said: > > > > If improvements were made to this script, such as converting "<" to "<" > > and similar modifications were made, could this new script then be > > installed/added to the REBOL.org site? > > > > Cheryl said: > > > > Well, I hope whoever maintains rebol.org will not ignore you any longer. You > > have presented two very good solutions. Perhaps, one day we'll learn who is > > actually maintaining that site and makes the decisions. > > > > Ted said: > > > > If you think Rebol.org needs better technology (and, of course, it > > does), a good response would be to provide the REBOL scripts that can > > do the job the way you would like. From REBOL's viewpoint, it may be > > better to leave it bare bones, hoping that someone will come along and > > volunteer to improve it. > > > > Right now, I think a lot of us would prefer REBOL put their extremely > > limited resources into getting REBOL/View and REBOL/Command out the > > door. Any of us could help to improve the Web site if we chose, but > > right now only REBOL Tech can work on these other products. > > > > Elan said: > > > > Then [the changes] should be made. Perhaps some people could > > declare themselves responsible for the submission script and whoever > > is managing the script can release the source to this group? > > > > Bob said (in regards to super rebol.org wikiness): > > > > I am also not about to ask REBOL Technologies to "take this over" > > as they have a full plate. Why slow them up when we on the outside > > have the time/resources of our own to make it happen. > > > Welp, I sincerely hope this energy spewing forth about > rebol.org is a signal of people eager to make the site > better. With that in mind, I dropped what I was doing > tonight and revamped for public consumption the submit-bot > script so that ya'll can hack it, improve it, fix it, > etc. and get a sense for what rebol.org is presently doing. > > Download it at: http://rebol.org/internal/submit-bot.r > > A couple times before I've BEGGED people to help rebol.org > and the silence was amazing. Sterling and I, along with > Andrew Grossman have been the creators of the scripts there > when time allowed, which is less and less all the time. We > wanted to get something up there that mostly ran, that > soaked up scripts, and provided a threaded mailing list > archive. We weren't even asked to do it by Carl or anyone > else in the company. We just felt someone had to get that > ball rolling so we did it after hours. There's certainly > kinks in those scripts, and forget about the low budget > appearance of the site. But it's there and it generally > works. There's more than 110 scripts in the site, and the > mailing list has thousands of messages processed and > archived. > > We wanted to get it off to a good start, but we can't > possibly maintain it while doing our day jobs as developers > on REBOL. So we've longed for someone to leap up from the > community: a scripter extraordinaire who wanted to own the > site, take pride in it, help it to prosper and grow. If > someone really wanted to take the project on, manage > changes to the system sent in, etc. then we'd happily turn > over the account and break a champagne bottle across the > stern. > > Imagine yourself maintaining the flagship website of the > REBOL community! The site is a well run linux box with > REBOL cgi, as well as most all other unix utilities you'd > expect. > > Somebody take this site over or I will loose all faith in > humanity. ;-) > > -jeff > >
