At 15:23 13/12/2000 -0800, brian moseley wrote:
>On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Robin Berjon wrote:
>> I didn't mean to target you particularly there brian :)
>
>i know :)
Good, I didn't want any doubt on this :)
>another reason it never got off the ground is that it seemed
>to make a lot of sense to actually use mod_perl to serve the
>site, but from what i've heard, the powers that be on locus
>aren't interested in adding it.
I know. But what I thought at the time (and I think it still holds) was
that perl.apache.org doesn't need to be run under mod_perl. No one except
mod_perl addicts would really notice or care. Most of the content is more
or less static, at least it doesn't change all that often. The scheme I had
in mind was to have the content in some form and templates to make that
content look good, and a server located somewhere else that would commit
changes to perl.apache.org automatically when something changed in the
source. Using mod_perl there would help a lot anyway given that that site
is mirrored in many place and those places don't have mod_perl, or wouldn't
have it configured properly. If a feature really required something totally
dynamic, then I'm sure an external link wouldn't hurt anyone and there'd be
people to offer hosting for it. I would.
>we thought about moving perl.apache.org to rubel, but we
>never actually got around to it. ah well.
That would be cool, but it wouldn't solve the mirroring problem (unless we
killed mirroring of course).
>i'll reiterate a point i've made several times over the last
>year - it would make sense to retire perl.apache.org and
>build a couple new sites, one for developers and one for
>advocacy.
I totally agree with that, and that's one reason I think that take23.org is
a great idea. Afaik Baiju was all for naming one of the site modperl.org
back then so maybe with any luck he still is. I like take23 as a name, but
that's a modperl hacker's private joke. If modperl.org pointed there too,
it certainly wouldn't hurt.
-- robin b.
Change is inevitable except from a vending machine.
