On Thursday, July 14, 2005 11:28:24 AM -0400 Rodney M Dyer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It appears that OpenAFS 1.3.8500 is out now. I think the "1.3.8400"
string in the release flash needs to be fixed...
11-Jul-2005 - OpenAFS 1.3.85 Released!
OpenAFS 1.3.84 represents the new stable Windows release, and
includes a multitude of bug fixes as well as several new features. For
Unix platforms, 1.3.85 includes several important fixes for bugs in
previous versions of OpenAFS 1.3.
I see no "1.3.8400" string. I do see a "1.3.84".
If you're going to complain about an obvious oversight, you could at least
make an effort to avoid the same kind of mistake in your complaint.
Fixed.
Also, can someone please add a line break after the news flash for the
following item...
22-Mar-2005 - AFS & Kerberos Best Practices Workshop
The second annual AFS & Kerberos Best Practices Workshop will be
held June 20-24, 2005 at Carnegie Mellon University. The workshop will
include two days of tutorials and three days of talks including keynote
speaker Mike Kazar, one of the original developers of AFS. For more
information or to submit a talk or paper, see
http://www.pmw.org/afsbpw05/.
Looks fine to me. There are not line breaks after any of these items; they
are elements in a DL. We do insert a blank paragraph after those items
which contain bullet lists, since it seems that otherwise some browsers
like to eat the whitespace between the bullet list and the next news item.
Please pay attention to cosmetic detail. In order for OpenAFS to grow,
people need to think it is managed by competent individuals, and the web
site is the only "face" for the group right now.
We do pay attention to cosmetic detail, to some extent. However, our core
competency is in developing and maintaining high-quality distributed
filesystem software. Would you rather we spent our time doing that, or
looking at every possible Web browser in the universe (you didn't say what
yours was) to make sure everything looks pixel-perfect.
For the most part, I subscribe to the original design philosophy of the
web, which holds that content providers are responsible for content, and
the user's browser is responsible for form. People who forget this tend to
produce web sites filled with tiny images, gaudy graphics, and features
that are not widely impemented, or at least not widely implemented
correctly, all in the name of producing beautiful graphic design, generally
at the expense of usability or actually getting the information out.
I've seen plenty of pages that must look great on Windows, because between
the broken colors, text obscured by graphics, and badly-aligned images, I
can't read them at all. The OpenAFS page may not the result of
professional "web design", but it's _readable_ and _usable_.
As for whether the project is "managed by competent individuals" and what
affect that might have on whether it "grows".... OpenAFS is not a company;
it is an open-source software product. While it's sort of cool to be able
to say that some major company or institution is using AFS (or even, to
know it but _not_ be able to say it), we are not in it for market share.
As an AFS administrator, I care a hell of a lot more about whether the
software works than about what someone I've never heard of thinks about my
competence as a software developer based on how well or poorly his browser
renders the OpenAFS web site.
And, why is it that when I right-click to download the source
distribution "openafs-1.3.85-src.tar.bz2" the dialog saves the file as
"openafs-1.3.85-src.tar.tar" ???
I don't know. Perhaps your browser is trying to "protect" you by making
sure a file whose content-type is application/x-tar always has an extension
of ".tar". It works fine for me.
-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sr. Research Systems Programmer
School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA
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