Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver on GitHub

2010-04-09 Thread Jeff Rogers

Dossy Shiobara wrote:

Hi,

So, I've finally gone crazy


>  If

you have any positive comments and/or suggestions, don't hesitate to get
in touch with me: I'd love to hear what you think.

AOLserver's not dead, yet.  ;-)


Also while you're at it, is the chat logger still running?

And would anyone else be interested in moving the "official" aolserver 
chat from irc to a more modern and functional jabber server (perhaps 
with a bridge, like the tcler's chat has)?


-J


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Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver on GitHub

2010-04-09 Thread Jeff Rogers

Dossy Shiobara wrote:

Hi,

So, I've finally gone crazy and have started pushing the contents of the
CVS repository from SourceForge up to GitHub:

 http://aolserver.github.com/
 http://github.com/aolserver


I think in general this is a good thing.  In fact, I was just thinking 
about doing the same thing myself, except self-hosting with fossil 
instead of git.  :)   (no holy wars please)


While you're making updates, some of the links on www.aolserver.com are 
bad - the 'Tcl API' link ends up point to dev.aolserver.com which is 
apparently dead; some other stuff is flaky or slow (the panoptic.com 
wiki with the good docs often seems sluggish).  If you could fix up a 
few of these broken-ish links, that'd be nice.


Cheers,
-J


I'm hoping this will make it easier for people to fork the code, make
their own individual changes, and share those changes with the rest of
the community.  I'm hoping this will effectively eliminate any previous
barriers to contibution - fork the code on github as much as you'd like
in your own account, share your changes with whoever you please.

Is this an "official" change?  Of course not!  The code still lives in
CVS at SourceForge, like it always has - but now a copy with full CVS
history is up at GitHub, as well.  At this point, what does it mean to
be "official" anyway, right?

As of right now, I've only imported the "aolserver" module from CVS into
GitHub.  Over the next several weeks, I plan to import all the modules
from CVS, but this takes time.

A nice feature of GitHub is the included "Issues" system, their Wiki,
and their static page hosting.  If I get really ambitious, I might look
to move as much of the AOLserver documentation as I can into the GitHub
Pages area.

As usual, feel free to flame me for running off into the weeds and just
doing something without "getting consensus" or "involving the community"
but I'm hoping at least a few of you will find this work worthwhile.  If
you have any positive comments and/or suggestions, don't hesitate to get
in touch with me: I'd love to hear what you think.

AOLserver's not dead, yet.  ;-)





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[AOLSERVER] AOLserver on GitHub

2010-04-09 Thread Dossy Shiobara
Hi,

So, I've finally gone crazy and have started pushing the contents of the
CVS repository from SourceForge up to GitHub:

http://aolserver.github.com/
http://github.com/aolserver

I'm hoping this will make it easier for people to fork the code, make
their own individual changes, and share those changes with the rest of
the community.  I'm hoping this will effectively eliminate any previous
barriers to contibution - fork the code on github as much as you'd like
in your own account, share your changes with whoever you please.

Is this an "official" change?  Of course not!  The code still lives in
CVS at SourceForge, like it always has - but now a copy with full CVS
history is up at GitHub, as well.  At this point, what does it mean to
be "official" anyway, right?

As of right now, I've only imported the "aolserver" module from CVS into
GitHub.  Over the next several weeks, I plan to import all the modules
from CVS, but this takes time.

A nice feature of GitHub is the included "Issues" system, their Wiki,
and their static page hosting.  If I get really ambitious, I might look
to move as much of the AOLserver documentation as I can into the GitHub
Pages area.

As usual, feel free to flame me for running off into the weeds and just
doing something without "getting consensus" or "involving the community"
but I'm hoping at least a few of you will find this work worthwhile.  If
you have any positive comments and/or suggestions, don't hesitate to get
in touch with me: I'd love to hear what you think.

AOLserver's not dead, yet.  ;-)


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Panoptic Computer Network   | http://panoptic.com/
  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)


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