Re: automatic nagging for board reports?
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Leo Simons wrote: > I believe many ASF projects are chronically late in sending in status > reports in time for the board meeting. That's bad and they should be > nagged about it. Since manual nagging is a chore, how about a small > script in a crontab somewhere that automates sending out a timely reminder? The schedule is in committers/board/committee-info.txt. The mod_perl one is due February, May, August and November so I put this in the crontab of one of my boxes: 0 0 1 2,5,8,11 * echo "remember remember " | mail -s "mod_perl PMC report due this month" [EMAIL PROTECTED] which reminds me to remind the PMC to make a report. :) - ask -- http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/ - http://develooper.com/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: establish a trust relationship (Re: missing signatures)
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Joshua Slive wrote: > A chain of trust can have more than one link. Assuming there is someone > in Japan who has once been to a country with an ASF member, geography need > not be a barrier. Eh, there are many other reasonable ways to establish a chain of trust than a personal meeting. In some contexts they might even be superior. Some combination of the following would be as hard to attack as pretending to be someone else in a personal meeting: I mostly know you as the guy who sends mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] You send me your key signature from that address; I respond with a token and you send the token back. Maybe afterwards I wait a month or two and follow your use of that email address. If you keep sending useful patches to similar things as you've done in the past, that's a good indication. We have postal addresses of ASF members on file. Tokens and key signatures can be sent back and forth via postal mail. Likewise for telephone numbers; figuring out a time to make two calls across the world should be feasible. Some people include their key signature in all their mails. - ask -- http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/ - http://develooper.com/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newsletter.
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: > announce@httpd.apache.org and announce@apache.org > > The former is for http server project's activities and the latter is > for the ASF-Wide activities, right? Yes. It'd be great with the newsletter on that list, IMO. If it actually got used ASF-wide for announcements of new releases I'd probably unsubscribe, but a quarterly newsletter would be great. - ask -- http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/ - http://develooper.com/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WORA Considered Evil ;-)
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, James Duncan Davidson wrote: > By changing their id after they launch as root. setuid. Pretty common > thing to do. See man setuid. With qmail it's even more separated. There's a small program that opens the port and then drops root. The smtpd itself never has any special access. The qmail mail system is one of the most beautiful pieces of software around; making another mail system without looking at qmail carefully is silly. - ask -- http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/ - http://develooper.com/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How ASF membership works and what it means
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Santiago Gala wrote: [...] > I still feel shocked when I (rarely) see a JavaVM crash with a seg fault > (out of memory always, maybe some beta JDK at times). The safety of the > JavaVM contrasts a lot with the dangers of C/C++ environments, and makes > it compelling to write a java alternative even when good native > libraries do exist. This is the viral character of it. I wonder > is "parrot" will do the same for perl/python/ruby. I think it has always been true for those languages that people often choose to reimplement something in that language instead of wrapping a C module. Some of the big things that Parrot hopefully will bring are: easy interop between languages that are targeted to the parrot VM (use Python and Perl libraries in your BASIC program) Shared VM development between the various dynamic languages instead of having everyone roll their own as it happens now. Dan Sugalski wrote an article about why we can't just run Perl, Python or Ruby on the JVM or CLI: http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/blog/archives/000151.html - ask ps. http://oreilly.com/parrot/ was the April Fools joke, http://www.parrotcode.org/ is not. :-) -- http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/ - http://develooper.com/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How BSD hurts OpenSource
On Tue, 13 May 2003, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: > > > > What happened to the license FAQ there was talk about a while ago? > > you mean http://www.apache.org/foundation/licence-FAQ.html ? Yes, that's what I meant. Except the specific FAQ entry I am missing is the one explaining the Apache view on "BSD style licenses vs [other popular open source licenses]". And I can't seem to find that page browsing the site. It doesn't have an obvious link from http://www.apache.org/foundation/ or from the FAQ page. - ask -- http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/ - http://develooper.com/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How BSD hurts OpenSource
On Tue, 13 May 2003, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: The GPL nuts have taken over the word "free", just like certain political views are using the words "free" and "freedom" to mean "the way we like it". What happened to the license FAQ there was talk about a while ago? - ask -- http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/ - http://develooper.com/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [off-topic-just for fun] - Maps and zoom-in
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Jeff Trawick wrote: > can somebody remind me of where to find the address->long/lat mapping > for the US? I'm about a mile off on the new zoom in and would like to > try adding some digits. http://geourl.org/ has a couple of links. - ask -- ask bjoern hansen, http://askbjoernhansen.com/ !try; develooper llc,http://www.develooper.com/ do(); - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
committers / project list
I updated the committers / projects list: http://cvs.apache.org/~ask/ http://cvs.apache.org/~ask/people.html http://cvs.apache.org/~ask/committers.html - ask -- ask bjoern hansen, http://askbjoernhansen.com/ !try; develooper llc,http://www.develooper.com/ do(); - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RFC] prototype committers list with links
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: This will be the last mail, I promise. I made the script make one more page, with just the names and links: http://cvs.apache.org/~ask/people.html - ask -- ask bjoern hansen, http://askbjoernhansen.com/ !try; develooper llc,http://www.develooper.com/ do();
Re: [RFC] prototype committers list with links
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: [...] > The "isin" sub was too much for my Perl eyes to bear, so I > refactored the script to have nicer code, process both lists in one > run, not call external programs and be better at finding links (the > old version missed most of them). > > http://cvs.apache.org/~ask/committers.pl oh, one more thing. It needs the LWP::Simple module. I asked root@ to install it. Until then you can run it with export PERL5LIB=/home/ask/perl/lib ~ask/public_html/committers.pl as I installed the module in my home dir for now. - ask -- ask bjoern hansen, http://askbjoernhansen.com/ !try; develooper llc,http://www.develooper.com/ do();
Re: [RFC] prototype committers list with links
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Kurt Schrader wrote: > > In the case of Maven, it would seem to me that a or > > element inside elements in project.xml files would be most > > appropriate. > > Working on adding element as we speak. Gah; bike shedding at work! Just having each project (and the member list) keep it updated via their own pages seems much simpler and in a very simple way it makes it clear that the committer did an opt-in. - ask -- ask bjoern hansen, http://askbjoernhansen.com/ !try; develooper llc,http://www.develooper.com/ do();
Re: [RFC] prototype committers list with links
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Sam Ruby wrote: > Source to the script can be found at: > > http://cvs.apache.org/~rubys/committers.pl The "isin" sub was too much for my Perl eyes to bear, so I refactored the script to have nicer code, process both lists in one run, not call external programs and be better at finding links (the old version missed most of them). http://cvs.apache.org/~ask/committers.pl the output should be the same though (except for more links): http://cvs.apache.org/~ask/committers.html http://cvs.apache.org/~ask/projects.html There are still a few "foo bar=\"blah\"" entries that should be changed to qq[foo bar="blah"] (*) but I want to sleep now... (*) see http://archive.develooper.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg3.html - ask -- ask bjoern hansen, http://askbjoernhansen.com/ !try; develooper llc,http://www.develooper.com/ do();
Re: @apache web pages
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Steven Noels wrote: > > updated nightly from everyone who has a public_html/index.html . > > Cool! > > How about people having a homepage at daedalus? I made a .htaccess file in my public_html directory on icarus with Redirect /~ask/ http://www.apache.org/~ask/ and a placeholder index.html file. - ask
