Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-10 Thread David Wheeler
On Aug 9, 2004, at 2:44 PM, Kenny Gatdula wrote: Have you looked at blosxom? At first glance, it seems to have everything you're looking for. http://www.blosxom.com/ FWIW, the forthcoming Blosxom 3.0 will run under mod_perl. I'll help Rael to make sure of it. Regards, David smime.p7s Descripti

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-09 Thread Philippe M. Chiasson
Jeff Bisbee wrote: * Perrin Harkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Glancing at the YAML docs, it looks like putting "" between those would make them parseable as records, so maybe we'll use that after all. YAML is _very_ buggy. http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=YAML Also from the YAML

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-09 Thread Kenny Gatdula
Perrin Harkins wrote: Sure, with some small tweaks (add a date, remove separate story, remove reference, change author icon to story image). See http://php.net/ for an idea of what I'm going for. Have you looked at blosxom? At first glance, it seems to have everything you're looking for. http:

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-09 Thread Jeff Bisbee
* Perrin Harkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Glancing at the YAML docs, it looks like putting "" between those > would make them parseable as records, so maybe we'll use that after all. YAML is _very_ buggy. http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=YAML Also from the YAML POD... WA

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-09 Thread Stas Bekman
Perrin Harkins wrote: On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 14:59, Stas Bekman wrote: That's the whole point. In order to make things simple, it shouldn't require commit access or anything list that. We could even use a simplified version of slashdot, so people can submit stories, people can comment on them, ma

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-09 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 14:59, Stas Bekman wrote: > That's the whole point. In order to make things simple, it shouldn't > require commit access or anything list that. We could even use a > simplified version of slashdot, so people can submit stories, people can > comment on them, making it much m

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-09 Thread Philippe M. Chiasson
Perrin Harkins wrote: On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 14:42, Philippe M. Chiasson wrote: How about: Author: Philippe M. Chiasson Title: How mod_perl saved my life! Reference: http://www.cnn.com/mod_perl_saved_my_life.html Author Icon: http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/me.gif Category: Success Stories Abstract: Phi

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-09 Thread Stas Bekman
How about: Author: Philippe M. Chiasson Title: How mod_perl saved my life! Reference: http://www.cnn.com/mod_perl_saved_my_life.html Author Icon: http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/me.gif Category: Success Stories Abstract: Philippe was walking down the street one day and he was almost run over by a bus

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-09 Thread Stas Bekman
Perrin Harkins wrote: On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 14:12, Stas Bekman wrote: One way to do it would be to simply write into a large RSS file by hand, and let a script grab the last 10 of those for the real RSS feed and for generating the pages. Yuck. The front-end doesn't have to be anything format specif

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-09 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 14:42, Philippe M. Chiasson wrote: > How about: > > Author: Philippe M. Chiasson > Title: How mod_perl saved my life! > Reference: http://www.cnn.com/mod_perl_saved_my_life.html > Author Icon: http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/me.gif > Category: Success Stories > Abstract: Philippe

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-09 Thread Philippe M. Chiasson
Perrin Harkins wrote: On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 14:12, Stas Bekman wrote: One way to do it would be to simply write into a large RSS file by hand, and let a script grab the last 10 of those for the real RSS feed and for generating the pages. Yuck. The front-end doesn't have to be anything format speci

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-09 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 14:12, Stas Bekman wrote: > > One way to do it would be to simply write into a large RSS file by hand, > > and let a script grab the last 10 of those for the real RSS feed and for > > generating the pages. > > Yuck. The front-end doesn't have to be anything format specific.

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-09 Thread Stas Bekman
Perrin Harkins wrote: On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 05:25, Stas Bekman wrote: Philippe M. Chiasson wrote: How about POD or YAML for a simple format like that one ? Keeping the pool of possible authors/reporters as high as possible. +1 to stand clear of XXXml ;) I can't imagine that more people know YAML

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-09 Thread Philippe M. Chiasson
Uwe Voelker wrote: +1 to stand clear of XXXml ;) But RSS is XML. The format in which we edit or submit stories doesn't have to be XML, as long as XML can be _generated_ easily from it to create the RSS feeds What types of news should be published? - new page 'advocacy', see link ... - new success

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-09 Thread Stas Bekman
Uwe Voelker wrote: +1 to stand clear of XXXml ;) But RSS is XML. Yes, but it doesn't mean that the source should be written in XML. BTW, take a look at http://perl.apache.org/jobs/jobs.html which gets its feed from perl.org via this simple js: "JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://jobs.p

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-09 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 05:37, Uwe Voelker wrote: > What types of news should be published? > - new page 'advocacy', see link ... Yes. > - new success story, see link ... Yes. > - new success story, full text No, just a short description. Think blog. > Who writes the news? Me, and anyone else

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-09 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 05:25, Stas Bekman wrote: > Philippe M. Chiasson wrote: > > How about POD or YAML for a simple format like that one ? Keeping the > > pool of possible > > authors/reporters as high as possible. > > +1 to stand clear of XXXml ;) I can't imagine that more people know YAML tha

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-09 Thread Uwe Voelker
> +1 to stand clear of XXXml ;) But RSS is XML. What types of news should be published? - new page 'advocacy', see link ... - new success story, see link ... - new success story, full text Who writes the news? Bye, Uwe PS: Can we use cpan modules (like XML::RSS)? --

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-09 Thread Stas Bekman
Perrin Harkins wrote: On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 06:13, Uwe Voelker wrote: I would like to help. What needs to be done? Is it more html or perl coding? It's both. What I had in mind was a file that we would add news items to, probably in XML or some other format with a handy parser already written. T

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-09 Thread Stas Bekman
Philippe M. Chiasson wrote: Perrin Harkins wrote: On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 06:13, Uwe Voelker wrote: I would like to help. What needs to be done? Is it more html or perl coding? It's both. What I had in mind was a file that we would add news items to, probably in XML or some other format with

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-08 Thread Philippe M. Chiasson
Perrin Harkins wrote: On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 06:13, Uwe Voelker wrote: I would like to help. What needs to be done? Is it more html or perl coding? It's both. What I had in mind was a file that we would add news items to, probably in XML or some other format with a handy parser already writ

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-08 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 06:13, Uwe Voelker wrote: > I would like to help. > > What needs to be done? Is it more html or perl coding? It's both. What I had in mind was a file that we would add news items to, probably in XML or some other format with a handy parser already written. Then we need to

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-07 Thread Uwe Voelker
Hello Perrin, > I volunteered to work on this. If anyone else wants to help with > the > required changes to the site code, let me know. It is available for > download, and I have commit access so I can vet patches. I would like to help. What needs to be done? Is it more html or perl coding?

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-06 Thread Stas Bekman
Please don't forget to hit Reply-All. I'll ask to setup Reply-To header back to the list. Jeff Bisbee wrote: * Stas Bekman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Jeff, if you will start sending patching, very quickly you will get a commit access to make you more productive. That applies for anybody else wh

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-06 Thread Philippe M. Chiasson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stas Bekman wrote: | Philippe M. Chiasson wrote: | |>> BTW, who currently maintains the perl.apache.org site? | | |> All the people with write privileges to the modperl-site are : |> stas,cholet,ask,randyk,dougm,geoff,gozer, |> rse,fdc,khera,richter,ix,

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-06 Thread Stas Bekman
Philippe M. Chiasson wrote: BTW, who currently maintains the perl.apache.org site? All the people with write privileges to the modperl-site are : stas,cholet,ask,randyk,dougm,geoff,gozer, rse,fdc,khera,richter,ix,dharris,jochen,ged, perrin,moseley,pereinar,theory Actually it's not the case. modper

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-06 Thread Philippe M. Chiasson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Perrin Harkins wrote: | On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 21:27, Jeff Bisbee wrote: | |> BTW, who currently maintains the perl.apache.org site? Once you |> get press releases and news stories rolling out, I think they |> shold be on the home page. They should als

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-06 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 21:27, Jeff Bisbee wrote: > BTW, who currently maintains the perl.apache.org site? Once you get > press releases and news stories rolling out, I think they shold be on > the home page. They should also be syndicated via RSS to reach more > people. I volunteered to work on t

Re: mod_perl Public Relations

2004-08-06 Thread Philippe M. Chiasson
Jeff Bisbee wrote: Just spoke to Gavin Estey, the current Perl Foundation Public Relations chair, and he's agreed to help out. That's great news! He should be joining the list shortly. Been _very_ busy since I got back from OSCON and was finally able to sign up to advocacy list last night. Wel