RE: Suggestion...

2003-02-12 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> There are clear instructions in the jakarta web site on how to handle > cvs through ssh ... This sort of information is scattered across the *.apache.org sites. There are also instructions for doing it at http://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html#general. Oddly there is a separate section on C

Re: Suggestion...

2003-02-12 Thread Leo Simons
Noel J. Bergman wrote: David, I agree that there should be an e-mail. But it should be short, and consist of little more than a reference to the web site. All of this information should be available on the web site for review and update. As that content is enhanced, e-mail can go out to [EMAIL P

RE: Suggestion...

2003-02-12 Thread Noel J. Bergman
David, I agree that there should be an e-mail. But it should be short, and consist of little more than a reference to the web site. All of this information should be available on the web site for review and update. As that content is enhanced, e-mail can go out to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - forward

Re: Suggestion...

2003-02-12 Thread Aaron Bannert
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 02:12 PM, David Reid wrote: an email that is automatically sent to new committers outlining the "extra" things that becoming a committer on an ASF project bring with them. The aim is to provide a sort of "Welcome to the ASF community" note. I wonder if somethi

RE: Suggestion...

2003-02-12 Thread O'brien, Tim
> I think it could/should contain things like > - forwarding instructions for the @apache.org email address > - contacts for common problems > - information about the committers list and the reason for it > - information on opt-in lists such as licensing, community - A pointer towards instructions

Re: Suggestion...

2003-02-12 Thread Santiago Gala
David Reid wrote: (...) I think it could/should contain things like - forwarding instructions for the @apache.org email address - contacts for common problems - information about the committers list and the reason for it - information on opt-in lists such as licensing, community If there are other

Suggestion...

2003-02-12 Thread David Reid
It was pointed out to me in a private email that one thing we don't do very well is advertise the existence of things like this list to new committers! We should change this at once :) I'm not in favour of proposals being posted to this list, so please don't vote on this! - If you have nothing to

mailing list for apache-related opportunies

2003-02-12 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
just in case you weren't aware of it, i run a mailing list for people interested in hearing about apache-related opportunities. speaking, jobs, teaching, ... ; web server, java, xml, ... http://apache-server.com/opportunities.html a couple that have just come in (partial excerpts; full details b

Re: Licensing again.

2003-02-12 Thread Ceki Gülcü
Excellent initiative. You might want to share it with community@ before sending it to RMS. Is there a way to copy the FSF as a group and not just RMS? I am directing the discussion to community@ according to Sam's suggestion. At 08:26 12.02.2003 -0500, you wrote: No, it is not up to the ASF. Howe

Re: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality (fwd)

2003-02-12 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Brian Behlendorf wrote: > Heh. Familiar? :) Well known since the early '60 in general social science, antropology, reologie :-) though dating back to the last century. I guess this is hitting mainstream now. Dw --

Re: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality (fwd)

2003-02-12 Thread Ben Hyde
The power law thing is indeed quite interesting stuff. I'm happy to see it's getting more mainstream attention. It takes a long time to become comfortable with the ideas around it. gs. For example why is the ranking of people's last or first names distributed this way, the size of hearts i

Re: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality (fwd)

2003-02-12 Thread Santiago Gala
Brian Behlendorf wrote: Heh. Familiar? :) Brian -- Forwarded message -- Date: 11 Feb 2003 20:26:01 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/1740233 Posted by: michael,