Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Chris Warburton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chris Warburton * Package name: ocportal Version : 6.1.1 Upstream Author : Chris Graham * URL : http://www.ocportal.com * License : CPAL Programming Lang: PHP Description : ocPortal is a Content Management Syste

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, May 06, 2011 08:56:21 AM Chris Warburton wrote: > Programming Lang: PHP > Description : ocPortal is a Content Management System for building > and maintaining a dynamic website How many content management systems written in php does Debian need? Scott K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 06 mai 2011 à 09:11 -0400, Scott Kitterman a écrit : > On Friday, May 06, 2011 08:56:21 AM Chris Warburton wrote: > > Programming Lang: PHP > > Description : ocPortal is a Content Management System for building > > and maintaining a dynamic website > > How many content managem

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Rens Houben
In other news for Fri, May 06, 2011 at 09:11:08AM -0400, Scott Kitterman has been seen typing: > On Friday, May 06, 2011 08:56:21 AM Chris Warburton wrote: > > Programming Lang: PHP > > Description : ocPortal is a Content Management System for building > > and maintaining a dynamic website

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, May 06, 2011 09:21:08 AM Rens Houben wrote: > In other news for Fri, May 06, 2011 at 09:11:08AM -0400, Scott Kitterman has been seen typing: > > On Friday, May 06, 2011 08:56:21 AM Chris Warburton wrote: > > > Programming Lang: PHP > > > Description : ocPortal is a Content Manag

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 15:16 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 06 mai 2011 à 09:11 -0400, Scott Kitterman a écrit : > > On Friday, May 06, 2011 08:56:21 AM Chris Warburton wrote: > > > Programming Lang: PHP > > > Description : ocPortal is a Content Management System for building

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 05/06/2011 10:49 AM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > What's up with the hate? It's always convenient to have a package in > Debian, instead of hunting for it upstream. If it rots in Debian, then > it can easily be removed again (or left in Unstable). Wrong. Every additional package costs the whol

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Chris Warburton
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 09:11 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Friday, May 06, 2011 08:56:21 AM Chris Warburton wrote: > > Programming Lang: PHP > > Description : ocPortal is a Content Management System for building > > and maintaining a dynamic website > > How many content management syst

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 11:00 -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On 05/06/2011 10:49 AM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > What's up with the hate? It's always convenient to have a package in > > Debian, instead of hunting for it upstream. If it rots in Debian, then > > it can easily be removed again (or le

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 09:11 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Friday, May 06, 2011 08:56:21 AM Chris Warburton wrote: > > Programming Lang: PHP > > Description : ocPortal is a Content Management System for building > > and maintaining a dynamic website > > How many content management syst

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, May 06, 2011 11:23:50 AM Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 09:11 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On Friday, May 06, 2011 08:56:21 AM Chris Warburton wrote: > > > Programming Lang: PHP > > > Description : ocPortal is a Content Management System for > > > buil

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 11:29 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Friday, May 06, 2011 11:23:50 AM Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 09:11 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > On Friday, May 06, 2011 08:56:21 AM Chris Warburton wrote: > > > > Programming Lang: PHP > > > > Descri

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Chris Warburton
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 17:14 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 11:00 -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > > On 05/06/2011 10:49 AM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > What's up with the hate? It's always convenient to have a package in > > > Debian, instead of hunting for it upstrea

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Chris Warburton
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 11:29 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Friday, May 06, 2011 11:23:50 AM Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 09:11 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > On Friday, May 06, 2011 08:56:21 AM Chris Warburton wrote: > > > > Programming Lang: PHP > > > > Descri

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 13:24 -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On 05/06/2011 12:14 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > Q: How many content management systems written in php does Debian need? > > A: How about zero? > > > > Not exactly helpful. > > When developers are passionately opposed to a particula

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 05/06/2011 12:14 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Q: How many content management systems written in php does Debian need? > A: How about zero? > > Not exactly helpful. When developers are passionately opposed to a particular technology (and not without reason here, I think,) they can be a bit

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 06 May 2011 19:39:26 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 13:24 -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > > On 05/06/2011 12:14 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > Q: How many content management systems written in php does Debian need? > > > A: How about zero? > > > > > > Not exactl

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
We can stop CCing the bug# now, as this subthread is apparently no longer about the ITP itself, but about "proper" conduct in discussing an ITP. On 05/06/2011 01:39 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Strange that you read 'support' into my responses. By support, I hope you understand I mean the De

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 20:03 +0300, George Danchev wrote: > On Friday 06 May 2011 19:39:26 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 13:24 -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > > > On 05/06/2011 12:14 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > > Q: How many content management systems written in php d

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 13:56 -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > We can stop CCing the bug# now, as this subthread is apparently no > longer about the ITP itself, but about "proper" conduct in discussing an > ITP. > > On 05/06/2011 01:39 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > Strange that you read 'support'

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 05/06/2011 02:39 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > I was responding to someone who said I 'supported' inclusion of proposed > package. Ah, I misunderstood. My apologies. > Yeah, good point. So it's not enough for packager to say he will be > responsive to problems? Packages, once uploaded, en

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 14:54 -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On 05/06/2011 02:39 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > I was responding to someone who said I 'supported' inclusion of proposed > > package. > > Ah, I misunderstood. My apologies. Welcome. > > Yeah, good point. So it's not enough for pac

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 06 May 2011 20:30:32 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 20:03 +0300, George Danchev wrote: > > On Friday 06 May 2011 19:39:26 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 13:24 -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > > > > On 05/06/2011 12:14 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wro

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread brian m. carlson
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 08:33:27PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > I'm curious though, why is there an objection against CMS inclusions in > general? When there are many packages which provide similar functionality (whether that is a CMS, a window manager, or whatever) then it's reasonable to

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 06 May 2011, Chris Warburton wrote: > Hi Scott. ocPortal isn't massively widespread compared to other systems, > so there's obviously less experimental proof of security. We had a > security hole a few years ago; this was before I got involved, but > there's details here http://en.wikipedia

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Fri, 06 May 2011, George Danchev wrote: > * writing a meaningful ITP helps to grab attention, especially if there are > multiple alternatives. Prove your point (ref: I'm upstream and I want to > maintain it, doesn't magically buy you a slot into the archive) There's nothing to buy... onl

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-07 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 07 May 2011 09:41:34 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, Hi, > On Fri, 06 May 2011, George Danchev wrote: > > * writing a meaningful ITP helps to grab attention, especially if there > > are multiple alternatives. Prove your point (ref: I'm upstream and I > > want to maintain it, doesn't magi

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-07 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 6 May 2011, Chris Warburton wrote: On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 11:29 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Friday, May 06, 2011 11:23:50 AM Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 09:11 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Friday, May 06, 2011 08:56:21 AM Chris Warburton wrote: Programm