On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:31:34 +1100, David Crossley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Henri Yandell wrote:
> > Ceki G?lc? wrote:
> > >
> > > Although many ASF members are represented in the incubator, it is not
> > > representative of the ASF because it is more coercive than the rest of
> > > the foundation. Some of the coercion is unavoidable, e.g. IP issues,
> > > some of it mildly irritating, e.g. forrest, and then there is the
> > > community requirement.
> >
> > Not sure I understand this. Only one here that would seem to cause a
> > problem would be the forrest bit. If incubating a project, I would
> > definitely want to minimize the amount of time spent having to do
> > forrest things.
>
> Bullshit! Lets analyse that ...
>
> 1) Create the project Status page.
>
> cd /svn/asf/incubator
> svn up
> cd site-author/projects/
> cp incubation-status-template.html ${project}.html
> vi ${project}.html ... edit the content.
> cd ..
> vi site.xml ... create you entry: copy a line and change two words
> svn diff; svn commit
>
> ... that would take you 15 minutes, including the 10 minutes for
> editing the content.
>
> 2) Publish the status page (without forrest)
> http://incubator.apache.org/howtoparticipate.html
> <quote>
> You can just commit the source changes and leave it to
> someone else to generate the website.
> </quote>
>
> Email the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, and ask someone to do it for you.
> Actually, you don't need this step because many of us watch the
> commits mailing lists and someone will do it.
>
> Now if you want to do the generation and publishing yourself
> using a local installation of forrest then follow:
> http://incubator.apache.org/howtoparticipate.html#Updating+the+site
>
> If you don't, then that is all. Show me what causes you a problem.
>
> > I assume the project's website itself does not need to be in Forrest,
> > just their status page. Roller will be interesting as their site runs
> > on Roller :)
>
> No need to "assume" ... the documentation says so explicitly.
> http://incubator.apache.org/howtoparticipate.html#Project+Website+Howto
> <quote>
> Each project can use whatever documentation system that it chooses.
> Perhaps use a fancy documentation management system like Forrest
> or Maven, or just use simple raw html pages.
> </quote>
>
> Please get your facts straight. You are confusing the community
> and casting poor light on a sister project.
>
> --David
>
Quite surprised at the aggression of this, I was unaware that I was
attacking Forrest.
My apologies for my extreme ignorance.
Hen
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