Re: Should HelpWanted be shut down?

2024-10-25 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 4:06 PM sebb wrote: > ...** So is there any point in keeping the system running, or should it > be shut down? **.. +1 for shutting down helpwanted.apache.org , it doesn't look like we are maintaining it. > ...[Note: it would be sensible to keep a static page explaining wh

Re: Should HelpWanted be shut down?

2024-10-25 Thread Xuanwo
> Are you offering to help build it? I once created a website called "I Feel Lucky" that randomly selects a good first issue from my repository for redirection. I'm not sure if that's what we want. On Thu, Oct 24, 2024, at 23:59, sebb wrote: > On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 at 16:36, Xuanwo wrote: >> >>

Re: Should HelpWanted be shut down?

2024-10-25 Thread sebb
On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 at 16:36, Xuanwo wrote: > > +1 to shut it down. > > We can rebuild it using GitHub APIs as needed, eliminating the need for heavy > infrastructure like Elasticsearch. Are you offering to help build it? > On Thu, Oct 24, 2024, at 23:23, Christopher wrote: > > An alternative w

Re: Should HelpWanted be shut down?

2024-10-25 Thread Christopher
An alternative would be to automatically link to open issues in GitHub.com/Apache with specific tags, like "help wanted" or "good first issue". This is similar to what hacktoberfest does to help participants discover new issues. Merely having a listing of issues on GitHub would be much easier to su

Re: Should HelpWanted be shut down?

2024-10-25 Thread sebb
On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 at 08:41, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 4:06 PM sebb wrote: > > ...** So is there any point in keeping the system running, or should it > > be shut down? **.. > > +1 for shutting down helpwanted.apache.org , it doesn't look like we > are maintaining it

Draft retirement page for helpwanted

2024-10-25 Thread sebb
Assuming the retirement goes ahead, there needs to be a replacement landing page. Here's a start: https://github.com/apache/comdev-site/blob/helpwanted-nomore/source/helpwanted-retired.md Tweaks welcome - To unsubscribe, e-mail

Re: [jira] [Commented] (COMDEV-547) Reporter appears to be down with 503 Service Unavailable

2024-10-25 Thread Rich Bowen
On Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 7:40 PM Sebb (Jira) wrote: > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMDEV-547?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=17892639#comment-17892639 > ] > > Sebb commented on COMDEV-547: > - > >

Re: Should HelpWanted be shut down?

2024-10-25 Thread Xuanwo
+1 to shut it down. We can rebuild it using GitHub APIs as needed, eliminating the need for heavy infrastructure like Elasticsearch. On Thu, Oct 24, 2024, at 23:23, Christopher wrote: > An alternative would be to automatically link to open issues in > GitHub.com/Apache with specific tags, like "

Re: Retirement of HelpWanted.apache.org

2024-10-25 Thread Gary Gregory
Thank you for the heads up Sebb. All good. Gary (Commons) On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 7:48 PM sebb wrote: > [Bcc to > commons,curator,cxf,datafu,directory,groovy,httpd,impala,jmeter,mahout,myfaces,oodt,openoffice,poi,sis,tika > so replies are directed to comdev only] > > Comdev have decided that th

Retirement of HelpWanted.apache.org

2024-10-25 Thread sebb
[Bcc to commons,curator,cxf,datafu,directory,groovy,httpd,impala,jmeter,mahout,myfaces,oodt,openoffice,poi,sis,tika so replies are directed to comdev only] Comdev have decided that the HelpWanted app should be retired as it is not worth the maintenance effort -- it is barely used. It will be shu