Thread: Re: [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List
On Thursday 06 November 2003 17:18, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Robert Treat writes: > > <rant> > > we don't need links, we need patches > > </rant> > > Let me ask you the questions that people always ask of us: > > How does one get involved? post proposals to pgsql-www and start coding > Where is the code? http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgweb/projdisplay.php > What is the plan? if you have an itch, scratch it... > Where is the roadmap? right now andreas' is working on multi-lingual capabilities. i have half an implementation of variable site width i'd love to finish off, and we have some pages for things like the release notes that we need to add to the dynamic site building scripts. on the advocacy site, there is a file called TODO in the main directory that has some issues in it that need to be addressed in the current system. potentially we will also need to add translated press kits and release notes to the system. on techdocs there is a todo.php file which is probably completely bogus. theres some indecision on the direction of this site. I would like to convert the whole thing to CVS, including the wiki pages that comprised the guides section. others are testing using bricolage to make a new site at which time some of the data would be transitioned over. i happen to think there are several files on this site that should be moved to the main www site, i'd be happy to expand on that if people start doing work on it. really the most important thing here is that we get some movement on the site in order to ditch the old VM the site lives on and get it on our new web VM. > Where can issues be discussed? pgsql-www@postgresql.org > Who is working on this? myself, dave page, devrim gunduz, andreas grabmller are the primary folks doing the work, though there are certainly others involved. [that guy marc seems to be involved somewhat ;-) ] > How can we help? never send an email saying "you guys should post such and such news item on the web site". instead submit the news item yourself and we can have it approved and on the site in much less time. :-) otherwise it works much like any other open source project, if there is something specific you want to work on, post a proposal or ask if anyone else is working on it on the -www list. let me also say on a personal note that if none of this looks interesting but there is something else that i am working on that you'd like to get involved in, drop me a line. that last thing i want to do is to continue to consolidate work around me, I'd much rather empower others to become regular contributors. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
Robert, > on techdocs there is a todo.php file which is probably completely bogus. > theres some indecision on the direction of this site. I would like to > convert the whole thing to CVS, including the wiki pages that comprised the > guides section. others are testing using bricolage to make a new site at > which time some of the data would be transitioned over. Yeah, that's me & Elein & David F. We feel pretty strongly that PostgreSQL needs a place where users can contribute to documentation and help other users without learning HTML, SGML, or CVS. Otherwise, we're throwing away a lot of potential contributions and ignoring a lot of the community that wants to help but find the barrier to entry too high. I also see Techdocs as a "test site" for maybe moving more parts of postgresql.org to a sophisticated CMS; while CVS is nice for version control, it does nothing to help control style consistency, dynamic linking, or multi-lingualism, which must all still be done 100% manually. However, we've been real sluggards about getting this up & running. So if you get the other stuff re-built and we're still lagging, then you'll have come up with a very persuasive argument to do things your way. > i happen to think > there are several files on this site that should be moved to the main www > site, i'd be happy to expand on that if people start doing work on it. Probably, yes. > really the most important thing here is that we get some movement on the > site in order to ditch the old VM the site lives on and get it on our new > web VM. On techdocs? What part of that needs to be migrated? -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 13:51, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > really the most important thing here is that we get some movement on the
> > site in order to ditch the old VM the site lives on and get it on our new
> > web VM.
>
> On techdocs? What part of that needs to be migrated?
>
Last I check it was the whole thing... techdocs runs on its own VM, the
other sites all run on a different VM. We need to kill the old VM, but
until we move techdocs to it's new home, we can't
Robert Treat
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Robert Treat wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 13:51, Josh Berkus wrote: > > > really the most important thing here is that we get some movement on the > > > site in order to ditch the old VM the site lives on and get it on our new > > > web VM. > > > > On techdocs? What part of that needs to be migrated? > > > > Last I check it was the whole thing... techdocs runs on its own VM, the > other sites all run on a different VM. We need to kill the old VM, but > until we move techdocs to it's new home, we can't And there is no pressure/hurry for this to be done ... its not a 'simple move', but a redesign based on new technology ... what is there now, works, so no pressure
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Robert Treat wrote: <snip> >>>On techdocs? What part of that needs to be migrated? >>> >> >>Last I check it was the whole thing... techdocs runs on its own VM, the >>other sites all run on a different VM. We need to kill the old VM, but >>until we move techdocs to it's new home, we can't > > And there is no pressure/hurry for this to be done ... its not a 'simple > move', but a redesign based on new technology ... what is there now, > works, so no pressure From memory, the OpenOffice.org surveys still run from the techdocs virtual machine too. That may or may not be the case these days, I just don't remember. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@postgresql.org)
Justin, > From memory, the OpenOffice.org surveys still run from the techdocs > virtual machine too. That may or may not be the case these days, I just > don't remember. Really? I thought that they were running from one of Sun's machines. Will check with Cristian. If we're hosting the surveys, I want a "Powered by PostgreSQL" bug on them, dammit. Those get 21,000 views a week. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Josh Berkus wrote: > Justin, > > > From memory, the OpenOffice.org surveys still run from the techdocs > > virtual machine too. That may or may not be the case these days, I just > > don't remember. > > Really? I thought that they were running from one of Sun's machines. Will > check with Cristian. > > If we're hosting the surveys, I want a "Powered by PostgreSQL" bug on them, > dammit. Those get 21,000 views a week. start of current access_log: 217.1.97.253 - - [08/Nov/2003:08:00:28 -0500] end of current access_log: 141.211.97.33 - - [10/Nov/2003:13:28:39 -0500] jobs# grep http://oosurvey.gratismania.ro/user/index.php access_log | egrep -v "images" | wc -l 2966 looks like its still well used ...
In fact: http://oosurvey.gratismania.ro/stats On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Josh Berkus wrote: > > > Justin, > > > > > From memory, the OpenOffice.org surveys still run from the techdocs > > > virtual machine too. That may or may not be the case these days, I just > > > don't remember. > > > > Really? I thought that they were running from one of Sun's machines. Will > > check with Cristian. > > > > If we're hosting the surveys, I want a "Powered by PostgreSQL" bug on them, > > dammit. Those get 21,000 views a week. > > start of current access_log: 217.1.97.253 - - [08/Nov/2003:08:00:28 -0500] > end of current access_log: 141.211.97.33 - - [10/Nov/2003:13:28:39 -0500] > > jobs# grep http://oosurvey.gratismania.ro/user/index.php access_log | egrep -v "images" | wc -l > 2966 > > looks like its still well used ... > >
Guys, > > > If we're hosting the surveys, I want a "Powered by PostgreSQL" bug on > > > them, dammit. Those get 21,000 views a week. Taken care of. We should get a button up soon. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco