Hi Joe,
On May 11, 2012, at 11:18 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote:
> With 1100 builds so far the ooo-site CMS instance
> is only 350 builds behind www.apache.org as the
> most-used CMS tree so far. I monitor the CMS logs
> daily to evaluate usage and this project publishes
> about as often as all our other projects combined,
> which really makes me wonder where we'd be here if
> the org had never created the CMS in the first place.
I wonder too, but it would have been very painful.
The enhancements made to the build process over the last year have made this use possible.
> The ooo-site is far and away the largest instance at
> over 9GB total. The reason I'm writing here is to
> ask general questions about user satisfaction with
> the CMS:
>
> 1) Is there any aspect of the CMS that needs immediate
> improvement?
I would like read_text_file to be able to handle BOM characters without issue.
> 2) Are you satisfied with the workflow, or are there areas
> that could stand improvement?
Pretty much am.
> 3) Is there anything that should be done to encourage more
> users who are not committers to use the CMS to submit patches
> to the list?
Direct submission of the patch to BZ or JIRA including name, etc.
Configured on a project by project basis.
> 4) Are there any UI features you'd like to see implemented,
> either in the web interface or the publication script?
Warnings when
(a) a staging build is in process.
(b) when the change is in lib or templates and might require more than an instant to stage.
>
>
> Thanks in advance for taking the time to answer a few of these!
You're welcome.
Regards,
Dave
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