Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact community-help@apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list community@apache.org Received: (qmail 51030 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2002 22:30:23 -0000 Received: from scotch.ics.uci.edu (128.195.24.168) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 27 Nov 2002 22:30:23 -0000 Received: from cite.ics.uci.edu (cite.ics.uci.edu [128.195.38.152]) (authenticated bits=0) by scotch.ics.uci.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gARMUBTU021759 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 14:30:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 14:30:24 -0800 From: Justin Erenkrantz Reply-To: Justin Erenkrantz To: community@apache.org Subject: Re: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org Message-ID: <0.1038436224@cite.ics.uci.edu> In-Reply-To: <3DE52C38.7040006@apache.org> References: <3DE52C38.7040006@apache.org> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.0b9 (SunOS/SPARC) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES version=2.50-cvs X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N --On Wednesday, November 27, 2002 12:34:00 -0800 Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > I would like to propose the creation of the 'community.apache.org' web > site. > > Currently, some people have their apache homepage on www.apache.org/~name > and some on cvs.apache.org/~name and some don't have it. I'm -0 on the proposal for the following reason: what happens when someone places something inappropriate on their website? While I know we're all reasonably sane adults, I've run enough 'community' websites to get fed up with morons complaining about potentially offensive comments one of our users posted. Even worse, when people place infringing code/music/pictures, I end up being the bad guy shutting the account down. I don't appreciate it when someone does that. (Comments that we don't assume liability for the content doesn't assuage an irate moron - they'll still complain.) I'm about as a strong proponent of free speech as there is, but this has the propensity to snowball into a bureaucratic nightmare. I'd rather people only have ASF-related stuff on their 'personal' ASF website, or a redirect/link to their 'official' non-ASF site. I don't see how this coincides with the goals of the ASF. IMHO, each project (or sub-project) should have a page that lists all frequent contributors with a link to their preferred page (this is what HTTP Server and a few other projects do). For HTTP Server, some people have pictures and (not-so) witty comments on the 'contributors' page. (Note: on infrastructure@, Stephen brought up ASF-wide blogs - my reply was essentially the same as this.) -- justin