Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-community-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 65340 invoked by uid 500); 30 Jan 2003 22:10:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact community-help@apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Reply-To: community@apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list community@apache.org Received: (qmail 65275 invoked from network); 30 Jan 2003 22:10:39 -0000 Received: from mail12.speakeasy.net (HELO mail.speakeasy.net) (216.254.0.212) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 30 Jan 2003 22:10:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 3308 invoked from network); 30 Jan 2003 22:10:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO x180.net) (x180@[66.92.7.102]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 30 Jan 2003 22:10:54 -0000 Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:10:44 -0800 Subject: Re: [poll] weblog package on apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) From: James Duncan Davidson To: community@apache.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <004b01c2c7a8$2f0d5030$7500a8c0@goliath> Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Wednesday, Jan 29, 2003, at 07:07 US/Pacific, David Reid wrote: > A blog (in the context it's being pushed now) is (IMHO) really just=20 > another > outlet for news on a project that should be readily available=20 > elsewhere - > which is an issue and a failing that has been identified before and=20 > one that > the reorg@ list discussed at length before this whole community thing=20= > came > into being. It would be nice to have a blog-like CMS (like MT or Blosxom or what=20 not) backending the news production so that RSS feeds and the like=20 would automatically be there. There's also some exploration in "shared blogs" serving as a=20 discussion/collaboration forum. But seeing how well the wiki seems to=20 be generating controversy, I'm not sure it's a good time/place for such=20= an experiment here at Apache. But, for personal blog use=97independent space is easy to set up and use=20= for blogs of a personal nature. I don't see the need to host blogs of=20 the style of mine, or Sam's or Erik's or any of a dozen others of us.=20 Therefore, I don't see the need to burden the ASF's resources with=20 blogs of this nature. >> - Should we select a Java based solution (the request came from >> jakarta-general initially), or anything else ? > > Erm, unless I've missed something shouldn't this be a decision once we=20= > have > decided the above question? This sort of question on a poll could be=20= > viewed > as leading... Dozens of solutions. Definitely a second order question. James Duncan Davidson Coder, Speaker, Author http://x180.net/ [life live]; --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: community-unsubscribe@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: community-help@apache.org