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Re: Cfengine bug tracker
From: |
John Sechrest |
Subject: |
Re: Cfengine bug tracker |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Jan 2006 02:29:37 -0800 |
Mark Burgess <address@hidden> writes:
% The sourcefourge drupal site seems to be broken now. Is it really any
% better than the broken GNU site?
No.
% John Sechrest set this up. What happened to it? John?
The MYSQL services at sourceforge changed.
I have to re-install with the new mysql server.
% Could we not
% simply mirror the html tree from www.cfengine.org? At least there would
% be content then.
I have been pegged for the last month or so.
But I am now coming up free.
Do you want to
a) mirror
or
b) reinstall
or
c) try to recover the old configuration
I am willing to put in time on this next week.
Perhaps sooner if things go well.
% On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 11:34 -0800, Eric Sorenson wrote:
% > On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Dave Love wrote:
% >
% > > [ context snipped ]
% > > For what it's worth, if I remember
% > > correctly that's a regression which I may even have failed to report
% > > via the useless bug address.
% >
% > I've been mulling over this sentence since I first read it last week.
% >
% > Assuming you mean the SF bug tracker, to a first approximation this is
% > my fault. About a year ago, I signed up to herd over the tracker, and
% > I did pretty well (IMO) for most of last year. But I've recently found
% > my free time has shrank from 'little' to 'less', and I'd like to
% > formally pass on the torch to somebody. It's not an incredibly
% > glamorous job but here are a few reasons why somebody might want to
% > volunteer:
% >
% > 1. It helps the overall project to have a centralized list of known
% > problems that are actively being worked on. (Community)
% >
% > 2. You can help others increase their knowledge of cfengine by
% > ferreting out real bugs from user errors, and thereby gain a
% > reputation as a CfBadAss (Status)
% >
% > 3. You will learn lots about how cfengine works under the hood, esp
% > parts that you might not use yourself. If you want to become a
% > better C systems programmer, getting down-n-dirty with cfengine
% > under gdb/ddd can be a rewarding learning experience (Stimulation)
% >
% > It doesn't have to be one person, either; Scott Lackey (slackey on
% > SF/IRC) volunteered to step up, but perhaps other folks want to share
% > the responsibility; I think this is a good thing to help minimize the
% > single-point-of-human-failure problem.
% >
% > Basically all it takes is, say "Me! Me!", Mark says "OK", him or John
% > Sechrest grant you admin on the SF tracker, and you go through the bug
% > list and whittle it down as best you can.
% >
% > Any takers?
% >
%
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Re: Problems configuring cfengine 2.1.17 on Solaris10, Dave Love, 2006/01/02
Re: Problems configuring cfengine 2.1.17 on Solaris10, Dave Love, 2006/01/02
Re: Problems configuring cfengine 2.1.17 on Solaris10, Dave Love, 2006/01/02