Re: Cfengine bug tracker

[John Sechrest]

Ok. 

Do you want to push it from a cron on your side, or
do you want to have sourceforge pull it with a cron?



Mark Burgess <address@hidden> writes:

 % I think the drupal site was a failure because we did not manage to
 % generate any content there. I suggest that we simply mirror for now
 % and reconsider it later
 % 
 % M
 % 
 % On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 02:29 -0800, John Sechrest wrote:
 % > 
 % > 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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