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Re: Cfengine bug tracker
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Mark Burgess |
Subject: |
Re: Cfengine bug tracker |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:44:28 +0100 |
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 <Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no> 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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