Re: Streamlining new committers info

2012-11-12 Thread Igor Galić
- Original Message - > On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 05:33:51PM +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: > > See the rather unused "local mentors" app from the ComDev PMC at > > http://community.zones.apache.org/ > > Thanks! I've signed up for beer^Wbeing a local mentor. I did that too, but when I look fo

Re: Streamlining new committers info: projects.a.o

2012-11-11 Thread Shane Curcuru
ssage- From: Igor Galić [mailto:i.ga...@brainsware.org] Sent: Thursday, 8 November 2012 3:32 PM To: dev@community.apache.org Cc: ASF Site-Dev Subject: Re: Streamlining new committers info Another idea that just came up in a BoF was to create more useful info on the *main* page about what the projects

Re: Streamlining new committers info

2012-11-10 Thread Tammo van Lessen
Hi, On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Gavin McDonald wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Igor Galić [mailto:i.ga...@brainsware.org] > > Sent: Thursday, 8 November 2012 3:32 PM > > To: dev@community.apache.org > > Cc: ASF Site-Dev > > Subject:

RE: Streamlining new committers info

2012-11-09 Thread Gavin McDonald
> -Original Message- > From: Igor Galić [mailto:i.ga...@brainsware.org] > Sent: Thursday, 8 November 2012 3:32 PM > To: dev@community.apache.org > Cc: ASF Site-Dev > Subject: Re: Streamlining new committers info > > > Another idea that just came up in a Bo

RE: Streamlining new committers info

2012-11-09 Thread Ross Gardler
> -Original Message- > From: Sander van der Waal [mailto:sander.vanderw...@gmail.com] > Sent: 09 November 2012 12:58 > To: dev@community.apache.org > Cc: ASF Site-Dev > Subject: Re: Streamlining new committers info > > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Igor Galić w

Re: Streamlining new committers info

2012-11-09 Thread Sander van der Waal
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Igor Galić wrote: > > Another idea that just came up in a BoF was to create more > useful info on the *main* page about what the projects do > and how to get the one you need: i.e.: I'm looking for a > Database - it should be a Key-Value store, in Java. > And you'r

Re: Streamlining new committers info

2012-11-08 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 05:33:51PM +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: > See the rather unused "local mentors" app from the ComDev PMC at > http://community.zones.apache.org/ Thanks! I've signed up for beer^Wbeing a local mentor.

RE: Streamlining new committers info

2012-11-08 Thread Ross Gardler
> -Original Message- > From: Stefan Sperling [mailto:s...@apache.org] > Sent: 08 November 2012 16:06 > To: dev@community.apache.org > Cc: ASF Site-Dev > Subject: Re: Streamlining new committers info > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 12:28:57PM +0100, Sander van der Waal

RE: Streamlining new committers info

2012-11-08 Thread Ross Gardler
is editable by anyone via the CMS [1] http://community.apache.org/committers/index.html > -Original Message- > From: Igor Galić [mailto:i.ga...@brainsware.org] > Sent: 08 November 2012 11:43 > To: ASF Site-Dev; dev > Subject: Streamlining new committers info > > >

Re: Streamlining new committers info

2012-11-08 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 12:28:57PM +0100, Sander van der Waal wrote: > The amount of information is overwhelming and for example a discussion with > an ASF member over beer makes much more clear than ploughing through the > website. So we think it'd be great if the documents can be as clear as that

Re: Streamlining new committers info

2012-11-08 Thread Igor Galić
Another idea that just came up in a BoF was to create more useful info on the *main* page about what the projects do and how to get the one you need: i.e.: I'm looking for a Database - it should be a Key-Value store, in Java. And you're down to 2 projects: DB, Cassandra etc.. i - Original M

Re: Streamlining new committers info

2012-11-08 Thread Sander van der Waal
Hi All, Just to add to that, our priority will be to look at what's outdated and make the documents generally more accessible for newcomers. The amount of information is overwhelming and for example a discussion with an ASF member over beer makes much more clear than ploughing through the website.

Streamlining new committers info

2012-11-08 Thread Igor Galić
Hey folks, sitting here at ApacheCon Sander (van der Waal), we'd really like to streamline and de-duplicate the (new) committers info on http://www.apache.org/dev/ This is just to give you a heads up! If you see something in the diffs or on http://www.staging.apache.org/dev/ you don't like or co