Re: Removing comments section

On 1/24/22 15:16, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> Le 24/01/2022 à 18:54, Rich Bowen a écrit :
>> It is my intent to drop the comments section from the bottom of each 
>> page of the httpd documentation, since it has been broken for YEARS, 
>> and is simply confusing when people see it there, but it doesn't work.
>>
>> If you object to this, or wish to go fix the comments section, please 
>> speak up.
>>
>> Since this is a significant change, I'm going let this sit for a few 
>> days, so that there can been some comment/feedback. Of course, it can 
>> always be reverted if someone does want to fix the comments tool in 
>> the future, but I think this warrants (at least the opportunity for) 
>> discussion.
>>
>> --Rich
> 
> -0.9
> 
> I would love the comment system to be resurrected.
> 
> There are a few Jira tickets about it.
> 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-12018
> is the one that is still opened.
> 
> I've never had any feedback of why if was down.
> Neither via Jira, nor by mail.
> 
> If it is a question of time to maintain the lua scripts, I volunteer.
> If it is a question of moderation, I volunteer.
> If it is a question of "could be improved" on the admin side of the 
> scripts, I volunteer.
> If it is a question of load on a server, a few things can be optimized 
> on the existing code base.
> 
> I guess that Infra is needed to have it live again. So if the shutdown 
> is related to something else (security for example), well, if infra does 
> want, nothing much can be done.
> 
> 
> I think that the comment system was (is) great, easy to use and useful 
> to get feedback on the doc (and sometimes on some wanted functionalities)
> 
> Just my 2c, hoping some others share my point of view and that infra can 
> get it back.

Awesome. Glad to hear that you volunteer to get it going again.

I have no idea what the problem is - just that it doesn't work, and 
hasn't for a few years, and nobody has stepped up to fix it.

Thanks.

--Rich