Re: Opening a Web-site for WML at Berlios

If Shlomi has time, I think he should have access to maintain the website. I
assume that Ralf or Denis should be informed what the plans are or there
could be a formal transfer of responsibility.

Cheers,
Fritz

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Shlomi Fish wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Sep 11, 2004, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> >
> > > Seeing the general neglect of the site since the domain change and the
> > > medium amount of spam that arrives at the mailing list, I think it would
> > > be a good idea to register a Web-Meta-Language site at Berlios
> > > (http://developer.berlios.de/).
> >
> > What do you want to do there yourself what couldn't be done on
> > thewml.org?
>
> It could be done on thewml.org, but only assuming I (or someone else who
> can volunteer the time) had priviliges to access it and fix it. At the
> moment the site is heavily broken, and many things don't work as they
> should.
>
> > Usually there should be no spam on [email protected]. The
> > ones related to Petidomo occurred AFAIK because by accident the Petidomo
> > robot address was in the acknowledge file of the mailing list. This is
> > fixed now.
> >
>
> If you say so. Only time can tell if you're right.
>
> > > We will get a web domain name (wml.berlios.de or something similar), with
> > > the ability to run Perl, Python and PHP callbacks, mailing lists, a Subversion
> > > repository, a bug tracker and a task list (with a horrible interface, but
> > > nonetheless) and many other good services.
> > >
> > > Is it OK if I continue? Or are there any concrete plans to fix the
> > > web-site?
> >
> > What exactly do you wish fixed? I mean, I know that we have mostly no
> > free time available for WML and the source would need some cleanups, but
> > is something really fully broken currently? Do you have any patches at
> > hand?
>
> I'm quite happy with WML as it is. But it at least needs a
> site that is working properly. This is not the case for thewml.org, so I'd
> like to either be able to fix it, or set up a new site.
>
> And as I implied earlier, I do have the time to fix thewml.org. Just not
> the means.
>
> Regards,
>
> 	Shlomi Fish
>
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