Re: [Pesci-discuss] Hoping Pesci is still flopping around...

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

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> --On onsdag, januar 11, 2006 08:13:57 -0600 Spencer Dawkins
> <spencer@mcsr-labs.org> wrote:
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> > Not sure if this is in-scope for PESCI or not...
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> ... but there are sensible people on this list, so let's just chat....
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> > I had a coversation with Brian in the Vancouver timeframe about some
> > process ID (doesn't matter which), during which Brian asked me,
> > (paraphrasing) "given that publishing this process document as a BCP/RFC
> > makes it harder to modify, and increases the expense of publishing it at
> > all, should we just publish this process document on a website and
> > declare victory?".
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> > We already have some process specs (including some "rfcxxxxbis" process
> > specs) that look like they will live forever as drafts, including drafts
> > on websites. It might be lovely to figure out how to know whether a
> > process ID should be published in archival form or not, and, if not,
> > where it SHOULD be published, in a consistent way.
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> I'd LOVE to have a specification for a publication mechanism that allows:
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> - the leadership to publish a revised version "whenever they have to"
> - me to get at the current version extremely easily
> - me to be notified when it changes (announcement, RSS, changelog...)
> - me to be able to get at any older version with a little dilligence
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> A set of web pages with CVS version control, links to previous versions and
> an open subscription "notification" mailing list would satisfy approx 95%
> of my needs....
> (I run a CVS with a notifier script; I'm pretty sure the web interface part
> exists too).
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> SHOULD be easy to set up....

substitute subversion for cvs and you're there...
http://www.edgewall.com/trac/

for example - http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/pub/wiki

I set it up under Fedora core 4 (.9.3 w/ webadmin) in under a day -
still struggling w/ a freeBSD .9.2 install (webadmin doesn't work
for me).

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