RE: [org] The FAQ and more

[Stephane Peter <Stephane.Peter@essi.fr>]

On 02-Jan-99 Christian Reiniger wrote:
>>From a private conversation between Nick/Adrian/myself:
> 
>>> >Check out:
>>> >http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgi-bin/ppfom
>>>
>>> Neat. Is it ready to play around with it? And does it support access
>>rights > etc?
> 
>>Sure does.  I'm adding a little bit of stuff as I write this from the
>>static faq.   I guess maybe we should consider our access policy.
> 
> That's my first point. Access Policy.
> 
> The FOM setup allows the PPlay developers to directly add/modify FAQ items
> - without the redirection over some FAQ maintainer (while I still want to
> have a maintainer taking care of duplicate entries etcetc [1]). But who may
> access it?
> I think all developers with r/w CVS access sounds like a good start for
> this. Stephane - we need your help here.

Agreed. But I am not sure whether I still have the up-to-date list of CVS
accounts here. As you might have noticed, I have been quite inactive for the
past few months (very busy with various other projects) :(

There may be a way to link the CVS accounts to FOM for authentication (same
passwords?), but we'd better ask the sunsite team about this... Or all
developers having a CVS account who wishes to contribute to the FAQ can just
sign up and send his CVS login to the FOM maintainer.

> Topic "who": I already sent a mail around concerning wo is active / who is
> interested / who is "on hold" etc. I feel that it is relatively important
> now to have a good view of who is really in, who takes care of what etc.
> So please guys, give your comment to that mail.

Well, as for myself, I simply had no time to work on PenguinPlay itself for the
last months (my involvement with SciTech's Linux products sucked most of my
time... and it's not over). But I'm still working on somewhat PPlay-related
projects, like porting MGL to Linux.

As for PenguinNet, I'd really like to see it go to something concrete. After
all, I am supposed to be the leader of this team. We have an almost complete
protocol draft (PIX) that would need a bit more work to be complete. But we
also have to see what's going on in Zombie, if we intend to use it (I'm afraid
they went their own way for their underlying protocol?) and actually check it
into CVS so we can really work on code...

> Well, I think that's it for now. Let's show a bit more action. I want to
> have at least one PPlay release out in this millenium ;)

Geez, I realize this is my first mail in about 5 months :-). We still have 2
years to go befor the next millenium ;-)

Hopefully I'm (more or less) back !

>       Christian
> --
> 
> "World domination. Fast." (Linus Thorvalds about Linux)
                                   ^^^^^^^^
Hum, it is Torvalds AFAIK. ;)



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       French Computer Science Student
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