Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Is this project alive?

[Andrew G. <an...@zo...>]

Thank you again.

The first tasks will be for us to survey the scene and discuss what 
needs doing. But don't worry, I won't be rushing in to make any drastic 
changes. In fact I don't intend to make any changes without prior 
discussion, planning and consensus.

And like youself, I will also have to spend time finding my my around 
the sourceforge admin facilities.


Andrew


Leif W wrote:

>> "Andrew Gillett" <an...@zo...>; 2005-04-01@16:35 -0500
>>
>>> Leif W wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm an admin now, so there's that.
>>>
>
> Andrew, you're an admin too.  Login at your earliest convenience.  For 
> God's sake don't change anything without notifying the other admin.  
> ;-) I took four actions so far, de-op Richard, remove Richard (per 
> request), add you, and op you.  I've been looking at everything and 
> trying to just take in all the functionality provided by SourceForge.  
> I had no idea, it's mind boggling, and a bit confusing.  ;-)  Well if 
> something is majorly broken and needs immediate repair, go for it, but 
> document what the problem is, what the change is, and where the 
> changes were made. Well it's what I did with the site's PHP quirks 
> anyways.
>
>> Well done.  And thank you for fixing that PHP problem! It's useful to 
>> have access to all the old documentation again.
>
>
> The is a big problem but I don't want to advertise it publicly, and 
> have taken a backup last night.  ;-)
>
>> Do you have any idea what the "Login" on the project home page does? 
>> This is not the SourceForge login, but is something specific to the 
>> dynapi page. I've tried creating several logins but the my passwords 
>> are never accepted.
>
>
> I have absolutely no idea what that was for... presumably to give 
> people access to modify the pages.
>
>> The two areas I can see myself working on over the coming weeks (or 
>> months more likely) are documentation and testing. But these will be 
>> topics for new threads.
>
>
> You can assign yourself whichever roles you wish.  Before doing 
> anything, let's just make sure we have first a definition of what we 
> think needs to be done and a reasonable consensus.  I'll discuss 
> systems for evaluating consensus on the dynapi-admin list, so get 
> yourself subscribed.  I'm doing so now.
>
>> Let's hope we're able to breathe some life back into this project and 
>> revive interest in it.
>
>
> To this end there are what appear at first to be a mind boggling array 
> of features provided by SourceForge.  For instance, there are ways to 
> advertise seeking developers for the project, and so on.  We can 
> discuss this on the admin list perhaps.
>
> Leif
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