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Re: [Slashcode-general] Jumping in here late ... Slashcode is Dead ...
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From: Eric D. <eri...@ja...> - 2009-09-21 17:52:48
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I think you are wasting your time. About 2 years ago, I migrated my Slashcode sites to Wordpress. This was on an old dual Pentium II server. Not only did Wordpress run faster, it taxed the system less. The only thing hard about it was trying to get the nested comments imported because at that time Wordpress did not support it (it does now). Now I have sites that have a rich plugin community, lots of support, themes, tutorial, and the source code is being developed and still free. I'm not sure why the once Pro-Opensource guys at /. decided to stop giving out their source (if that is true). There are a couple of cool features that Slashdot has, but I rarely go their anymore. Stories are slow, and the conversations are not what they used to be....... But if you have a little bit of SQL skill, you can easily get all your stuff into Wordpress. It is worth it. On Sep 21, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > The sad thing is that, from what I've been able to determine, the code > itself is very well written / stable ... I put up two sites this > weekend > and the hardest thing for me (and it doesn't matter what 'templating > software' I use) was figuring out how to change things visually ... > but > even that (after a weekend) I'm fairly comfortable with ... > > My prior desire is to modernize the technology ... newer perl, newer > apache, newer mysql, improved postgresql support ... to me, those > are the > easy parts though ... > > Does anyone here know anything about GIT that would be interested in > helping out? I have no knowledge of it at all ... > > Someone from the Debian camp pointed out taht lack of Apache 2.x > support > was a major hindrance from the Debian side ... any out there able to > do > Debian packages if I can get Apache 2.2 support in there? > > If there is enough interest in doing this, we could probably get a > SlashCode3.0 out the door in <30 days, whose primary focus is just > to get > the technology up to '09 standards ... and then build from there ... > > > > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Alexandre Leroux wrote: > >> >> Bonjour Marc, >> >> I'm the author "Slashcode is dead?" post. With the answers I got >> (some on my >> /. journal, some replies to this list and some personal email), >> it's clear >> that unless something suddenly significantly change, Slashcode is >> really >> dead. I'm obviously not really happy about this, having invested a >> lot of >> efforts in the past 5 years. I still really love the Slash approach >> and >> technology, but there has been no development for years and the >> Slashdot team >> seems unwilling (for various good reasons I guess) to share their >> latest >> versions. >> >> Also consider that Shane Zatezalo, the main Slash helper outside >> the slash >> team has himself, to my knowledge, stopped using Slash and spending >> time on >> it. The community has degraded to mostly nothing. I am not trying to >> discourage you, just to inform you. I of course wish you the best >> of luck at >> reviving Slashcode! >> >> Meanwhile, I plan to move my small Slashsite (slashgeo.org, about >> 30,000 >> daily hits, 2100 registered members, very few comments) to Drupal. >> There is >> an existing migration method to go from Slash to Drupal. I wish to >> try that >> avenue in the coming months. I may change my mind, but that will >> happen only >> if we can get Slashcode back to modernity (with the Slashdot code?) >> *and* >> reassemble a vivid developers community. >> >> >> Bonne chance Marc ! Keep us updated on your findings. >> >> Alex :-) >> -- >> Alexandre Leroux, M.Sc., Ing. >> Environnement Canada / Environment Canada >> Centre m?t?orologique canadien / Canadian Meteorological Centre >> Section de la r?ponse aux urgences environnementales / >> Environmental Emergency Response Section >> ale...@ec... >> >> >> On 09/19/09 01:07, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >>> Just as a follow up, I've email'd the three developers / >>> maintainers of >>> Slashcode itself to see if there is some way of handing things off >>> to a new >>> crew ... there is just soooooo much in place now, and the project >>> name is a >>> known quantity, that the idea of forking and rebranding sounds >>> like such a >>> waste of history if we can somehow just revive what is there ... >>> >>> Will let y'all know if / what I hear back ... *cross fingers* >>> >>> On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >>> >>>> Started playing with Slashcode this week to setup a news site ... >>>> most >>>> impressed overall, but didn't clue in how ancient the code is >>>> that I'm >>>> using ... I should have figured somethign was 'funny' when the >>>> PostgreSQL >>>> code was alpha, considering that Slashdot ran production on it >>>> for awhile >>>> ... >>>> >>>> That said ... someone suggested a code fork, since apparently the >>>> developers out 'in-communicado'? >>>> >>>> I read one person commenting on their company having done plugins >>>> (ie. the >>>> Geo / mapping stuff), so presumable there is *some* internals >>>> knowledge >>>> there ... ? >>>> >>>> I run a hosting company, and already support both Horde and >>>> PostgreSQL ... >>>> providing resources to a third would be easy, if there were >>>> others that >>>> were interested ... ? >>>> >>>> Even just taking the current code and modernizing it (Apache 2.2, >>>> MySQL >>>> 5.x, Perl 5.8.9 ... I'd be interested in getting PostgreSQL >>>> support *out* >>>> of alpha myself) would be a huge improvement ... >>>> >>>> Anyone interested enough to do more then just talk about >>>> it ... ? :) >>>> >>>> Unless Slashcode is trademarked, we could fork / name it >>>> something similar >>>> ... not too keen on SlashcodeTNG, but something along those lines? >>>> >>>> Anyone? >>>> >>>> ---- >>>> Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Hosting Solutions >>>> S.A. >>>> sc...@hu... http://www.hub.org >>>> >>>> Yahoo:yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ:7615664 MSN:sc...@hu... >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in >>>> SF, CA >>>> is the only developer event you need to attend this year. >>>> Jumpstart your >>>> developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market >>>> and stay >>>> ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register >>>> now! >>>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Slashcode-general mailing list >>>> Sla...@li... >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/slashcode-general >>>> >>> >>> ---- >>> Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Hosting Solutions >>> S.A. >>> sc...@hu... http://www.hub.org >>> >>> Yahoo:yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ:7615664 MSN:sc...@hu... >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in >>> SF, CA >>> is the only developer event you need to attend this year. >>> Jumpstart your >>> developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market >>> and stay >>> ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register >>> now! >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Slashcode-general mailing list >>> Sla...@li... >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/slashcode-general >> > > ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. > sc...@hu... http://www.hub.org > > Yahoo:yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ:7615664 MSN:sc...@hu... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart > your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and > stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register > now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf > _______________________________________________ > Slashcode-general mailing list > Sla...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/slashcode-general |
