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Re: [Slashcode-general] Renaming the fork of Slashcode
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From: Marc G. F. <sc...@hu...> - 2011-02-08 21:13:58
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But, that is what we are doing ... forking hte project, and workingot re-vitalize it ... once we get the initial infrastructure in place, we'll do an announce to this list, and make a request to Jamie et al to put something on the main page of the slashcode web site pointing ppl to the new site ... On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, George Taft wrote: > Well, after sleeping on it, I have a new thought. > > To date, "Slash" has been the Software. "Slashcode" has been the > "Slash Open Source Project," as the site at slashcode.com calls > itself. > > The Software, those of us still here agree, has utility and is worth > continuing to develop. But users have almost all drifted away because > the Project has suffered from a profound lack of attention. That would > be because those of us still here all but do not include the Slashdot > team, who greatly reduced their priority to the Project in favor of > Slashdot itself. > > I notice that Chris Nandor, the last person to post an article at > slashcode.com, <a > href="http://use.perl.org/~pudge/journal/40493">stopped working for > Slashdot/GeekNet as of 2010Q4.</a> He put the use.perl.org site on > hiatus before he quit. I'm betting that he no longer considers > Slashcode a priority, either. Jamie McCarthy, the second-to-last to > post an article, works for GeekNet but not Slashdot. (Jamie has > contacted us with words of encouragement.) > > All this begs the question: why have we not asked the Slashdot team if > they wouldn't mind if someone else took over altogether the "Slash > Open Source Project" that is slashcode.com? > > == George > > > > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Marc G. Fournier <sc...@hu...> wrote: >> On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, Andre-John Mas wrote: >> >>> Or a small variation: >>> >>> SlashCode-NG >> >> I could go for that one ... any nay's on that? >> >> >>> >>> On 8-Feb-2011, at 10:07, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Cute :) >>>> >>>> None of them *really* ring though, now do they? :) >>>> >>>> Just so that we don't get hung up on a name and never actually move >>>> forward with the critical stuff, u nless anyone has something that >>>> *rings* >>>> to put forward, does anyone have any disagreements with just going with: >>>> >>>> SlashTNG >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, George Taft wrote: >>>> >>>>> Oh, I love this thread. I like Backslash and Solidus. I came up with: >>>>> >>>>> Slashback >>>>> Slasher >>>>> Slashout >>>>> >>>>> Slapdash >>>>> StrikeThat >>>>> >>>>> SlashAndBurn >>>>> SlashAndCarry >>>>> SlashCut >>>>> SlashedPotatoes >>>>> SlashinthePan >>>>> >>>>> Things that slash: >>>>> -- pirates; swashbucklers >>>>> -- a spare in bowling >>>>> -- a slash is a stroke; stricken; struck >>>>> >>>>> == George >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Marc G. Fournier <sc...@hu...> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> As far as domains are concerned, both are already taken ... :( >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Larson, Timothy E. wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>> 'k, since SlashCode belongs to the Slashdot folks, we need to rename >>>>>>>> th >>>>>>>> efork ot someting different ... I want like to somehow keep some sort >>>>>>>> of >>>>>>>> 'history in the name' ... anyone got better then SlashTNG? PortalSC >>>>>>>> (SC >>>>>>>> == Slashcode)? Something better ... ? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Backslash (Slash is back)? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Solidus (the typography geek in me comes out)? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Tim >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> Tim Larson >>>>>>> App Admin, Intercall Production Services >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ---- >>>>>> 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... >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>> The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio >>>>> XE: >>>>> Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. >>>>> Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. >>>>> Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. >>>>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> 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... >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: >>>> Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. >>>> Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. >>>> Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. >>>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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... >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: > Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. > Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. > Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb > _______________________________________________ > 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... |
