perl.advocacy...Re: Updating http:history.perl.orgPerlTimeline.html by Shlomi Fish- April 28, 2008 On Monday 28 April 2008, Richard Foley wrote:> On Sunday 27 April 2008 21:43:35 Shlomi Fish wrote:> > the conversion to XHTML> > 1.1 (valid now) etc. the patch will be very huge, so I&39;ll just send you> > the new file. You can find it here:> >> > http:www.shlomifish.orgperl-timeline-tempPerlTimeline.html>> Excellent work.>Thanks.> > All that was said, I would still to contribute to the new Perl history> > effort> > on the TPF wiki....http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.advocacy/2008/04/msg2432.html Re: There is no cabal by Andy Lester- April 28, 2008 > I wasn&39;t offered my own new> wiki-thread though, maybe I didn&39;t ask the right person...What do you mean "offered my own new wiki-thread" You don&39;t get offered something on a wiki. You go and start it yourself.> I realise that you had not intended to make this much of an issue > out it, or> to trample on another (if aged) project. As I see it, it&39;s happened > that> way, because of choices people-in-power have made as to how to react > to>.http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.advocacy/2008/04/msg2431.html Re: Updating http:history.perl.orgPerlTimeline.html by Richard Foley- April 28, 2008 On Monday 28 April 2008 18:03:23 Shlomi Fish wrote:>> > > http:www.shlomifish.orgperl-timeline-tempPerlTimeline.html> >> > Excellent work.> > Thanks.>Well, I started to revise it myself once, but didn&39;t get much of an answer from anywhere about how to take it on either. I wasn&39;t offered my own new wiki-thread though, maybe I didn&39;t ask the right person...> No, it&39;s not about perl6 vs. perl5. It&39;s about the original Timeline by > Elaine vs...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.advocacy/2008/04/msg2430.html Re: Updating http:history.perl.orgPerlTimeline.html by John Adams- April 28, 2008 >From: Andy Lester <andypetdance.com>>Plurality is the nature of open source, and it&39;s an additive process, >not a subtractive one. Template Toolkit doesn&39;t take away from >Mason. Devel::Prof don&39;t take away from Devel::DProf. Perlbuzz >doesn&39;t take away from use.perl.org. Perl 6 doesn&39;t take away from >Perl 5. Perl didn&39;t take away from awk and shell. vim doesn&39;t take >away from emacs.I think this is a bit oversimplified. These things..http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.advocacy/2008/04/msg2429.html Re: Moving forward with history by Andy Armstrong- April 28, 2008 On 28 Apr 2008, at 02:02, Elaine Ashton wrote:> On 27 Apr, 2008, at 20:37, Andy Lester wrote:>>>> I don&39;t see any grief being caused whatsoever. If anyone else sees >> a problem with starting a new wikified version of the Perl history, >> then I&39;m sure heshe can say something.>> Why would they as the thing has sat there, peacefully, for nearly 10 > years. What, did you all run out of projects to run into the ground, > jump up and down about...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.advocacy/2008/04/msg2428.html Re: Updating http:history.perl.orgPerlTimeline.html by Richard Foley- April 28, 2008 On Monday 28 April 2008 16:23:35 Andy Lester wrote:> > > but I&39;m not really surprised when she> > gets her project whipped from under her feet.> > No one is stopping any other project from doing anything. Nobody is > taking away any projects from anyone else.> There are many ways to skin a cat.> I&39;ll say it again in the land of the free> If it is the land of the free, which I doubt.-- Richard FoleyCiao - shorter than aufwiedersehenhttp:www.rfi.nethttp://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.advocacy/2008/04/msg2427.html Re: Updating http:history.perl.orgPerlTimeline.html by Andy Lester- April 28, 2008 > but I&39;m not really surprised when she> gets her project whipped from under her feet.No one is stopping any other project from doing anything. Nobody is taking away any projects from anyone else.Plurality is the nature of open source, and it&39;s an additive process, not a subtractive one. Template Toolkit doesn&39;t take away from Mason. Devel::Prof don&39;t take away from Devel::DProf. Perlbuzz doesn&39;t take away from use.perl.org. Perl 6 doesn&39;t take away from Perl...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.advocacy/2008/04/msg2426.html Re: Updating http:history.perl.orgPerlTimeline.html by Richard Foley- April 28, 2008 On Sunday 27 April 2008 21:43:35 Shlomi Fish wrote:>> the conversion to XHTML > 1.1 (valid now) etc. the patch will be very huge, so I&39;ll just send you the > new file. You can find it here:> > http:www.shlomifish.orgperl-timeline-tempPerlTimeline.html> Excellent work.> All that was said, I would still to contribute to the new Perl history > effort > on the TPF wiki. While I highly commend you for the effort you&39;ve put into > the existing timeline,...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.advocacy/2008/04/msg2425.html |