Haus News - Administrivia http://blogs.codehaus.org//archives/administrivia.html en-us 2006-01-06T17:43:15+00:00 Redesign in progress http://blogs.codehaus.org/archives/001301_redesign_in_progress.html You might notice, the main website has received a quick face-lift. We're in the process of rolling out a new Confluenza, along with a freshening-up of the design. It's about time we came screaming out of 2001, and go for the new Web 2.0 long narrow column style.

]]> Administrivia bob 2006-01-06T17:43:15+00:00 Confluence 1.3.1 http://blogs.codehaus.org/archives/000943_confluence_131.html Over on http://docs.codehaus.org/, we've upgraded to Confluence 1.3.1.

]]> Administrivia bob 2005-01-05T04:32:08+00:00 That outtage http://blogs.codehaus.org/archives/000815_that_outtage.html Well, you might've noticed that we went missing off the next for a while today. Originally planned as a 30-minute drive-swap, we ended up off for 6 hours and finally gave up on dd'ing the 120gb of disk. I apologize for whatever inconvenience you might've experienced. We're going to figure out another plan to allow for this upgrade without having to go offline while dd does its damage.

]]> Administrivia bob 2004-08-12T22:32:12+00:00 Where's my cheese? http://blogs.codehaus.org/archives/000801_wheres_my_cheese.html Can't find something? We're Google-enabled site-wide now. I couldn't be bothered to get a self-installed search engine working snazzily yet, so...

search.codehaus.org

]]> Administrivia bob 2004-07-28T08:13:45+00:00 IRC Bridge http://blogs.codehaus.org/archives/000800_irc_bridge.html So, you're behind a firewall but still want to kill time chatting with the hausmates or arguing with Fate...

Use the bridge.

]]> Administrivia bob 2004-07-28T06:39:20+00:00 Project Migration Complete http://blogs.codehaus.org/archives/000756_project_migration_complete.html Well, we've finally moved all projects to the new hardware. Fun fun fun.

Slow projects are getting their websites redeployed and updating the meta-information about their project.

This page should soon become the canonical jump point for all projects.

]]> Administrivia bob 2004-06-07T08:16:30+00:00 CVS Location http://blogs.codehaus.org/archives/000744_cvs_location.html Folks have noticed the fall-out of what happens when you upgrade machines. I've been moving a lot of projects from our overpriced machine at Rackspace to the bigger and better machine in the bunker in Canada. Anyhow, to answer the #1 FAQ of the week:

Projects that have moved, and you can't seem to find, are now available if you following the form of:

cvs -d:pserver:anon@cvs.PROJECT.codehaus.org:/scm/PROJECT login
cvs -d:pserver:anon@cvs.PROJECT.codehaus.org:/scm/PROJECT checkout MODULE

Replacing PROJECT and MODULE in a way that makes sense.

Web source would then be:

  http://cvs.PROJECT.codehaus.org/

Each project has its own subdomain that holds pretty much everything for it.

Coming soon: list archives!

Wisdom gained from this migration:

It's much better to design a system where to upgrade, you simply add machines. If you have upgrade by replacement, the move is much more painful. The system I've set up now will support more growth (lots more projects for Hani to complain about); we can simply add another machine and partition along the project axis instead of the service axis.

Live and learn.

]]> Administrivia bob 2004-05-28T04:44:08+00:00 So long, and thanks for all the fish http://blogs.codehaus.org/archives/000667_so_long_and_thanks_for_all_the_fish.html It's with a heavy heart that I submit this farewell entry.

Yesterday, during our regular quarterly review where we gather status reports on all the projects, discuss haus business, review recent proposals, and vote on policy issues, Jon Tirsen suggested that perhaps I haven't been leading the haus with the appropriate amount of vim, vigour and vitality (the v^3 principle, as he put it). The motion was seconded by Aslak and quickly a vote of confidence was taken. Alas, it turned out decidedly Not Well for me. With the head of the haus removed, nominations were collected for a replacement. Long story short, Hani was voted in. While his entry today attempts to blame a job change on the demise of the BileBlog, he fails to mention that the job is that of being Hani the Kind, leader of the neuvo Codehaus.

Part of his proposed policy changes include porting all projects to .NET along with factoring out common bits of the multitude of projects into a new top-level project known as the codehaus commune library, which will be similar to the jakarta-commons effort at the ASF. Part of this effort includes the creation of a Groovy compiler for .NET.

I must say that I was quite dismayed to learn that the animosity between Hani and the ThoughWorks drones was purely a fiction in order to undermine my credibility. Tirsen and Hani apparently have been sharing beers and planning this mutiny for months, now.

In light of these developments, I find that I can no longer consider myself a part of either the Codehaus or the bully-laden open-source movement. I wish you all luck, but I think it's time to hang up my xterm and open a bakery. Look forward to the opening of Bob's Donut Werks in Asheville, North Carolina this summer.



Hani with a fish and his new Groovy t-shirt

]]> Administrivia bob 2004-04-01T07:27:09+00:00 Confluence as CMS http://blogs.codehaus.org/archives/000662_confluence_as_cms.html The Codehaus::Home is now being driven from our HAUS space on docs.codehaus.org.

Powered by Atlassian Confluence.
]]> Administrivia bob 2004-03-25T09:15:55+00:00 Confluence http://blogs.codehaus.org/archives/000640_confluence.html We've had Confluence running for a little while now, and after a few upgrades, it's seemingly fairly stable. It's definitely very very nice looking. We have at least one more upgrade scheduled soon so that Confluence can share authentication information with our Jira instance, making all existing Jira users also Confluence users.

Once again, Atlassian rocks.

]]> Administrivia bob 2004-03-12T15:08:57+00:00 Happy Birthday http://blogs.codehaus.org/archives/000620_happy_birthday.html Over on my blog, I announced the haus's first birthday.

Well, a year ago today, I registered codehaus.org. Kurt Schrader announced it publically about a week later, but the registrar considers today to be the founding day for the haus.
]]> Administrivia bob 2004-02-26T15:48:46+00:00 Thanks ThoughtWorks http://blogs.codehaus.org/archives/000588_thanks_thoughtworks.html ThoughtWorks has provided a generous donation to The Codehaus. A good number of the hausmates are ThoughtWorkers and many of them hopped over to the continent for the Haus Party. You've got folks like Aslak, Joe and Paul doing super cool things, just to name a few.

]]> Administrivia bob 2004-02-04T16:14:39+00:00 Beavery Blogs http://blogs.codehaus.org/archives/000575_beavery_blogs.html blogs.codehaus.org is now running on the new canadian box known as beaver.

Through the miracle of mod_rewrite, mod_proxy, and a complete disregard for bandwidth consumption, the migration should be completely transparent to you even if the DNS changes haven't propagated yet. If your machine thinks that hogshead is still blogs.codehaus.org, then hogshead just proxies requests back to beaver until your machine figures it out.

Holler if you find any problems.

]]> Administrivia bob 2004-01-24T20:24:41+00:00 reply-to: jira@codehaus.org http://blogs.codehaus.org/archives/000564_replyto_jiracodehausorg.html jira.codehaus.org can now accept comments to issues through email. When replying to a mail notification from Jira, if you include jira@codehaus.org on the recipient list, jira will add your email as a comment on the issue. It simply finds the issue key from the subject: header.

Now, all of those conversations started on lists as a the result of a mail from Jira will be saved for posterity's sake.

]]> Administrivia bob 2004-01-20T15:41:03+00:00 search.codehaus.org http://blogs.codehaus.org/archives/000563_searchcodehausorg.html Search is now available for the assets of The Codehaus.

& may be used as boolean 'AND'
| may be used as boolean 'OR'
~ may be used as boolean 'NOT'
]]> Administrivia bob 2004-01-20T06:03:32+00:00