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Forrest’s history

Diwaker Gupta — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:31:12 +0000

As I was going through the Forrest home page, I came across this interesting trivia which somehow I hadn’t noticed before:

From [[http://forrest.apache.org/#History|Forrest's history]]

> Apache Forrest was started in January 2002, with the major use-case being to create a consistent and efficient xml.apache.org group of project websites with a uniform, lightweight, easy-to-navigate layout and structure. In addition, Forrest was to be a Sourceforge-like project management tool, complementing Apache Gump (hence the name ‘Forrest’).

Just good to know.

Forrest Friday

Diwaker Gupta — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 03:11:23 +0000

Sometime back we at [[http://forrest.apache.org|Forrest]] moved away from Forrest Tuesday in favor of a [[http://forrest.apache.org/forrest-friday.html|Forrest Friday]]. Since Cheche and JennyCuran were absent from this friday’s meeting, I took it upon myself to setup a bot and publish some fun stats.

I chose [[http://supybot.com|supybot]] for the logging — its far more advanced than my needs, but since its written in python and has excellent documentation, I stuck with it. I used [[http://pisg.sf.net|pisg]] to generate the stats. This friday’s stats can be found [[http://people.apache.org/~diwaker/for-n.html|here]]. Those interested in full details will find the complete logs in our SVN repository.

Forrest Tuesday

Diwaker Gupta — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 23:17:50 +0000

So we had another [[http://forrest.apache.org/forrest-tuesday.html|Forrest Tuesday]] 2 days back. I was not able to participate, but I did read through most of the logs later on. A lot of work was done in moving the xmap over to locationmaps. And as usual discussions on views, XHTML2 (here is a [[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.forrest.devel/16863|brief summary]]).

A few days before that, Ross, Addi and I sat down for a collaborative editing session using [[http://gobby.0x539.de/|Gobby]]. It was pretty cool actually — I’d never used a collaborative text editor before — these things are quite funky. Real time editing in different colors, real time IRC like chat. It was pretty nifty. And, we were [[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.forrest.cvs/5106|quite productive]].

In other news, [[http://www.codezoo.com/|Codezoo]] //still// hasn’t updated its [[http://www.codezoo.com/pub/component/2845|Forrest page]] despite my having submitted the DOAP file several times. Please guys, I’m trying to help you out here — fix this before we lose interest! :)

Forrest Tuesday

Diwaker Gupta — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 04:53:37 +0000

[[http://forrest.apache.org|Forrest]] is having its first monthly get together! Ladies and gentlemen, please give it away for [[http://forrest.apache.org/forrest-tuesday.html|Forrest Tuesday]] :-)

The agenda for the first Forrest Tuesday is the move to XHTML2. You can find more details in the [[http://forrest.apache.org/plan/index.html|planning notes]].

If you are even remotely interested in Forrest, or just want to hang around and get to know the devs better or if you’re just getting bored, do drop in our IRC channel tomorrow. The channel name has not been announced yet — I will update this post when it is. Please mark your calendars — the event [[http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2005&month=9&day=6&hour=6&min=0&sec=0|begins at]] **6 AM UTC**.

**Update: Channel name** We are on channel ‘#for-s’ on irc.freenode.net

Forrest roundup: 2005-08-16

Diwaker Gupta — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:19:07 +0000

* Ross started an excellent thread on how to go about [[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.forrest.devel/15342|improving the development process]] in Forrest
* Elsewhere, Ron has been doing some great work on [[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.forrest.devel/15294|memory profiling]] Forrest.
* Meanwhile, discussion on [[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.forrest.devel/15129|reducing build times]] in Forrest still continue

More on Codezoo

Diwaker Gupta — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 21:26:16 +0000

I have created an initial DOAP file for Forrest. Currently we plan to update it manually since releases are infrequent and require some manual effort anyways.

Having done that, I went back to the Codezoo website hoping to submit the shiny new feed so that they could update the information on Forrest on their website. While Codezoo is a great concept, I think they still need to do a lot of work before it becomes truly usable:

for one, there is //no// obvious, visible mechanism for users/developers to submit/update their DOAP feeds
links to using DOAP on Codezoo are sparse and don’t stand out (given that Codezoo is the first biggest deployment of DOAP, I think this should change)
I’m sure Codezoo is thinking about this already, but right now there doesn’t seem to be any mechanism in place for stopping people from spamming the system (submitting fake DOAP feeds, for instance)
There is a “feedback” link on the top which seems to mean that we are supposed to give feedback on the Codezoo website. However, on the feedback page they also talk about “submitting new components”. I think this should go in a separate page on its own.

Meanwhile I would request other Apache projects to also get started on creating DOAP feeds for their projects. This is going to be like the RSS of blogs :-) Here are some links to get you started:

DOAP homepage
DOAP over Atom
Keep Codezoo updated with DOAP (doesn’t seem to work)

Planet Apache

Diwaker Gupta — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:35:21 +0000

I am now syndicated on [[http://planetapache.org|Planet Apache]]!

Greetings to all!

A brief introduction — I’m very new to Apache, and got involved primarily due to my interest in Apache Forrest. This blog is where I ramble now and then about technology, philosophy, movies, vim, linux, ubuntu, forrest and anything else that fancies my thought :-)

BTW, I notice that the //feed// link next to pretty much all names (including mine) on the Planet Apache home page under the Subscriptions list point back to http://planetapache.org — is this the correct behavior? Does’t seem like to me. Ideally the //name// should be a link to the home page (if any), and the //feed// should point to the feed, as it says.

Forrest in Codezoo

Diwaker Gupta — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 02:54:02 +0000

[[http://forrest.apache.org|Forrest]] has [[http://www.codezoo.com/pub/component/2845|been added]] to O’Reilly [[http://codezoo.com|Codezoo]]. Well it was added a long time back, but I just noticed it a few days back :-) I’m now working on getting a [[http://usefulinc.com/doap/|DOAP]] page for Forrest so that Codezoo can stay up to date with new releases.

Forrest PMC

Diwaker Gupta — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 07:03:13 +0000

Its official! I have been elected to the [[http://forrest.apache.org | Forrest]] PMC. PMC stands for Project Management Committee. This is the first time I’m getting formally involved in a significant open source project (to get an idea of how significant Forrest is, take a look at any of the websites under the [[http://xml.apache.org | Apache XML Project]]) so I’m really excited!

Here’s the [[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.forrest.devel/14604 | official announcement]]

Oh yeah, if you haven’t noticed, for the past year (or more), my website (the static part of it) has been built by Forrest.

New look

Diwaker Gupta — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 07:23:52 +0000

For those who haven’t noticed, my website has a new look :) Not only that, this time the blog, gallery and the static content are well integrated with the same theme. Further, this theme is written from scratch by yours truly :) So I’m pretty excited about the whole setup. I’ve updated gallery to the new and shiny gallery 2 beta, and things are looking great. I love the random image feature in the sidebar :)