Tagged: forrest

Forrest’s history


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


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


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


[[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


* 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