Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 01:15:16 +0000 From: Daniel Gerzo <danger@rulez.sk> To: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> Cc: www@freebsd.org Subject: Re[3]: This list ignored? Message-ID: <20051229011516.GA73497@tomas.elvandar.org>
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--PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hello Jeremy, Thursday, December 29, 2005, 1:24:48 AM, you wrote: > On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Daniel Gerzo wrote: >>> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=46280+0+archive/2005/freebsd-www20051204.freebsd-www >> >> this one doesn't work for me :( > Copy and paste error. Please add a slash between "www" and "2005". got it ;) The diff is included again. The builded version is available at http://www.sk.freebsd.org/news/press-rel-9.html I hope it's sufficient. >> thanks for your submission, I've included the diff for events.xml in >> this email, hope somebody will commit it ;) > Thank you for the diff. If I don't hear back, I will submit a problem > report via gnats. I think somebody will take it, just give it a little time > Please note that you copied my off-list, non-public email back to the > public mailing list. well, I wanted to point out about what's going on in my e-mail :) sorry if I hurt you somehow. > By the way, I received five emails direct to me in response to my email > today :) Since some of the replies were off-list, others emailed me the > same response. now you know we don't ignore your emails :) like ceri@ said - if you have a feeling that your request is forgotten, just poke us again and wait untill somebody will work on your problem. > The NetBSD "www" team has an on-call rotation. Each week a different > member is responsible for following up on all emails to www@ or via > website feedback/submission forms (and emails to the help@ list that are > not responded to). If they can't take care of the issue (such as pointing > the user to a public mailing list or documentation or updating the > website, etc), then it is their responsibility (for that week) to get > someone else from the "www" team to assist. And anyone on the "www" team > can help, but they email the private list and the on-call person to let > them know that they will handle it (including replying back to original > user). well...that's netbsd's way :) poke some real doc commiter or whoever is resposible for this, and maybe we will see this idea beeing used here too. > Jeremy C. Reed -- Best regards, Daniel mailto:danger@rulez.sk --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="news.diff" diff -ruN news.orig/Makefile news/Makefile --- news.orig/Makefile Sat Nov 5 13:10:53 2005 +++ news/Makefile Thu Dec 29 00:51:27 2005 @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ DOCS+= press-rel-6.sgml DOCS+= press-rel-7.sgml DOCS+= press-rel-8.sgml +DOCS+= press-rel-9.sgml # The yearly State of the Union address DOCS+= sou1999.sgml diff -ruN news.orig/press-rel-9.sgml news/press-rel-9.sgml --- news.orig/press-rel-9.sgml Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 +++ news/press-rel-9.sgml Thu Dec 29 00:59:42 2005 @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" [ +<!ENTITY base CDATA ".."> +<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/news/press-rel-9.sgml,v 1.0 2005/12/26 01:50:00 somebody Exp $"> +<!ENTITY title "Hewlett-Packard donates blade cluster to FreeBSD"> +<!ENTITY % navincludes SYSTEM "../includes.navabout.sgml"> %navincludes; +<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../includes.sgml"> %includes; +<!ENTITY % newsincludes SYSTEM "includes.sgml"> %newsincludes; +]> + +<html> +&header; + +<!-- +<img src="../gifs/news.jpg" align="right" border="0" alt="FreeBSD News"> +--> + +<p></p> + +<p><b>The FreeBSD Foundation received a donation of a blade system from +Hewlett-Packard for use as a third-party software build cluster. +This 20-node HP BladeSystem cluster triples the speed of the build +process for i386 packages.</b></p> + +<p><i>"With this generous donation from HP, we are able to continuously +produce up-to-date packages from more than 13000 ports of third-party +software available in the FreeBSD Ports Collection, at about three +times the rate of the previous hardware cluster,"</i> said Kris Kennaway, +member of the FreeBSD Port Management Team.</p> + +<p><i>"This directly benefits the users of FreeBSD through the rapid +availability of new and updated software packages, and through the +increased testing and QA of FreeBSD that the new hardware allows."</i></p> + +<p><i>"We at HP recognize the important role of FreeBSD in the Internet's +global network infrastructure, and we are happy that the HP +BladeSystem cluster can contribute to the on-going success of the +FreeBSD Foundation,"</i> said Mark Potter, vice president of the +Hewlett-Packard BladeSystem division.</p> + +<p><i>"They're just standard i386 systems, architecturally, with a very +nice ssh- and serial-based management server."</i> said Kennaway, who +maintains the FreeBSD Ports cluster.</p> + +<p>Kennaway said FreeBSD has a few dozen other machines scattered +around the globe for package builds. A big concentration of sparc +machines hosted by Hiroki Sato in Japan include some large +multiprocessor e4500's (10, 12 and 14 CPUs) that have been extremely +valuable for SMP testing. Also, a couple of machines hosted by ISC, +an amd64 hosted by Scott Long, three i386 machines at Yahoo! Korea, +and sometimes Kennaway's own machines in Canada are used for the +official package builds.</p> + +<p>The HP BladeSystem cluster is hosted at the Yahoo! datacenter in +the San Francisco Bay area. In addition to Kennaway, Paul Saab +and Peter Wemm from the FreeBSD project, and John Cagle from HP +helped with blade system setup.</p> + +<h3>About The FreeBSD Project</h3> + +<p>The FreeBSD Project provides an up-to-date and scalable modern operating +system that offers high-performance, security, and advanced networking for +personal workstations, Internet servers, routers, and firewalls. The +FreeBSD packages collection includes popular software like Apache Web +Server, Gnome, KDE, X.org X11 Window System, Python, Mozilla, and over +13,000 software suites. FreeBSD can be found on the Internet at +<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/">http://www.FreeBSD.org</a>.</p>; + +<h3>More Information:</h3> + +<p>FreeBSD Ports webpage<br> +<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/ports/">http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/</a>; +<br><br> +FreeBSD Package building logs and errors webpage<br> +<a href="http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/">http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/</a></p>; + +&footer; +</body> +</html> diff -ruN news.orig/press.diff news/press.diff --- news.orig/press.diff Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 +++ news/press.diff Thu Dec 29 01:03:42 2005 @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +--- Makefile~ Sat Nov 5 13:10:53 2005 ++++ Makefile Thu Dec 29 00:51:27 2005 +@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ + DOCS+= press-rel-6.sgml + DOCS+= press-rel-7.sgml + DOCS+= press-rel-8.sgml ++DOCS+= press-rel-9.sgml + + # The yearly State of the Union address + DOCS+= sou1999.sgml diff -ruN news.orig/pressreleases.sgml news/pressreleases.sgml --- news.orig/pressreleases.sgml Sat Nov 5 13:10:53 2005 +++ news/pressreleases.sgml Thu Dec 29 00:50:40 2005 @@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ <dl> +<dt>November 25, 2005</dt> +<dd> +<a href="press-rel-9.html">Hewlett-Packard donates blade cluster to FreeBSD</a> +<p></p> +<dd> + <dt>November 4, 2005</dt> <dd> <a href="press-rel-8.html">FreeBSD Project Launches FreeBSD 6.0</a> --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr--
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