Re: Updating http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html

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'll just send you
the 
> new file. You can find it here:
> 
> http://www.shlomifish.org/perl-timeline-temp/PerlTimeline.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've put
into 
> the existing timeline, it's highly possible a collaboration between Andy

> Lester, Chris Dolan and I (and other people of the Perl community) can
yeild 
> something substantial and under a more usable licensing terms. We are
going 
> to respect the copyrights owner****p of the existing timeline and not
re-use 
> material from there directly, without your permission.
> 
It's a real shame the perl6 people seem to be incapable of using the work
from 
the perl5 people - or have I misread the thread?

I mean, Elaine sounds a bit pissed off, but I'm not really surprised when
she 
gets her project whipped from under her feet.  Never mind that it's not
been 
updated for a while - surely we should respect her 'owner****p' of that
corner 
and work to get co-editing facilities of it in some way, much like when 
Michael gave out commit bits for the Test::More code to a choice group of 
interested individuals some time ago.  This kind of thing happens all the 
time, it's called co-operation.

I don't see why we have to trash the old stuff, just because certain
people 
have positions of power and can (ab-)use it to side-step the issue.

Just my four-penneth!

-- 
Richard Foley
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