SCN: Re: SCN's web front page

[patrick]

I think we should not make a mountain out of a molehill.

rwrap is intended to archive page changes and to track who changed
what on this multi-person system.

It is not a big deal and it is a minor quibble. Sure, I would love to
just ftp a file up, but rwrap is not an issue. What is a big deal is
getting familiar with the vi editor or pico, neither of which I love
with a passion. Neither of which require a large amount of training
to learn.

I did run into a small problem with updating the page in reference to
rwrap. I emailed JJ on in just a moment ago and it should be fixed
pretty quickly.

I hope that people don't feel I am taking sides and being opinionated
on this topic. I am saying that there are, of course, only a couple
of people, at the most, who will be updating the homepage. With that,
rwrap should be of little concern to anyone else. 

The homepage will be updated as quickly as possible.

Patrick
Webmaster/Web Team Coordinator


--- Lorraine Pozzi <femme2 at scn.org> wrote:
> 
> I don't know what's going on lately.  I do know that I offered
> to take over some of the tasks that NancyK had been doing 
> before she died and was given such an absurd runaround that 
> I finally decided it was pointless to volunteer.  Among other
> requirements - I had to speak directly with Nancy!
> 
> I am not surprised that SCN is hurting for cash.  In fact,
> when I saw the money plea, I thought I knew just how
> Dr. Lewinski felt when the Democratic Party asked for his
> check.  
> 
> Lorraine
> -------------------
> 
> 
> On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Rod Clark wrote:
> 
> > Randy Groves wrote:
> > > 'rwrap' is NOT required.  It was suggested as a tool, to
> provide backup in
> > > case of errors - NOT required.
> > > 
> > > There have been NO restrictions imposed, either
> programmatically nor by
> > > policy that removes the ability to edit files with vi, pico,
> etc.
> > 
> > Randy, 
> > 
> >    That is not true, on both counts. The home page has total
> > no-write permissions for the members of the topics group, who if
> > your ststement were true would have write access to edit it with
> > pico or other text editors. But they do NOT have that access.
> > See for yourself:
> > 
> > 4 -r-xr-xr-x  1 guests   topics       3728 Aug 21 13:12
> index.html*
> > 
> >    The ONLY way that the home page can be updated is by using
> > rwrap. You are misleading everyone when you say this is
> > optional. 
> > 
> >    It is also now required by policy to use rwrap. I asked the
> > acting Executive Director on Thursday, "Will you remove rwrap so
> > that Patrick can update the home page?" The answer was "no."
> > 
> >    Because Patrick couldn't FTP the home page file last week
> > (because of the no-write permissions that block FTP), he asked
> > me for help with rwrap, which I tried to give him based on my
> > recollection of an earlier version of rwrap, but it wasn't
> > enough to get the page up. The page still isn't up. And this is
> > the actual, truthful reason. That is the answer to the question
> > that the three volunteers - Irene, Lee and Elaine - asked on
> > this list.
> > 
> >    Communicating with ourselves, and with all the volunteers, is
> > vitally important, and it can't be left to the PR efforts of
> > only a few people in top positions. You and I both were confused
> > about this, because of the lack of forthright communications
> > with volunteers about the situation. Content is being sacrificed
> > because technical considerations like this are being placed
> > first by a leadership with a too-stubborn technical focus. And
> > this is the future of SCN's site, and of SCN itself, before our
> > eyes.
> > 
> > Rod Clark
> > 
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