[Webteam] [Box-Admins] box2 process terminated for old homepage

Chris Cunnington websela at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 17 15:13:57 UTC 2014


On Mar 17, 2014, at 11:12 AM, Chris Muller <ma.chris.m at gmail.com> wrote:

>> May we please retain the old site a while longer (at some different
>> url or even IP is fine)?  I would like to actually finally _read_ it
>> all the way, but it disappeared before I had a chance.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Read it on your computer in localhost [1].
>> 
>> I don't think there's any really need to be sentimental about the old site.
>> I killed the process to use the cycles for productive processes.
> 
> Hey Chris, I know everyone appreciates the work you did on the new
> site and I'm glad you had free-reign to make it good without a lot of
> overhead.  Going forward, could you possibly take a more conservative
> tact esp. w.r.t. moving, killing and deleting long-running stuff?
> Maybe a little notice to the community, or at least leaving yourself
> in a position to reverse your actions in case there might be a
> community need for some file before you unilaterally zap it into
> oblivion?
> 
> Look to how Ken would have handled such a thing, or how David Lewis
> handled the transition of squeaksource.com, or how I tried to handle
> the 4.5 release -- by being slow, methodical, and involving the
> community.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>> But, hey, the Board meeting's tomorrow and you can table something.
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I think you're right. I'll do that. 

Chris 


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