9 Apr 2004 DV   » (Master)

xml:id

Fist working draft is out. First implementation hit libxml2 CVS tonight it took less than an hour, including setting up basic regression tests. Not finished of course, we will see how long it takes to bring that one to REC if it ever gets there.

I answered a few questions in the mailing-list about it too.

The germans gets it

While searching on the web I found a CVS web repository at http://cvs.zeit.de/code/view/mod_xslt/cms_extensions.html?rev=HEAD . The Zeit is one of the largest German newspaper, it does a lot of electronic publishing of course and has a CMS system. Big business, industry leader, not computer related, *but* since they developped extensions for Apache and Zope for their CMS, they documented their architecture and created a public CVS base ! They understand that it is not in their business interest to keep it internal and that giving back changes is important.

It's also SAP a leading german IT company who gave back their (aging but solid) Database for which MySQL is apparently providing support now. It seems to me, that the german industry understood the concepts and perspectives of open source and free software earlier, reading their IT press reinforce that feeling.

mailman bounces handling

The perl script I hacked last week-end works fairly well, it reduced the work to a few manual bounces uncaught and approving the valid but blocked posts. In the meantime William Brack rewrote the script in python, I didn't checked it out yet, but I will certainly switch since I feel better maintaining Python code.

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