Re: New chair and/or attic

2012-08-31 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Aug 30, 2012, at 6:48 AM, C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: I'm sincerely sorry to ask this and I have my own answers, but why continue STDCXX when such negativity from Apache is apparent.. What negativity are you seeing? I'm not seeing any, certainly nothing that is

Re: New chair and/or attic

2012-08-31 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Aug 30, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Martin Sebor mse...@gmail.com wrote: There's always good traffic when this topic comes up. Thanks to Jim who's made it his mission to pull the plug on STDCXX. I think this must be his third or fourth proposal to vote the project into the attic. No, it's not

Re: New chair and/or attic

2012-08-31 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Aug 30, 2012, at 5:45 PM, C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: --- The facts as I know it 1) Our fork is maintained (continuous bug fixes - which we won't submit to Apache now) Why? 2) Stefan is putting in some work (one man army) Hardly a healthy community if just 1

Re: New chair and/or attic

2012-08-31 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Aug 30, 2012, at 8:00 PM, C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: While STDCXX is at Apache it will never be BSD licensed. Solution - move it away from Apache foundation and have them transfer some of the additional rights they received to allow recipient foundation to relicense. I

Re: New chair and/or attic

2012-08-31 Thread C. Bergström
On 08/31/12 07:20 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Aug 30, 2012, at 8:00 PM, C. Bergströmcbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: While STDCXX is at Apache it will never be BSD licensed. Solution - move it away from Apache foundation and have them transfer some of the additional rights they received to

Re-focus [was: Re: New chair and/or attic]

2012-08-31 Thread Liviu Nicoara
On 08/31/12 08:18, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Aug 30, 2012, at 5:45 PM, C. Bergströmcbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: [...] STDCXX isn't some stupid ass java framework or widget - It's a *critical* part of a C++ stack and the cost of leaving it out of the attic is negligible - What's the benefit

Re: New chair and/or attic

2012-08-31 Thread Stefan Teleman
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 8:43 AM, C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: On 08/31/12 07:20 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Aug 30, 2012, at 8:00 PM, C. Bergströmcbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: While STDCXX is at Apache it will never be BSD licensed. Solution - move it away from Apache

Re: New chair and/or attic

2012-08-31 Thread Pavel Heimlich, a.k.a. hajma
2012/8/31 Stefan Teleman stefan.tele...@gmail.com: On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Pavel Heimlich, a.k.a. hajma tropikha...@gmail.com wrote: well, it's half year since revival of the project was announced and has there been any progress/improvements? The state of this is a koma at best.

Re: New chair and/or attic

2012-08-31 Thread Jim Jagielski
The idea that ALv2 projects can't be added to FreeBSD ports is complete and total hogwash. Pure FUD. On Aug 31, 2012, at 8:43 AM, C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: On 08/31/12 07:20 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Aug 30, 2012, at 8:00 PM, C. Bergströmcbergst...@pathscale.com wrote:

Re: New chair and/or attic

2012-08-31 Thread C. Bergström
On 09/ 1/12 01:17 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: The idea that ALv2 projects can't be added to FreeBSD ports is complete and total hogwash. Pure FUD. Thanks for the top post and your view... Can you actually address the issue and question? On Aug 31, 2012, at 8:43 AM, C.

Re: New chair and/or attic

2012-08-31 Thread C. Bergström
On 09/ 1/12 01:28 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: Your suggestion is that, somehow, one cannot push stdcxx as part of the FreeBSD ports collection. And that is because it is licensed under ALv2. My response is that that suggestion is total hogwash. That's not an authoritative response - To help

Re: New chair and/or attic

2012-08-31 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Aug 31, 2012, at 2:41 PM, C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: On 09/ 1/12 01:28 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: Your suggestion is that, somehow, one cannot push stdcxx as part of the FreeBSD ports collection. And that is because it is licensed under ALv2. My response is that that

Re: New chair and/or attic

2012-08-31 Thread C. Bergström
On 09/ 1/12 02:01 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Aug 31, 2012, at 2:41 PM, C. Bergströmcbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: On 09/ 1/12 01:28 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: Your suggestion is that, somehow, one cannot push stdcxx as part of the FreeBSD ports collection. And that is because it is licensed

Re: New chair and/or attic

2012-08-30 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Aug 29, 2012, at 1:12 PM, Liviu Nicoara nikko...@hates.ms wrote: On 08/29/12 10:54, Jim Jagielski wrote: Looking over the lack of activity within this project, it's obvious (at least to me), that maybe its day is done. Should I call a vote to move C++ to the Attic? Or is there someone

Re: New chair and/or attic

2012-08-30 Thread C. Bergström
I'm sincerely sorry to ask this and I have my own answers, but why continue STDCXX when such negativity from Apache is apparent.. Will Apache consider passing along some/all of it's CLA granted rights/additional permissions to another foundation that hosts open source projects? or Why not

Re: New chair and/or attic

2012-08-30 Thread Liviu Nicoara
On 08/30/12 06:38, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Aug 29, 2012, at 1:12 PM, Liviu Nicoaranikko...@hates.ms wrote: The discussion back in February showed that, even though committers have not spent much time lately contributing new code to it, there is an active review of the activity occurring on

Re: New chair and/or attic

2012-08-30 Thread Liviu Nicoara
On 08/30/12 06:48, C. Bergström wrote: I'm sincerely sorry to ask this and I have my own answers, but why continue STDCXX when such negativity from Apache is apparent.. AFAICT, the Apache Foundation has been a good host for STDCXX during these years. They have provided a framework for STDCXX

Re: New chair and/or attic

2012-08-30 Thread Liviu Nicoara
On 08/30/12 08:56, C. Bergström wrote: On 08/30/12 07:29 PM, Liviu Nicoara wrote: AFAICT, the Apache Foundation has been a good host for STDCXX during these years. They have provided a framework [...] in accordance to their principles about what constitutes a healthy software project. I

Re: New chair and/or attic

2012-08-30 Thread Pavel Heimlich, a.k.a. hajma
On Aug 30, 2012 2:58 PM, C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: On 08/30/12 07:29 PM, Liviu Nicoara wrote: On 08/30/12 06:48, C. Bergström wrote: I'm sincerely sorry to ask this and I have my own answers, but why continue STDCXX when such negativity from Apache is apparent.. AFAICT,

Re: New chair and/or attic

2012-08-30 Thread C. Bergström
On 08/31/12 03:10 AM, Pavel Heimlich, a.k.a. hajma wrote: 2) Posting the project is dead on a public list certainly doesn't help grow a community well, it's half year since revival of the project was announced and has there been any progress/improvements? The state of this is a koma at best.

Re: New chair and/or attic

2012-08-30 Thread Liviu Nicoara
On Aug 30, 2012, at 5:45 PM, C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: On 08/31/12 03:10 AM, Pavel Heimlich, a.k.a. hajma wrote: 2) Posting the project is dead on a public list certainly doesn't help grow a community well, it's half year since revival of the project was announced and

Re: New chair and/or attic

2012-08-30 Thread Liviu Nicoara
On Aug 30, 2012, at 8:00 PM, C. Bergström wrote: On 08/31/12 06:43 AM, Liviu Nicoara wrote: While I recognize the value of each one of the points you make, I am puzzled as to why you are not going forward on your way with your fork? How is the Apache Foundation keeping you from making

New chair and/or attic

2012-08-29 Thread Jim Jagielski
Looking over the lack of activity within this project, it's obvious (at least to me), that maybe its day is done. Should I call a vote to move C++ to the Attic? Or is there someone who feels that the project should still exist *and* is willing to stand as chair?

Re: New chair and/or attic

2012-08-29 Thread Liviu Nicoara
On 08/29/12 10:54, Jim Jagielski wrote: Looking over the lack of activity within this project, it's obvious (at least to me), that maybe its day is done. Should I call a vote to move C++ to the Attic? Or is there someone who feels that the project should still exist *and* is willing to stand as

Re: New chair and/or attic

2012-08-29 Thread Stefan Teleman
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Liviu Nicoara nikko...@hates.ms wrote: On 08/29/12 10:54, Jim Jagielski wrote: Looking over the lack of activity within this project, it's obvious (at least to me), that maybe its day is done. Should I call a vote to move C++ to the Attic? Or is there someone

Re: New chair and/or attic

2012-08-29 Thread Stefan Teleman
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Liviu Nicoara nikko...@hates.ms wrote: On 08/29/12 10:54, Jim Jagielski wrote: Looking over the lack of activity within this project, it's obvious (at least to me), that maybe its day is done. Should I call a vote to move C++ to the Attic? Or is there someone