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2012-05-01 Thread Jim Jagielski
is this thing on? Just checking :)

Re: Apache Standard C++ Project chair change

2012-05-15 Thread Jim Jagielski
Since being tasked as chair, I've seen no activity. There was an email from Bill regarding 2 outstanding iCLAs, but the response from one of the committers was less than optimistic. That's it. No Emails on dev@ or private@, no code activities, really no evidence at all of renewed

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

2012-08-30 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 committers?

2012-08-31 Thread Jim Jagielski
. Congratulations! Could one of you please update the stdcxx list of committers? I don't mean to punt but I think Jim Jagielski maintains a separate link with the correct list of committers: QUOTE An up-to-date list of all Apache committers (or committers-to-be) is being maintained by Jim Jagielski

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: STDCXX forks

2012-08-31 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Aug 31, 2012, at 8:40 AM, Liviu Nicoara nikko...@hates.ms wrote: Stefan's seem like a complete git-ification of the whole Apache repository but with no changes I could detect. FWIW, The ASF supports git so if people think it would help, all we'd need to do is ask #infra to move stdcxx

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 committers?

2012-08-31 Thread Jim Jagielski
Are you suggesting that FreeBSD does not allow the inclusion of ANY ALv2 library under its ports directory? On Aug 31, 2012, at 2:19 PM, C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: Do they come bundled with the compiler and link against every c++ application by default? I suspect that their

Re: New committers?

2012-08-31 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Aug 31, 2012, at 2:38 PM, C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: On 09/ 1/12 01:35 AM, Stefan Teleman wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:27 PM, C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: stdcxx ends up linking against *EVERY* C++ application if it's used in the default compiler

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

Re: New committers?

2012-09-01 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Aug 31, 2012, at 5:24 PM, Wojciech Meyer wojciech.me...@googlemail.com wrote: Libstc++ is LGPL therefore can link with GPL project, and can link with ALv2 project, but stdcxx is ALv2 and cannot link with GPL project. That's basically what LGPL was designed for, to solve this problem.

Re: New committers?

2012-09-06 Thread Jim Jagielski
As an ASF project? It's not going to happen. On Sep 4, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Martin Sebor mse...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/02/2012 08:42 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Sep 2, 2012, at 12:02 AM, Martin Sebormse...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/31/2012 02:38 PM, Liviu Nicoara wrote: My input below

Re: New committers?

2012-09-06 Thread Jim Jagielski
6, 2012, at 12:26 PM, Martin Sebor mse...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/06/2012 07:22 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: As an ASF project? It's not going to happen. Not necessarily as an ASF project. Christopher is interested in moving the project somewhere else. See for example: http://mail

Re: A question (or two) of procedure, etc.

2012-09-06 Thread Jim Jagielski
Trivial fixes should just be fixed... the normal expectation is that bug reports are for non-trivial bugs or for trivial (and non-trivial) bugs reported from the outside. If a committers sees a bug, just go ahead and fix it, and document the fix in a commit log, changefile, etc ;) On Sep 6,

Re: A question (or two) of procedure, etc.

2012-09-07 Thread Jim Jagielski
Many projects have CTR on trunk and RTC (based on trunk revisions) to branch. This works well. On Sep 7, 2012, at 7:40 AM, Liviu Nicoara nikko...@hates.ms wrote: On 09/06/12 23:00, Martin Sebor wrote: Every project has certain branch strategy, I'm not sure about this so maybe Martin can

Board report time

2012-09-11 Thread Jim Jagielski
It's time for our report to the board... what would we like to share? I see: o renewed discussion on health/viability of pmc o increased development being done o PMC expressing interest in moving to git

[REPORT] Apache C++ Standard Library (stdcxx)

2012-09-12 Thread Jim Jagielski
DESCRIPTION Apache STDCXX is a collection of algorithms, containers, iterators, and other fundamental components of every piece of software, implemented as C++ classes, templates, and functions essential for writing C++ programs. RELEASES * There has not been a release of stdcxx since 2008.

Re: [REPORT] Apache C++ Standard Library (stdcxx)

2012-09-13 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Sep 12, 2012, at 9:51 AM, C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: On 09/12/12 05:39 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: DESCRIPTION * There was some licensing FUD discussed on the list, mostly to promote a rationale for moving the project elsewhere and/or releasing stdcxx under

Re: [REPORT] Apache C++ Standard Library (stdcxx)

2012-09-13 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Sep 13, 2012, at 8:06 AM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: On Sep 12, 2012, at 9:51 AM, C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: On 09/12/12 05:39 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: DESCRIPTION * There was some licensing FUD discussed on the list, mostly to promote a rationale

Re: [REPORT] Apache C++ Standard Library (stdcxx)

2012-09-13 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Sep 13, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: Is this all about your point of view that even though Apache stdcxx is designed as a library, esp as a system library, that GPLv2 programs cannot use and link to it because the FSF says that the ALv2 is incompatible w/ GPLv2

Re: [REPORT] Apache C++ Standard Library (stdcxx)

2012-09-13 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Sep 13, 2012, at 1:24 PM, C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: On 09/13/12 07:43 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: Is that the actionable item of which you speak? You want the ASF to verify something in the GPLv2? No - We want to discuss the Apache foundation transferring their rights

Re: [REPORT] Apache C++ Standard Library (stdcxx)

2012-09-13 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Sep 13, 2012, at 1:12 PM, C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: We appreciate you telling the choir, but it doesn't help resolve this. How to best proceed? Is legal-discuss the best way to go forward or something else? Why? What are you looking for? And who is the expected

Re: [REPORT] Apache C++ Standard Library (stdcxx)

2012-09-13 Thread Jim Jagielski
Sorry. I've been Reply-All'ing. On Sep 13, 2012, at 1:31 PM, Doug Cutting cutt...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:12 AM, C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: Is legal-discuss the best way to go forward or something else? I'm not sure what the question is, but it

Status

2013-04-15 Thread Jim Jagielski
Just a quick Email... the list has been pretty quiet lately and just pinging to see who's still watching and reading :)

Re: Status

2013-05-22 Thread Jim Jagielski
Anyone wish to add anything? Is the project dead and attic bound, or is it not? On Apr 15, 2013, at 11:06 AM, Stefan Teleman stefan.tele...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: Just a quick Email... the list has been pretty quiet lately

Search for new chair

2013-05-29 Thread Jim Jagielski
I am stepping down as Chair of the C++ StdLib PMC. So the question is: Does this project and community elect a new Chair, or does it enter the Attic?

Fwd: [Contact] Media question

2013-08-06 Thread Jim Jagielski
The ASF was asked to comment on the move of the project to the Attic. The below is what was sent. Begin forwarded message: From: Jim Jagielski j...@apache.org Subject: Re: [Contact] Media question To: Serdar Yegulalp ser...@genjipress.com No worries. Here it is again. One of the core

Re: [Contact] Media question

2013-08-06 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Aug 6, 2013, at 11:50 AM, C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com wrote: The Apache way didn't work for this project and instead of trying to think outside the box... Some passionate people (primarily you?) decided it was better to close it. If the Apache way didn't work for this project