Re: [VOTE] Resolution to graduate Apache FreeMarker to TLP

2018-02-20 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
+1 (Binding) On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 11:45 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: > Hi all, > > The FreeMarker community has discussed [1] and voted [2] positively on > graduating to a top level project (TLP). The resolution for the graduation > has been proposed and discussed in this

Re: Incubation disclaimer in German?

2018-02-15 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
2018-02-14 14:15 GMT+01:00 Christofer Dutz : > I am currently finishing some magazine articles about Apache PLC4X and Apache > Edgent and therefore sent Sally my documents fort he official „ok“ … I should > add the incubation disclaimer to my articles. As these are

Re: [VOTE] Retire Wave

2018-01-08 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
+1 for retirement (binding) On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 8:34 PM, Danese Cooper wrote: > +1 to retire (binding) > > Danese > > On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 6:56 PM, John D. Ament wrote: > >> All, >> >> This is a call to vote for the retirement of the Wave podling.

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Juneau 6.2.0-incubating-RC1

2017-04-28 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
If it's not too late: Here's my +1. On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 8:12 PM, James Bognar wrote: > Reminder that the deadline for this vote has passed and we still need 1 > more binding vote. > > Thanks! > > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 9:33 AM, John D. Ament

Re: [VOTE] Drop incubating requirement of Maven artifacts

2017-01-06 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
-1 Because I fail to see a problem with the current policy. On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 6:22 PM, John D. Ament wrote: > All, > > I'm calling to vote on a proposed policy change. Current guide at [1] > indicates that maven artifacts should include incubator (or incubating) in

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Commons RDF from incubator

2016-11-23 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
+1 (Binding) On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote: > [Note: this is the IPMC vote on general@incubator - there's a > concurrent VOTE thread on dev@commons] > > Since Commons RDF entered incubation, it has evolved the understanding > of its purpose,

Re: [DISCUSS] Weex for Apache Incubator

2016-11-22 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Emilian Bold wrote: > How can the project name be a problem when "weex" sounds to me like the > very common English word *weeks*? Depends on the language. In german, it's close to a slang word for "masturbation", Not sufficiently close,

Re: [VOTE] Accept RocketMQ into the Apache Incubator

2016-11-10 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
I am +1 (Binding) On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Bruce Snyder wrote: > Subsequent to the discussion on RocketMQ, I would like to call a vote on > accepting RocketMQ into the Apache Incubator. > > [ ] +1 Accept RocketMQ into the Apache Incubator > [ ] +0 Abstain. > [ ] -1

Re: Incubator chat on Hipchat?

2016-11-03 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Emilian Bold wrote: > So by default a HipChat conversation would be equivalent to using private@ > except when somebody manually activates recording which produces a wiki > page with no email notification whatsoever? That is how I

Re: Incubator chat on Hipchat?

2016-11-03 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Emilian Bold wrote: > Would hipchat be logged somewhere? > > Is it possible to be at least some weekly digest email? That might be possible. See INFRA-12328. Jochen -- The next time you hear: "Don't reinvent the wheel!"

Re: [IP CLEARANCE] Aether, renamed to Maven Artifact Resolver

2016-09-28 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
*Big* +1. Lets hope, that Sisu follows (sooner, or later). It feels *so* unnatural, to have this stuff at Eclipse. On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Hervé Boutemy wrote: > Apache Maven received a code donation for Aether, that we renamed to Maven > Artifact Resolver to fix a

Re: Git release candidate tagging policy? [was: Re: [VOTE] Apache BatchEE 0.4-incubating]

2016-09-28 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:09 PM, Ate Douma wrote: >> Stian, this is established practice in the ASF since the very early days Could someone please enlighten me, what "this" is about? Thanks, Jochen -- The next time you hear: "Don't reinvent the wheel!"

Re: [VOTE] Accept NetBeans into the Apache Incubator

2016-09-28 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
+1 (Binding) On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 10:30 PM, Ate Douma wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Now that the discussion thread on the NetBeans Proposal has ended, > please vote on accepting NetBeans into the Apache Incubator. > > The ASF voting rules are described at: >

Re: Radical proposal: no initial list of committers

2016-09-28 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
In all honesty: What would I as a mentor do, to get the project rolling? Obvious: Ask the mailing list for an "Initial committer list". So, what's the point? Jochen On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > The NetBeans proposal (among many others in the past) has

Re: Reuse Maven repository more was: Preliminary NetBeans cost findings

2016-09-28 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 5:13 AM, Jaroslav Tulach wrote: > There are also the [3rd party binaries used during NetBeans build](http:// > hg.netbeans.org/binaries/) - most of them available from Maven central. I > already [created a

Re: [DISCUSS] Apache NetBeans Incubator Proposal

2016-09-21 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > Still, the question remain -- for somebody like that, what would be a criteria > to be added as a committer after the project enters incubation? Projects decision. -- The next time you hear: "Don't reinvent the

Re: ASF Android release policy

2016-09-13 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: > Finally, Infra does also provide access to a code signing service you > can use to sign you apps if that is useful. Probably only if you want to > distribute apps outside of Google play. More infos on that, please. Jochen

Re: [DISCUSS] Apache NetBeans Incubator Proposal

2016-09-13 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > I also realized that he'll be the only US-based mentors, so he can > take all the press requests from there ;-) I am unaware, that taking press requests is part of mentor duties. One reason to hesitate in the

Re: ASF Android release policy

2016-09-13 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Ian Dunlop wrote: > In the Taverna Incubator project we have been developing an Android mobile > app which is almost ready for a first release. Are there any ASF procedures > and policies for doing an Android release? Can an ASF based

Re: [VOTE] $podling.apache.org is the same as $podling.incubator.apache.org

2016-06-29 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > This vote makes me cranky. Everyone is focused on making it easier for > podlings. Is the goal of incubation to pass a graduation vote or to learn? True, but I don't think that life should be more difficult for

Re: [VOTE] $podling.apache.org is the same as $podling.incubator.apache.org

2016-06-29 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Nick Kew wrote: > Perhaps it would make sense for $podling.apache.org to > issue a 302 redirect to the incubator? Then it's there > for people and search engines, but the potential for > being accidentally misleading is much reduced. We are not

Re: [VOTE] $podling.apache.org is the same as $podling.incubator.apache.org

2016-06-28 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
+1 to implementing this in the future. -0 for retroactive implementation. On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Flavio Junqueira wrote: > +1 > >> On 28 Jun 2016, at 15:28, John D. Ament wrote: >> >> All, >> >> Its been discussed a few times, and I'd like to

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache FreeMarker 2.3.25 (incubating)

2016-06-23 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
+1 (Binding) On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 7:47 PM, wrote: > Hi all, > > The Apache FreeMarker community has voted on and approved a proposal > to release Apache FreeMarker 2.3.25-incubating. > > PPMC Vote Call: >

Re: [VOTE] Accept Juneau into the Apache Incubator

2016-06-21 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 7:10 PM, James Bognar wrote: > Hi all, > > It looks like the discussion thread has died down so I am now calling a > vote on accepting Juneau into the Apache Incubator. > > For those who are interested the DISCUSS thread can be found at >

Re: [DISCUSS] Juneau Incubation Proposal

2016-06-20 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 4:27 PM, James Bognar wrote: > @Stian, > > I've removed references to "Apache" from the temp site and removing all > links to the GitHub repo. The only thing I can't change is the google site > URL https://sites.google.com/site/apachejuneau/.

Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-14 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:29 PM, John D. Ament wrote: > We generally expect some kind of backing community to bring this to. We > have seen pretty consistently that starting from an empty community doesn't > work. It doesn't mean that it's impossible, but very hard to

Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-14 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 12:25 PM, James Carman wrote: > We (the Commons PMC) have not decided yet what to do, but I just wanted to > gauge the interest in joining the math IPMC if we choose to go TLP by way > of the incubator. The idea would be that math (whatever its

Re: [ALL] Volunteers for a Math IPMC?

2016-06-14 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > Looking back through the discussion, it is a bit of a problem that one of > the major reasons given for the fork is that the team thought that they > didn't have a large enough PMC and that incubation wouldn't get them

Re: Looking for mentors

2016-06-08 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
I worked as a mentor before in projects like VXQuery, or AsterixDB. I'd be ready to do the same for Juneau. However, AFAIK, I don't qualify nowadays. (In the past, it was sufficient to be a member, this has to be changed to be an Incubator PMC member.) Jochen On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 3:38 AM,

Add Chris Hillery as a committer to AsterixDB

2015-10-16 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Hi, in a thread with the subject "[VOTE] Add Chris Hillery as a committer and PPMC member" the AsterixDB project has unanimously decided to invite Chris Hillery to become a committer. (Sorry, no quote, because the vote was happening on private@) Chris has already supplied a CLA.( he is listed on

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache AsterixDB 0.8.7-incubating (RC3)

2015-10-13 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
+1 (Binding) On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 10:16 PM, Ian Maxon wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Please verify and vote on the first full Apache AsterixDB release! > This candidate addresses some of the differences that were noticed > between the tagged commit in git and the source packaging.

Fwd: Welcome Heath Alexander Mattmann!

2015-08-06 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Forwarding to general@incubator, where it is obviously on-topic. -- Forwarded message -- From: Mattmann, Chris A (3980) chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov Date: Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 8:30 PM Subject: Welcome Heath Alexander Mattmann! To: memb...@apache.org memb...@apache.org Hi

Re: Podling request: Gerrit

2015-07-15 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Chris Hillery chill...@hillery.land wrote: I feel sure that with an ASF-hosted Gerrit, we wouldn't be able to install any hooks or plugins, or manage permissions, or anything like that in the way that we find useful. Not initially, to be sure. But in the

Re: Podling request: Gerrit

2015-07-15 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 5:56 AM, David Nalley da...@gnsa.us wrote: We've explored gerrit 2-3 times in the past 24 months. We have seen several projects request it over the years. As I've mentioned elsewhere in this thread, our most recent exploration was in December, and there are a number of

Re: Podling request: Gerrit

2015-07-15 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Ian Maxon ima...@uci.edu wrote: Then what are they submitting a patch for review to, exactly? That is the question, indeed. And, please, keep in mind that the answer must satisfy not a humble developer with no red tape in mind, but a lawyer. Second, Gerrit

Re: Podling request: Gerrit

2015-07-15 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Ian Maxon ima...@uci.edu wrote: I guess there's some legal issue I'm ignorant of here then. How would one submit a patch, without cloning from the official mirror, and hence becoming just as aware of ASF involvement as they would otherwise? The legal issue

Re: [DISCUSS] Groovy Incubation proposal

2015-03-12 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Hello, Jochen, On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Jochen Theodorou community equals committers? No. The community is more than the team of committers. I'm sure you understand. OTOH, the set of committers can be considered a representation of the community. I am quite certain, most Incubator

Re: July 2013 report

2013-07-19 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.comwrote: What kind of Mentor activity do you think VXQuery would benefit from? I don't think, there are any pressing issues. Basically, as I know from my own experience, you can feel kinda lost, if mentors aren't actively

Fwd: July 2013 report

2013-07-18 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Hi, I am no longer able to sign this off, as the Wiki page is already closed for edits. So, for the record: Till's report is just fine, in particular his remark on the less-than-active mentors. (Sorry for that.) Jochen On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Till t...@westmann.org wrote: Hi, the

VXQuery release needs votes

2013-04-12 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Hi, we need three votes by PMC members on the release of vxquery-0.2-incubating. See http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201302.mbox/%3c49a2d7eb-6514-4ffe-b583-2be1a53a5...@westmann.org%3E Thanks, Jochen -- That's what prayers are ... it's frightened people trying to

Re: VXQuery: A Mentor's View

2012-07-18 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Thanks. Anything current I should take a look at? On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Vinayak Borkar vbo...@yahoo.com wrote: The VXQuery PPMC just concluded a vote to add Jochen Wiedmann as a mentor for the VXQuery project. The vote passed with the whole PPMC in favor of the addition. When I

Re: VXQuery: A Mentor's View

2012-07-16 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Till Westmann t...@westmann.org wrote: if you could find time to do that, it would be great if you would come on board as a full-fledged mentor! That's always been my desire, and still is. -- In other words: what could be seen as a socially debilitating

Re: VXQuery: A Mentor's View

2012-07-16 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Start with a question on general@incubator? On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Vinayak Borkar vbo...@yahoo.com wrote: Great! What is the process to officially make you a mentor? Thanks, Vinayak On 7/16/12 2:27 AM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Till Westmann t

Re: VXQuery: A Mentor's View

2012-07-13 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
I'm not active in any way, but at least watching and open for requests. Additionally, I recently became ASF member, so should now be formally eligible as a mentor. Jochen On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Franklin, Matthew B. mfrank...@mitre.org wrote: I wanted to echo the recent thread

Re: Vote plans for OOo proposal

2011-06-10 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: There are still people signing up as initial committers. Is it a sign to wait a bit longer with the vote? There's no problem with them joining later, is it? -- Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most

Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-10 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: [  ] +1 Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation [  ] +0 Indifferent to OpenOffice.org incubation [  ] -1 Reject OpenOffice.org for incubation +1 (Non-binding) -- Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest

Re: Upstream/Downstream (was OpenOffice LibreOffice)

2011-06-08 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: [...] their downstream code cannot be used.  Hence, the best outcome under the current licensing regime is for all core development to be done

Re: Happy happy joy joy

2011-06-08 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: Is that a copyleft swallow or an ALv2 swallow? No definitive indicator for the latter, but if it consumes parts of the other, then it must be the former ... -- Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest

Re: OpenOffice: Arguments and facts. Going ahead

2011-06-07 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: The only thing I really don't have read anything about is, if we can handle this project from infra-resourcing. Joe Schaefer added himself as a mentor, so we can consider that covered. -- Capitalism is the

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: The words not surprisingly were not necessary.  Labeling these words as an insult, while arguably technically accurate, increased rather than reduced tension. Guys, aren't you married? This not surprisingly simply

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:52 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: To the extent that OOo presents the incubator with something the ASF has not faced, you are correct... these things we have no standards yet to measure whether a podling should be accepted.  To the extent that it is

Re: Question to TDF and its community

2011-06-06 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: For the record; I am opposing this contribution and will vote -1, unless there is a clear indication that TDF/LO is behind it 100% and the two projects are on a trajectory of a merge. Niclas, several people from TDF/LO,

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-05 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:44 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: I am puzzled by the view one open source project should not compete against another. And I am puzzled how you don't accept that open source *allows* forking and all that stuff, but that doesn't mean that competition is necessarily

OO/LO License (Was: Apache OpenOffice.org Incubator Proposal: Collaboration with TDF/LO)

2011-06-04 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Excuse me for interrupting ... On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:01 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: LibreOffice uses a dual license LGPLv3/MPL. I've been reading MPL a few times in this discussion. But neither http://www.libreoffice.org/download/license/ nor

Re: OO/LO License (Was: Apache OpenOffice.org Incubator Proposal: Collaboration with TDF/LO)

2011-06-04 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: This, by the way, is the source of some of the irritation from TDF, who went to a fair bit of trouble to accommodate IBM but have been represented otherwise on Rob's blog and elsewhere. And rightfully so, if your

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:10 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Jochen Wiedmann jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com wrote on 06/01/2011 02:56:10 PM: We could have put a much longer list of IBM names on this list, developers familiar with the code base via their work on Lotus Symphony (which is our

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
I view this proposal very critical. IMO, OpenOffice@Apache would be a dead end: - There is an existing community over at LibreOffice. So what good does it, to build a second community here? - The afore mentioned community was built exactly, because the initiators of the current proposal have been

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 8:24 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: We could have put a much longer list of IBM names on this list, developers familiar with the code base via their work on Lotus Symphony (which is our OpenOffice based project).  But then we could have been criticized for the

Re: [DISCUSS] Apache OGNL

2011-04-08 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Mark Struberg strub...@yahoo.de wrote: +1 for a rename. Using an established project name might create problems with the trademark. Best you ping trademarks@a.o about it. I think, there is a misunderstandment. This is *the* OGNL project, we are talking about

Re: JXTA Migration to ASF - Looking for a Champion

2010-10-28 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
I'm not qualified as a mentor, but I'm in for #3, which should help to get a sufficient number. Jochen On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Jérôme Verstrynge jvers...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, The JXTA community has overwhelmingly voted in favor of migrating to ASF. I understand that we first need

Re: Podling to use native git

2010-10-01 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: I do branches all the time in Subversion, and don't see problems. We periodically update the branch from trunk, and when the work is done, merge the branch back onto trunk. These are straight-forward operations, so I don't

Re: Need some clarity on a small size code donation

2010-08-18 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
BSD license as in with advertising clause or as in new BSD license without advertising clause? IANAL, but my impression is that the reply depends on that. Jochen On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@apache.org wrote: Over on the Clerezza project I've been asked some advice

Re: Subversion full/partial committer (was: Re: an experiment)

2010-08-18 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 18:02, Sanjiva Weerawarana sanj...@opensource.lk wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.namewrote: When I saw this month's board report for Subversion, I was taken

Re: RAT can be dangerous

2010-08-17 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Ross, while I understand the All it does part I don't get the dangerous part. I think noone has ever announced RAT as a solution. It is a helper tool. I think the recommendation to use RAT (for what it offers) is just plainly right. Nothing more - nothing less. Jochen On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at

Announce: Apache RAT 0.7

2010-08-10 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Hi, on behalf of the Apache RAT team, I'd like to announce the availability of Apache RAT 0.7. This is a feature release with several bug fixes and minor improvements over its predecessor, Apache RAT 0.6. An upgrade is recommended. For details on Apache RAT, see http://incubator.apache.org/rat

Future of RAT

2010-08-10 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Hi, having just published a release of Apache RAT with the -incubating label, I'd though it is time to discuss the future of RAT. RAT is an incubator project since 18 months. It is not an overly busy project: The occasional feature request, which is handled, a bug report from time to time, and so

Re: Future of RAT

2010-08-10 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Forgot one possible issue: Currently, RAT has its own mailing lists, which would be unusual for Commons. My personal choice would be to leave this as it is, but that's of course also subject to discussion. Jochen On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Jochen Wiedmann jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Future of RAT

2010-08-10 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote: I feel kind of the opposite -- RAT is an important tool that's required of all the Incubator projects, but pretty widely integrated (at least in Java land) outside of the Incubator as a tool to help

Re: Future of RAT

2010-08-10 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Mark Struberg strub...@yahoo.de wrote: Maybe I need to catch up with the current status: is RAT still mainly targeted to ASF projects, or is it a general Release Audit Tool and as such also useful for releasing GPLed or BSL style projects? Unfortunately, there

[RESULT] Release Apache RAT 0.7

2010-08-09 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Passed with 5* +1 (Kevan Miller, Senaka Fernando, Ant Elder, Stefan Bodewig, Gavin McDonald), and no =0, or -1 votes. I'll proceed with publishing the files. Jochen -- I Am What I Am And That's All What I Yam (Popeye) - To

Re: VOTE: Release Apache RAT 0.7

2010-08-06 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
It is http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-rat-dev/201008.mbox/%3caanlkti=mzd4dm+o=fsyyxncs8mk8f5c-e6vand_es...@mail.gmail.com%3e for the initial vote request and http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-rat-dev/201008.mbox/%3c87wrsa50ny@v35516.1blu.de%3e

VOTE: Release Apache RAT 0.7

2010-08-05 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Hi, the RAT developer team would like your approvement for a release of Apache RAT 0.7. The distribution files (binary and source) are here: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacherat-051/org/apache/rat/apache-rat/0.7/ The proposed site and the KEYS file are here:

Re: A few questions about a potential entry into the incubator

2010-07-27 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@apache.org wrote: Finally, they have a large number of users and thus changing their java package names to org.apache.* will create considerable problems for them. They are happy with the package names but want to do it in a managed way

Re: [PROPOSAL] gXML project

2010-07-14 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
I am interested in the project and would offer to act as a mentor. One question though: Could you explain, how this project compares to VXQuery (http://incubator.apache.org/vxquery/) Thanks, Jochen On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Eric Johnson e...@tibco.com wrote: Hi, I'm here proposing

VOTE: Release Apache RAT 0.7

2010-07-13 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Hi, I'd like to ask for a release of Apache RAT 0.7. The distribution files (binary and source) are here: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacherat-057/org/apache/rat/apache-rat/0.7/ The proposed site is here: http://people.apache.org/~jochen/rat/site/ The list

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-10 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:59 PM, C. Michael Pilato cmpil...@collab.net wrote: Subversion client and server that doesn't use a DAV layer at all.  The Subversion community has never released binaries -- ever -- not do we plan to. That would a completely new philosophy for an Apache project,

Re: VXQuery - For want of a mentor...

2009-07-02 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
If it helps, I'd also be interested in taking a mentors work. I am no ASF member. However I am and have been in the PMC of Commons and WS for some years. Apart from that; I'd have a professional interest in the project, because it is more than likely that I could use it soon. Jochen On Thu,

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Apache VXQuery

2009-06-30 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Honestly, Niclas, but if you and possibly others that strict, then we should change the official policy. I do not doubt the reasons you give, but such a statement seems difficult to me, if the official policy clearly demands it, but insisting on more than the policy requests seems questionable to

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Apache VXQuery

2009-06-30 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Niclas Hedhmannic...@hedhman.org wrote: I assuming you are protesting against the more than 1 Mentor attitude that I and others have... Not as such. I am simply suggesting that we should change the policy explicitly, so that it does match reality. Jochen --

Re: [DISCUSS] Sanselan as a Commons library

2009-04-18 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Hi, Craig, I'm personally not sure that commons would be the best fit for Sanselan. Despite the name, I'd consider the commons of xmlgraphics (despite the name, this is not only about XML) a better place. Nevertheless, I'd vote in favour of Sanselan, if it comes to that. On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at

Re: Commons issues WAS RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-15 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Jochen Wiedmann jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com wrote: Commons is working *now*. Just as Jakarta was working once. But Commons will most likely no longer work when it is growing too much

Re: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-14 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: Some projects are just too small to warrant the target of a TLP or even a sub project We agree!  We have several projects here that I believe belong in Commons! May be. But please consider the following: - Commons

Re: Commons issues WAS RE: [PROPOSAL] Commons Incubator

2009-04-14 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: There seems to be some concern in Commons that committers are a threat to the existing codebase. I know the concerns you mention and felt them very much in the discussion about JSch. But, at least for me personally, I

Announce: Apache RAT Incubating 0.6

2009-04-10 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
The Apache RAT team is proud to announce the availability of Apache RAT 0.6. RAT (Release Audit Tool) is a tool, which is designed to verify the compliance with legal policies. A typical use case would be the presence of license headers in ASF projects. RAT was initially developed as a Google

[RESULT] apache-rat-project 0.6rc3

2009-04-04 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Passed with three binding +1 (Robert, Stefan, Kevan) , and two non-binding (Sebb and myself). No other votes have been issued. I'll publish the release and post a formal announcement. Jochen -- I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true

Re: [VOTE] apache-rat-project 0.6rc3

2009-04-03 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Thilo Goetz twgo...@gmx.de wrote: A list of people on the Incubator PMC is here: http://incubator.apache.org/whoweare.html Ok, thanks for the hint. That settles it: - We have three binding +1 votes: Robert, Stefan, Kevan - We also have two non-binding +1 votes:

Re: [VOTE] apache-rat-project 0.6rc3

2009-04-02 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Jochen Wiedmann jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: where are we

Re: [VOTE] apache-rat-project 0.6rc3

2009-04-01 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: where are we with this? are we cutting another release candidate or shall i take a look this one? The only problem pointed out so far was the invalid year in the copyright. See

Re: Starting a new incubation

2009-03-19 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Alexander Veit alexander.v...@gmx.net wrote: Sounds like RMI is probably not the best comparison point. How does Jaffre differ from XML-RPC? Are there potential synergies with projects like http://ws.apache.org/xmlrpc/? I'm not familiar with XML-RPC. The

[VOTE] apache-rat-project 0.6rc3

2009-03-19 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Hi, I have prepared a new staging repository, which you can find on https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/rat-51670640d59ff2/ The proposed binary and source files are in the subdirectory org/apache/rat/apache-rat/0.6/ The SVN tag is at

Re: [VOTE] apache-rat-project 0.6rc2

2009-03-18 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: RAT was eating it's own tail so i had to turn that off  :-) Yes, I know, I also tried to enable it without success. :-) We should be enable to use it with a fixed, but released version once 0.6 is out.

Re: [VOTE] apache-rat-project 0.6rc2

2009-03-18 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Hi, Kevan, first of all, thanks for your observations. On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Kevan Miller kevan.mil...@gmail.com wrote: An pointer to the svn location for your proposed release would be helpful. I choose

Re: [VOTE] apache-rat-project 0.6rc2

2009-03-17 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin I have prepared a staging repository for 0.6, which you can view on    https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/rat-4fdaf205188c41/ i'd like to download everything so i can run rat in recursive mode is there an easy way

[VOTE] apache-rat-project 0.6rc2

2009-03-14 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Hi, I have prepared a staging repository for 0.6, which you can view on https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/rat-4fdaf205188c41/ Compared to Roberts previous rc1, I have mainly changed documentation and license issues (seems we never used RAT to check the RAT sources ... ;-)

Re: Subversion vs other source control systems

2008-02-14 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Erik Abele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aye, and this is also the reason why it potentially conflicts with the meritocratic model of the ASF; furthermore there are also legal hurdles to cross etc. In the end I think it's simply too early to discuss all this -

Re: RAT doesn't recognize CHANGES file

2007-11-16 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Nov 16, 2007 2:48 PM, Craig L Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know what configuring an exception means... The Ant and Maven plugins allow to configure files, which are not being inspected by RAT. -- Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break

Re: RAT doesn't recognize CHANGES file

2007-11-16 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Nov 16, 2007 2:36 PM, Craig L Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be reasonable to expect that a file called CHANGES contains implied content? I do not know what you mean by implied, but in the most cases I am aware of, the CHANGES file is typically something on which RAT should not

Re: Discuss: Package Naming for Incubator Release of River

2007-07-22 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On 7/22/07, Niclas Hedhman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last Incubating release - the com.sun.jini classes are the wrappers to the org.apache.river classes. At that point (I don't see a necessity for the previous steps, btw, it only complicates things, IMO) I'd also

Announce: RAT 0.5

2007-05-30 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Hi, for those who are interested: A new version 0.5 of the Release Audit Tool is available from http://code.google.com/p/arat/ Compared to the previous version 0.4.1, the following changes have been made: * Added header matcher for DoJo. * Refactoring existing codebase to separate concerns

Re: Killing the incubator m2 repository

2007-03-16 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On 3/15/07, Carlos Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. central repo must be self contained, all artifacts in central repository must have dependencies already in central, only exception is if license doesn't allow redistribution but in that case the pom must be there explaining what that

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