Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-19 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 3/18/06, Geir Magnusson Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Hogstrom wrote: The conversation on OpenJPA has been quiet for about a week so I was wondering if there are outstanding issues that need to be resolved or this could be moved to a vote to accept the project and what the next

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-18 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
) and Eddie O'Neil (ekoneil at apache dot org) Project Proposal Open JPA will be an ASL-licensed implementation of the Java Persistence API (JPA) which is defined as part of JSR-220. Rationale = We think that Open JPA is something that will benefit from wide collaboration

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-11 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Saturday 11 March 2006 03:21, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: Which is a really long-winded way of saying: At graduation, maybe it's worthwhile to see whether the podling committers actually earned any Apache merit. Agree. That would also allow for a lot lower bar at

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-11 Thread Craig L Russell
On Mar 10, 2006, at 8:58 PM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Saturday 11 March 2006 03:21, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: Which is a really long-winded way of saying: At graduation, maybe it's worthwhile to see whether the podling committers actually earned any Apache merit. Agree. That would also

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-10 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel John Debrunner wrote: I've seen this comment a couple of times in the last week or so, but I don't really understand what it's trying to say. What makes an Apache project umbrella-ish? One definition: a top-level project that has no

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-10 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: However, I absolutely don't believe that at graduation we need to closely examine the assets of the project to make some judgment about individuals as committers. O, I don't know. Since commit access in the podling

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-10 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Dudziak wrote: Mhmm, I have one major problem with this (as much as with Cayenne), and this is that IMO we (will) have too much ORM engines in Apache (with JPA and Cayenne it will be 6 or 7 ?) with little to no cooperation (esp. on the code

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-10 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig L Russell wrote: I think we might have a better chance at unifying these disparate code bases if they are all in one place. Whose goal is that? - -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Ken.Coar.Org/ Author, developer,

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-10 Thread Thomas Dudziak
On 3/10/06, Rodent of Unusual Size [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Dudziak wrote: Mhmm, I have one major problem with this (as much as with Cayenne), and this is that IMO we (will) have too much ORM engines in Apache (with JPA and Cayenne it will be 6 or 7 ?) with little to no

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-10 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: However, I absolutely don't believe that at graduation we need to closely examine the assets of the project to make some judgment about individuals as committers. O, I don't know. Since

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-10 Thread Yoav Shapira
Hola, O, I don't know. Since commit access in the podling frequently results in commit access in the TLP, I think it might be reasonable at graduation to take a look at the records of the podling's committers. Commit access in a TLP is earned -- period. Someone who's on a podling's

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-10 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Saturday 11 March 2006 03:21, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: Which is a really long-winded way of saying: At graduation, maybe it's worthwhile to see whether the podling committers actually earned any Apache merit. Agree. That would also allow for a lot lower bar at the start of podlings

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-10 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Saturday 11 March 2006 04:00, Thomas Dudziak wrote: For instance, both Cayenne and OpenJPA wanted to be sponsored by the Incubator PMC and go TLP immediately even though there is already know-how in Apache in this field in the DB project so that at least in my opinion, a sponsoring by the

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-09 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Yoav Shapira wrote: So we agree that we allow the current proposed committer list as-is, but when we look at graduation from the incubator we examine test case and documentation as well as the product source code itself, because by bringing these people in as committers through the incubator,

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-09 Thread Yoav Shapira
Hola, I don't agree with everything you said, but I have faith. So I'm going to let go of this topic for now (as I've said along, I didn't and won't -1 anything at this stage), but I sure will be looking for great test coverage and documentation from OpenJPA ;) Hopefully something we can cite as

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-08 Thread James Strachan
, Brian McAllister, Dain Sundstrum, and David Blevins for helping me put this proposal together. -Patrick snip Patrick Linskey (plinskey at bea dot com) and Eddie O'Neil (ekoneil at apache dot org) Project Proposal Open JPA will be an ASL-licensed implementation of the Java

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-08 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Yoav Shapira wrote: Hola, A couple of questions: :Core Developers: Fourteen of the initial committers are BEA employees. One of those is a committer on the Apache JDO project. We anticipate that five of these fourteen will be involved in the core code development, and the other nine will be

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-08 Thread Jacek Laskowski
2006/3/8, Patrick Linskey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Below is a proposal to incubate an Open JPA project at Apache. I've also posted this at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenJPAProposal. Hi Patrick, May I be included in the initial committers section? I'd love to contribute to this project.

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-08 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 3/8/06, Jacek Laskowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2006/3/8, Patrick Linskey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Below is a proposal to incubate an Open JPA project at Apache. I've also posted this at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenJPAProposal. Hi Patrick, May I be included in the initial

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-08 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 3/8/06, Geir Magnusson Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yoav Shapira wrote: Hola, A couple of questions: :Core Developers: Fourteen of the initial committers are BEA employees. One of those is a committer on the Apache JDO project. We anticipate that five of these fourteen will be

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-08 Thread Daniel John Debrunner
robert burrell donkin wrote: the only caveat being DB is feeling a little bit umbrella-ish these days. I've seen this comment a couple of times in the last week or so, but I don't really understand what it's trying to say. What makes an Apache project umbrella-ish? How does umbrella-ish

RE: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-08 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Patrick Linskey wrote: Would it make sense for this to go in DB or Jakarta, then? Certainly Jakarta's Java-catch-all nature makes it a natural place for Open JPA. DB makes some sense too, given that Open JPA is about talking to databases. Jakarta's java-catch-all nature is a major reason

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-08 Thread Thomas Dudziak
Mhmm, I have one major problem with this (as much as with Cayenne), and this is that IMO we (will) have too much ORM engines in Apache (with JPA and Cayenne it will be 6 or 7 ?) with little to no cooperation (esp. on the code level) between the ones already here. So in short, there is no focus and

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-08 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi Tom, I think we might have a better chance at unifying these disparate code bases if they are all in one place. And I think that DB might be just the place. For the record, the Apache JDO project has no ORM engine. It has the testing infrastructure for ORM and it has the JDO

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-08 Thread Thomas Dudziak
On 3/8/06, Craig L Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we might have a better chance at unifying these disparate code bases if they are all in one place. And I think that DB might be just the place. For the record, the Apache JDO project has no ORM engine. It has the testing

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-08 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
Thomas Dudziak wrote: Mhmm, I have one major problem with this (as much as with Cayenne), and this is that IMO we (will) have too much ORM engines in Apache (with JPA and Cayenne it will be 6 or 7 ?) with little to no cooperation (esp. on the code level) between the ones already here. So in

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-08 Thread Thomas Dudziak
On 3/8/06, Alan D. Cabrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is duplication really that bad? So long as the communities are vibrant, why should we care? Also, have you factored in different requirements and different implementation strategies for the projects in your list of duplications? I've

RE: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-08 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Thomas Dudziak wrote: I have one major problem with this (as much as with Cayenne), and this is that IMO we (will) have too much ORM engines in Apache Not necesarily a bad thing. [...] with little to no cooperation (esp. on the code level) between the ones already here. The solution is

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-08 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi Yoav, On Mar 7, 2006, at 5:50 PM, Yoav Shapira wrote: :Core Developers: Fourteen of the initial committers are BEA employees. One of those is a committer on the Apache JDO project. We anticipate that five of these fourteen will be involved in the core code development, and the other nine

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-08 Thread Yoav Shapira
Hola, I like having QA and docs as committers on projects. QA should be putting test cases into the code base Yes, but and the only alternative is to have a separate project for QA. No. They can submit test cases via JIRA. Similarly, docs are a very important part of a project and having

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-08 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 3/8/06, Yoav Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both QA and docs as proposed committers means to me that this project already has mature processes in place that will be good for the community. You're more trusting than I am. I still feel like commit access is something to be earned,

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-08 Thread Yoav Shapira
Hola, it's easy to get good open source coders: it's much harder to find good documentors who are willing to contribute to open source projects. demand for good documentation is always high but supply is typically low. i'm willing to cut good documentors much more slack than coders.

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-08 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 3/8/06, Thomas Dudziak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/8/06, Alan D. Cabrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is duplication really that bad? So long as the communities are vibrant, why should we care? Also, have you factored in different requirements and different implementation strategies for

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-08 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 3/8/06, Yoav Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola, it's easy to get good open source coders: it's much harder to find good documentors who are willing to contribute to open source projects. demand for good documentation is always high but supply is typically low. i'm willing to cut

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-08 Thread Yoav Shapira
Hola, I also suppose we can always review the status of documentation and test cases at the end of incubation, see who did what, and accordingly adjust the commiter list during incubator graduation? isn't this really an issue about the bootstrapping committer lists? Yes. The thing that

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-08 Thread Brett Porter
On 3/9/06, Yoav Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's easy to get good open source coders: it's much harder to find good documentors who are willing to contribute to open source projects. demand for good documentation is always high but supply is typically low. ++1. We need to be much

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-08 Thread Thomas Dudziak
On 3/8/06, Noel J. Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Dudziak wrote: I have one major problem with this (as much as with Cayenne), and this is that IMO we (will) have too much ORM engines in Apache Not necesarily a bad thing. Sure. Perhaps I'm being a bit too anti-sourceforgish

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-08 Thread Bill Dudney
Hi Guys, Isn't the whole point of incubation community? We want the community and we want to grow it while in incubation. Good doc and QA people will go just as far as good coders in building a user community (perhaps even further) while making it possible for the coders to build more

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-08 Thread Yoav Shapira
Hola, Brett said: Of course, they still have to earn their stripes in the same way - consistent contribution that shows they care about the project. If Joe Q. Random emailed us saying he thinks [some currently in incubation project] is great and he's a technical writer and would like

Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-08 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Thursday 09 March 2006 06:02, robert burrell donkin wrote: the current favourite candidate is a more federationish structure with more limited legal duties. yes, flatten the legal aspects, and allow for orthogonal cross-pollination. IOW, not partOf but associatedWith, where the association

[PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-07 Thread Patrick Linskey
snip Patrick Linskey (plinskey at bea dot com) and Eddie O'Neil (ekoneil at apache dot org) Project Proposal Open JPA will be an ASL-licensed implementation of the Java Persistence API (JPA) which is defined as part of JSR-220. Rationale = We think that Open JPA

RE: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA

2006-03-07 Thread Patrick Linskey
See comments inline. :Core Developers: Fourteen of the initial committers are BEA employees. One of those is a committer on the Apache JDO project. We anticipate that five of these fourteen will be involved in the core code development, and the other nine will be involved in