RE: Mission ...

2002-01-10 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Production quality sounds MUCH better to me! Have fun, Paulo Gaspar Thats good. I like that. -- www.superlinksoftware.com www.sourceforge.net/projects/poi - port of Excel format to java http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4487555.html - fix java

RE: Volunteer Wanted

2002-01-10 Thread GOMEZ Henri
I'm allready involved there, hired by Pier :) PS: Happy New Years to all of you - Henri Gomez ___[_] EMAIL : [EMAIL PROTECTED](. .) PGP KEY : 697ECEDD...oOOo..(_)..oOOo... PGP Fingerprint : 9DF8 1EA8 ED53 2F39 DC9B 904A 364F 80E6

RE: Code conventions

2002-01-10 Thread GOMEZ Henri
LOL! Are you taking these guys seriously? =;o) No, since Jon didn't participate to the thread ;) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: License change for new year ?

2002-01-10 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 1/9/02 9:13 PM, Peter Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:45, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On 1/9/02 8:30 PM, Peter Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:24, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: Here's a quick question - what makes that a rule? Ted putting it into a

Re: More abuse of coding styles...

2002-01-10 Thread Peter Donald
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:07, Daniel Rall wrote: Ceki Glc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: People who repeatedly forget to type this represent a minority and should perhaps look to exercise a different profession. Agreed. I agree - using the compiler to detect errors is such a stupid idea. Real

Re: More abuse of coding styles...

2002-01-10 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 1/10/02 2:54 AM, Peter Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:07, Daniel Rall wrote: Ceki Glc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: People who repeatedly forget to type this represent a minority and should perhaps look to exercise a different profession. Agreed. I agree - using

Re: More abuse of coding styles...

2002-01-10 Thread Peter Donald
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 21:59, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On 1/10/02 2:54 AM, Peter Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:07, Daniel Rall wrote: Ceki Glc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: People who repeatedly forget to type this represent a minority and should perhaps look to

RE: [Request For Comment] POI @ apache

2002-01-10 Thread Danny Angus
Not necessarily true, I've worked on applications where a servers ability to dynamically create M$ documents is a cool feature, imagine a servelet which returned an xls workbook reporting on data from an ODBC datasource (maybe sales figures or contact details), people in M$ centered offices lap

Re: More abuse of coding styles...

2002-01-10 Thread Peter Donald
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 22:16, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On 1/10/02 6:11 AM, Stephane Bailliez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [...] Real programmers don't use compilers... It looks like there were needs for some

release signing policy?

2002-01-10 Thread Conor MacNeill
Hi, Having read all this stuff about what is Jakarta, what is the PMC's role, etc reminded me of something which I think should be addressed at PMC level, if not higher - the policy of signing releases. We have put something in place at a subproject level for Ant but I think an overall

Re: release signing policy?

2002-01-10 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 1/10/02 8:03 AM, Conor MacNeill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Having read all this stuff about what is Jakarta, what is the PMC's role, etc reminded me of something which I think should be addressed at PMC level, if not higher - the policy of signing releases. We have put something in

Re: release signing policy?

2002-01-10 Thread Ted Husted
This has come up before. Would anyone be interesting in reviewing the archives, and summarizing the past threads? At which point, we can come to decision, or validate whatever we decided before, and post it as a FAQ. Here's one for starters, but there's more:

Re: release signing policy?

2002-01-10 Thread Ted Husted
Conor MacNeill wrote: Perhaps it could be part of a committer howto page dealing with how to put together a release. I can take the lead on this part. I have some notes, and if anyone want to send along anything pertinent that they already have, please feel free. -Ted. -- To unsubscribe,

Re: release signing policy?

2002-01-10 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 1/10/02 8:18 AM, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Conor MacNeill wrote: Perhaps it could be part of a committer howto page dealing with how to put together a release. I can take the lead on this part. I have some notes, and if anyone want to send along anything pertinent that they

Re: release signing policy?

2002-01-10 Thread Ted Husted
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On 1/10/02 8:18 AM, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Conor MacNeill wrote: Perhaps it could be part of a committer howto page dealing with how to put together a release. I can take the lead on this part. I have some notes, and if anyone want to send

Re: release signing policy?

2002-01-10 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: then I was volunteering to draft the general Release HOWTO, and asking if anyone had any existing documentation about this that they wanted to share. I'd start with this one http://dev.apache.org/how-to-release.html. Stefan -- To

Re: release signing policy?

2002-01-10 Thread Shane Curcuru
Great! I'll keep an eye out so we can propose stealing what you come up with for xml.apache.org as well... 8-) Suggestions/comments/questions: -- Focus on overall how-to steps for the release process and signing 'public' distribution units; I can volunteer to do QA on any instructions you come

RE: More abuse of coding styles...

2002-01-10 Thread Sam Ruby
Stephane Bailliez wrote: I can understand why: public void setSomething(Object something){ something = something; } Another solution is public void setSomething(Object something) { this.something = something; } - Sam Ruby -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More abuse of coding styles...

2002-01-10 Thread Berin Loritsch
Sam Ruby wrote: Stephane Bailliez wrote: I can understand why: public void setSomething(Object something){ something = something; } Another solution is public void setSomething(Object something) { this.something = something; } Just beware of this bug: public void

RE: More abuse of coding styles...

2002-01-10 Thread Conor MacNeill
From: Berin Loritsch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Just beware of this bug: public void setSomething(Object somthing) { // something misspelled this.something = something; } Don't you use a spell checker on your code? Actually this problem is one reason why it is better to use single

RE: More abuse of coding styles...

2002-01-10 Thread Paulo Gaspar
This thread goes so loong with all of you showing yours that I can't resist showing mine: public void setSomething(Object i_something) { m_something = i_something; } Or even... public void setSomething(Object i_something) { Object something; // a local something

Re: Code conventions

2002-01-10 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/10/02 1:16 AM, GOMEZ Henri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOL! Are you taking these guys seriously? =;o) No, since Jon didn't participate to the thread ;) I heard that if you shorten the names of your variables and methods down to single letters, the execution speed increases by a factor