Re: Binary Release / DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-25 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
On 24 Nov 2003, at 17:20, Oliver Zeigermann wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: On 24 Nov 2003, at 08:59, Oliver Zeigermann wrote: I have a distribution of jetty+slide that is around 2Mb. It's bare minimal, but very fast (boots in two seconds on my machine), but doesn't contain any of the slide

Re: Binary Release / DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-25 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: On 24 Nov 2003, at 17:20, Oliver Zeigermann wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: On 24 Nov 2003, at 08:59, Oliver Zeigermann wrote: I have a distribution of jetty+slide that is around 2Mb. It's bare minimal, but very fast (boots in two seconds on my machine), but doesn't

Re: Binary Release / DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-24 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: On 23 Nov 2003, at 14:45, Oliver Zeigermann wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: On 18 Nov 2003, at 02:57, Oliver Zeigermann wrote: Summing up content from other threads: Main question: What should a binary Slide release look like? I understand people want something to

Re: Binary Release / DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-24 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
On 24 Nov 2003, at 08:59, Oliver Zeigermann wrote: I have a distribution of jetty+slide that is around 2Mb. It's bare minimal, but very fast (boots in two seconds on my machine), but doesn't contain any of the slide admin features (they could work, but I'm not interested in web-based

Re: Binary Release / DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-24 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: On 24 Nov 2003, at 08:59, Oliver Zeigermann wrote: I have a distribution of jetty+slide that is around 2Mb. It's bare minimal, but very fast (boots in two seconds on my machine), but doesn't contain any of the slide admin features (they could work, but I'm not

Re: Code responsibilities / DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-23 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
On 19 Nov 2003, at 04:20, Christopher Lenz wrote: Oliver Zeigermann wrote: Christopher Lenz wrote: In every project there are areas of the code that some committers know better than others, but that is not the same as responsibility or ownership. If a committer that is working mostly on the

Re: Code responsibilities / DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-23 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
On 19 Nov 2003, at 03:43, Christopher Lenz wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: My personal experience shows that pointing reponsibilities creates community fragmentation. All the committers are responsible for all the code: if we start asking permissions to one another to modify code in the area

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-23 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
On 19 Nov 2003, at 02:36, Christopher Lenz wrote: Oliver Zeigermann wrote: Martin Holz wrote: robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i agree with stefano's observation that whiteboard and scratchpad are the more usual names for this kind of thing. aligning naming conventions isn't

Re: Binary Release / DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-23 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
On 18 Nov 2003, at 02:57, Oliver Zeigermann wrote: Summing up content from other threads: Main question: What should a binary Slide release look like? I understand people want something to download and go. Store issue can be solved without an RDBMS by using tx file store. Prolem is Slide is

Re: Binary Release / DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-23 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: On 18 Nov 2003, at 02:57, Oliver Zeigermann wrote: Summing up content from other threads: Main question: What should a binary Slide release look like? I understand people want something to download and go. Store issue can be solved without an RDBMS by using tx file

Re: Binary Release / DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-23 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
On 23 Nov 2003, at 14:45, Oliver Zeigermann wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: On 18 Nov 2003, at 02:57, Oliver Zeigermann wrote: Summing up content from other threads: Main question: What should a binary Slide release look like? I understand people want something to download and go. Store issue

Re: JDK support / DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-20 Thread Christopher Lenz
Martin Holz wrote: Richard Unger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Strong voice for 1.4 recommended, 1.3 compatibilty. 1.4 would be fine for me. But since there is currently no feature, that really requires 1.4., compability with 1.3 should be kept. Specialized stores could still use java 1.4, for

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-19 Thread Martin Holz
robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i agree with stefano's observation that whiteboard and scratchpad are the more usual names for this kind of thing. aligning naming conventions isn't critical but it can help to make newbies feel at home quicker. Cocoon uses deprecated for old

Re: Code responsibilities / DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-19 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
Eric Johnson wrote: Oliver Zeigermann wrote: I really wonder if we have a misunderstanding here. Perhaps so. From the perspective of a non-committer, and rare contributor (with an ongoing consideration of adopting Slide), I would emphasize that the project is *open source*. Since people are

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-19 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
Martin Holz wrote: robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i agree with stefano's observation that whiteboard and scratchpad are the more usual names for this kind of thing. aligning naming conventions isn't critical but it can help to make newbies feel at home quicker. Cocoon uses

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-19 Thread Martin Dulisch
Oliver Zeigermann wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: ... About this, I thought that Attic, as a name, is a bad idea because that conflicts with the CVS attic directory. I would suggest to rename it to scratchpad or whiteboard as it's done in many other ASF projects. In what respect does it

Re: Code responsibilities / DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-19 Thread Martin Dulisch
I do not think that a official assignment is needed. Responsibilities will evolve or are allready there (implicit). Other os projects work as Oliver describes. But without assignment. Martin Oliver Zeigermann wrote: I really wonder if we have a misunderstanding here. Let's consider an

Re: Code responsibilities / DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-19 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
Martin Dulisch wrote: I do not think that a official assignment is needed. Responsibilities will evolve or are allready there (implicit). Other os projects work as Oliver describes. But without assignment. Agreed. This is *not* official, but rather for *orientation* of all :) Oliver Martin

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-19 Thread Daniel Florey
Am Mittwoch, 19. November 2003 09:23 schrieb Martin Dulisch: Oliver Zeigermann wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: ... About this, I thought that Attic, as a name, is a bad idea because that conflicts with the CVS attic directory. I would suggest to rename it to scratchpad or whiteboard

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-19 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
Christopher Lenz wrote: Oliver Zeigermann wrote: Martin Holz wrote: robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i agree with stefano's observation that whiteboard and scratchpad are the more usual names for this kind of thing. aligning naming conventions isn't critical but it can help to

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-18 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
As it seems to be clear by now there will be a 2.0 release. This includes there will be milestone releases before the final one which will be available as binaries *in pricipal*. The problem for me is what a Slide binary release may look like... I have seen the 1.0.x binary comes as a Tomcat

Code responsibilities / DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-18 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
For the release and also for the people contributing questions or patches there should be someone to address directly for each part of the code. At least for the stores, the client, the webdav layer and of course the kernel there must be at least one committer in charge. Responsibilities I

JDK support / DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-18 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
What JDK should be supported in the 2.0 relase? My proposal: JDK1.3 required, JDK1.4 recommended as JDK1.2 or less are hardly used in serious server applications, am I wrong? Anyway if JDK1.2 is aimed to I would need to make slight modifications of my tx file store, but it should be possible.

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-18 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: I think we need a little plan of action. (of course, since I'm not an active committer, I don't get to vote, but at least I'll share some of my experience in these things). new generation number - From a user perspective, Slide appeared dead for too

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-18 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
Hi Robert, hi all, I have a hard time figuring out how to update the docs. While I seem to have found out how to actually deploy modified pages on the web server I suspect, those pages in the Slide pages are not native HTML, but generated from the real source. I really tried to find out on

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-18 Thread Christopher Lenz
Hi Oliver, the actual source for the docs are in [src/doc], and are XSL-transformed by the Ant doc target into the [docs] directory. IIRC, the whole process is: - modify the documents in [src/doc] - make the transformation using ant doc - commit the changes in the [docs] directory - login

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-18 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
Chritopher, thanks a lot! That's what I was looking for! Oliver Christopher Lenz wrote: Hi Oliver, the actual source for the docs are in [src/doc], and are XSL-transformed by the Ant doc target into the [docs] directory. IIRC, the whole process is: - modify the documents in [src/doc] -

Binary Release / DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-18 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
Summing up content from other threads: Main question: What should a binary Slide release look like? I understand people want something to download and go. Store issue can be solved without an RDBMS by using tx file store. Prolem is Slide is not standalone and can only be used with a web

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-18 Thread Daniel Florey
[snip...] My favorit issues are: - Getting the stores to work as expected (at least file/db-stores) this is critical, yes. - Implement internal locking (should not be transactional) can you tell us more about this? I think we need two different types of locks in slide: First there are

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-18 Thread Richard Unger
Hi! Lets move the stuff from src/contrib/webdavui into the Attic, since it does not build with current commons-httpclient, and no active part of slide requires it. I am not a committer, so I cannot move anything... Richie Quoting Oliver Zeigermann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Stefano Mazzocchi

Re: JDK support / DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-18 Thread Richard Unger
Hi! Strong voice for 1.4 recommended, 1.3 compatibilty. I feel confident 1.2 can be dropped, I don't know of any important production systems that don't have at least a 1.3 runtime. What Servlet Spec level do we require? 2.2? 2.3? I would vote for 2.3, but this does exclude weblogic6 and

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release - Binary Packages to Produce

2003-11-18 Thread Richard Unger
As it seems to be clear by now there will be a 2.0 release. This includes there will be milestone releases before the final one which will be available as binaries *in pricipal*. Shall we set a date? Mid January - Release Candidate 1? The problem for me is what a Slide binary release may

Re: JDK support / DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-18 Thread Martin Holz
Richard Unger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Strong voice for 1.4 recommended, 1.3 compatibilty. 1.4 would be fine for me. But since there is currently no feature, that really requires 1.4., compability with 1.3 should be kept. Specialized stores could still use java 1.4, for example to see, if

Re: JDK support / DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-18 Thread Richard Unger
Hi! I need filters for my stuff too, but slide doesn't so I suppose we could reach Servlet 2.2 compatibility. I just don't like Servlet 2.2, having lots of problems with weblogic6 at work at the moment... Richie On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 15:37, Martin Holz wrote: Richard Unger [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: JDK support / DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-18 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
On 18 Nov 2003, at 01:41, Oliver Zeigermann wrote: What JDK should be supported in the 2.0 relase? My proposal: JDK1.3 required, JDK1.4 recommended +1 -- Stefano. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Code responsibilities / DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-18 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
My personal experience shows that pointing reponsibilities creates community fragmentation. All the committers are responsible for all the code: if we start asking permissions to one another to modify code in the area where others people is responsible, the development performance drops.

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-18 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
On 18 Nov 2003, at 01:56, Oliver Zeigermann wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: bad marketing - I believe Slide has currently a major bug in its own self-marketing: no matter how you look at it, Slide is *NOT* a content management system. Probably Remy (or Yassaf/Keith/Ismael don't

Re: Code responsibilities / DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-18 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
Hmmm. I thought it might be impolite to mess around in other peoples code... But if this is what people want, it is ok with me... Is this what people want? Opinions, please! Oliver Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: My personal experience shows that pointing reponsibilities creates community

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-18 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: On 18 Nov 2003, at 01:56, Oliver Zeigermann wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: bad marketing - I believe Slide has currently a major bug in its own self-marketing: no matter how you look at it, Slide is *NOT* a content management system. Probably Remy (or

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-18 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 18 Nov 2003, at 19:01, Oliver Zeigermann wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: On 18 Nov 2003, at 01:56, Oliver Zeigermann wrote: snip I have set up an attic section where dead code can be moved to (and of course moved back if it comes to life again for whatever reason). Currently, it is empty...

Re: Code responsibilities / DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-18 Thread robert burrell donkin
+1 one4all + all4one :) IMHO it's healthier to discuss any changes that you feel might step on others toes or that are controversial on the list before you make them. this gives not only the other committers a chance to join in but also the development community hanging around on the list. -

Re: Code responsibilities / DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-18 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
I really wonder if we have a misunderstanding here. Let's consider an example: I certainly have no real idea of the guts of Peter's code and he hardly has of mine. That's fine as we both have our stuff to concentrate on. Now, when there is a bug in Peter's code I turn to Peter and ask him to

Re: Code responsibilities / DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-18 Thread Eric Johnson
Oliver Zeigermann wrote: I really wonder if we have a misunderstanding here. Perhaps so. From the perspective of a non-committer, and rare contributor (with an ongoing consideration of adopting Slide), I would emphasize that the project is *open source*. Since people are not getting paid to

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-17 Thread Daniel Florey
A CMS includes things like content authoring, content auditing, workflow management, presentation logic, *and* content repositories. The repository is only a (critical! important! vital!) piece of the CMS puzzle, but it's foolish to consider a content repository enough to implement a

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-17 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Daniel Florey wrote: It's nice to have you around on this list Stefano, you're able to point out things very clearly. Thanks. I'm propagating the idea of moving from a CMS to something like a CMF in our company for quite a while. But I think that Slide should be more than just a content

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-16 Thread Richard Unger
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 01:05, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: On 15 Nov 2003, at 00:47, Oliver Zeigermann wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: I think users should be able to do cvs co jakarta-slide ant ./slide and get it running. The required (non-optional) jars should be included in the

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-16 Thread Richard Unger
Well, the CVS Head should have at least integration quality, if not production, IMHO. How is anyone supposed to get things running if it the HEAD represents some undeterminate development state? Whether the build/run should be as simple as stefano describes is another question... Richie On

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-15 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: On 15 Nov 2003, at 00:47, Oliver Zeigermann wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: I think users should be able to do cvs co jakarta-slide ant ./slide and get it running. The required (non-optional) jars should be included in the download or fetched by the build script

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-15 Thread Mike Oliver
Stefano hit the nail on the head with Look around. I believe that there are at least three requirements for the Slide 2.0 release and other enhancements that will make Slide much more attractive and therefore attract many more talented people to contribute which is what we all want to see.

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-15 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
Mike Oliver wrote: #1 I believe it is less than desireable to require jars to be moved out of the webapp and into Tomcat's commons for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is the compatibility of other webapps and classpath problems (with other webapps on that same Tomcat) you introduce by

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-14 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
OK. Will do so! Thanks Robert, I need you all the help I can get :) Oliver robert burrell donkin wrote: the dev list is usually considered the right place for discussions about releases. certainly, all VOTEs must take place on the dev list. any release will mean several VOTEs usually

DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-14 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
[COPIED FROM USERS LIST, THIS IS HERE IN THE DEV LIST IS THE RIGHT POST TO FOLLOW UP] Hi everyone! I understand those votes from active committers which are +1 from Martin +1 from Ingo +1 from Peter mean: 1. We actually should start a release process now 2. I should be the release manager If

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-14 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
On 13 Nov 2003, at 21:52, robert burrell donkin wrote: the dev list is usually considered the right place for discussions about releases. certainly, all VOTEs must take place on the dev list. any release will mean several VOTEs usually starting with a release plan and the election (often by

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-14 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
On 14 Nov 2003, at 08:23, Oliver Zeigermann wrote: [COPIED FROM USERS LIST, THIS IS HERE IN THE DEV LIST IS THE RIGHT POST TO FOLLOW UP] Hi everyone! Hi! I understand those votes from active committers which are +1 from Martin +1 from Ingo +1 from Peter mean: 1. We actually should start a

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-14 Thread Martin Dulisch
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: ... 1) clear separation of the server part from the client part. When you download the slide CVS, you get server and client at the same time, with the same build, docs and all that. I think we should clearly separate those things out. Potentially, in the future,

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-14 Thread Daniel Florey
Hi, as slide seems to gain more and more interest over the last weeks I'd like to add some comments to this issue. Our company has implemented a full featured CMS in the past few years that works with a self implemented content repository. Beside the repository we implemented a presentation

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-14 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
On 14 Nov 2003, at 17:07, Daniel Florey wrote: Hi, as slide seems to gain more and more interest over the last weeks I'd like to add some comments to this issue. appreciated. Our company has implemented a full featured CMS in the past few years that works with a self implemented content

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-14 Thread Eric Johnson
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: [snip] 1) clear separation of the server part from the client part. When you download the slide CVS, you get server and client at the same time, with the same build, docs and all that. I think we should clearly separate those things out. Potentially, in the future,

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-14 Thread Remy Maucherat
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: On 14 Nov 2003, at 08:23, Oliver Zeigermann wrote: [COPIED FROM USERS LIST, THIS IS HERE IN THE DEV LIST IS THE RIGHT POST TO FOLLOW UP] Hi everyone! Hi! I understand those votes from active committers which are +1 from Martin +1 from Ingo +1 from Peter mean: 1. We

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-14 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
On 14 Nov 2003, at 18:41, Remy Maucherat wrote: \bad marketing - I believe Slide has currently a major bug in its own self-marketing: no matter how you look at it, Slide is *NOT* a content management system. Probably Remy (or Yassaf/Keith/Ismael don't know who came up with this)

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-14 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: I think users should be able to do cvs co jakarta-slide ant ./slide and get it running. The required (non-optional) jars should be included in the download or fetched by the build script from jar repositories (the only problem seems to be JTA which is under the Sun

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-14 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
On 15 Nov 2003, at 00:47, Oliver Zeigermann wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: I think users should be able to do cvs co jakarta-slide ant ./slide and get it running. The required (non-optional) jars should be included in the download or fetched by the build script from jar repositories (the

DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-13 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
For everyone subscribed to the dev list only: Discussion about the new release has been started in the user list. Please keep the discussion in that list. Oliver - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: DISCUSSION: Slide 2.0 release

2003-11-13 Thread robert burrell donkin
the dev list is usually considered the right place for discussions about releases. certainly, all VOTEs must take place on the dev list. any release will mean several VOTEs usually starting with a release plan and the election (often by lazy acclamation) of the release manager. so, it's