On 07/04/2010, at 15:37, Chapuis Bertil wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> Is there still interest for a community day? Personally, I am using droids in 
> two projects to acquire data over the web so I 'd love to see the framework 
> evolving.
> 
> I tried to implement [1] some of the changes proposed on Jira and made some 
> refactoring. It's still buggy but I hope some of these changes may be 
> returned to the community.
> 
> The major changes are the following:
>       - Droids 56: java.util.Queue is used instead of TaskQueue.
>       - Replaced all the factories with a single WorkerFactory. It helps 
> solving the concurrency problems.
>       - Handler implementation that uses cocoon.
>       - A JMS implementation of the queue (early prototype :-)
> 
> As I told before some of the changes have been made as experiments as well as 
> the API modifications. I'm still using the last droids release for my 
> projects and I just hope this may help thinking about the future.
> 

Perfect. That looks really nice. :)

Let do us the day this month.

Javier and I working in the same office now and we can dedicate some working 
time for the day as well. Our company will sponsor the event with our time. :)

Quick poll how is the 30.04.2010?

salu2


> Kind regards,
> 
> Bertil Chapuis
> 
> [1] - https://agimem.homelinux.com/svn/droids/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 23, 2010, at 5:41 AM, Richard Frovarp wrote:
> 
>> On 2/22/2010 4:42 AM, Thorsten Scherler wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> to summaries: there is interest to have a community day, that is awesome
>>> news. :)
>>> 
>>> Now since we are truly an apache project, we are actually covering
>>> nearly all timezones. Meaning to have a specific time that is best for
>>> everyone will be hard to archive. You can consult the corresponding time
>>> in [1] and we use UTC as default.
>>> 
>>> Richard said till 8th of march he can join from 1400 UTC, however Ryan
>>> cannot make time after until 15th march. Mingfai and Chapuis did not
>>> have any restrictions. Javier did not replied here but demonstrated
>>> interest when I talked with him the other day (he works with me).
>>> 
>>> I will try to fit it in as it comes, best would be a weekend to give
>>> everyone the chance to communicate and interact over the different
>>> timezones with each other.
>>> 
>>> I see different todos on this hackathon:
>>> - review and apply current patches
>>> - tag a release and prepare the release steps
>>> - in-cooperate Mingfais ideas in our design
>>> - start on leaving the incubator
>>> 
>>> About the order I am not sure, but I think it makes sense to get a
>>> release before we implement Mingfais concept. Further we should try to
>>> leave the incubator since actually seeing this outcome for participation
>>> demonstrate that we have grown a community (half a dozen) and our IP
>>> clearance process should be nearly non existing.
>>> 
>>> wdyt?
>>> 
>>> [1] http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/
>>> 
>> 
>> I head off to Amman in two weeks (8th) and will be there until the 22nd, 
>> when I get back to the states. Weekends do work, just not the two I'm gone, 
>> and I can change my time some to accommodate other people in the world.
>> 
>> Given the number of patches I have out there, I'm obviously going to be a 
>> fan of reviewing those. I did see some of Mingfais' Jira issues, any in 
>> particular you're talking about? I think a release would be a great idea. 
>> What needs to be done for IP clearance?
>> 
>> Richard
>> 
> 

Thorsten Scherler <thorsten.at.apache.org>
Open Source Java <consulting, training and solutions>

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