Rob, you refer to a november board meeting, I'm noticing that there are no minutes for this meeting on http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
I don't see a general apache discussion list, so for the benefit of the community could you try to get those minutes published. Thanks -------- Tim O'Brien Transolutions, Inc. W 847-574-2143 M 847-863-7045 > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Oxspring [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 8:09 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [DRAFT2] Jakarta Newsletter - November 2002 > > > Jakarta Newsletter > ================== > Issue: 5 > Date: November 2002 > Url: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news/200211.html > > It has been a quiet month. Commons has killed on old > component and welcomed a new one, while other components have > kept up fixes, features and releases. Elsewhere there has > been more discussion about the infrastructure and community > at Apache, and an attempt to be helpful to those developers using IDEs > > As always, I want to thank those who contributed and hope > that you enjoy the read. If you would like to comment further > on any of the highlighted discussions then please do so on > the appropriate list, if you want to comment on the > newsletter itself then please point your comments to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Rob Oxspring > > > Contents > -------- > General > Ant > Commons > Jetspeed > Lucene > > > > General > ======= > "Ideas, suggestions, and comments on the overall Jakarta project" > Editor: Rob Oxspring > > Andrew Oliver decided to do something about the Java > developers who "cut their teeth" on IDEs and don't understand > the intricacies of the command line tools that are used under > the hood. The page [1] was welcomed by many and was rapidly > expanded [2] and should hopefully be a resource useful to a > wide range of developers. > > Duplicated or pointless import statements appear over time in > most Java code. This is an issue that Tom Copeland wanted to > tackle, and sparked a few iterations [3] of the "bad imports" > report [4]. > > [1] - > http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=gener > [EMAIL PROTECTED]&from=281536&to=281536&count=39&by=thread&paged=f > alse > [2] - http://jakarta.apache.org/site/idedevelopers.html > [3] - > http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=gener [EMAIL PROTECTED]&by=thread&from=271386 > [4] - http://cvs.apache.org/~tcopeland/jakarta_bad_imports.htm > > > > Ant > === > "Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool" > Editor: Stefan Bodewig > > The biggest news in Ant land is that Ant has been promoted to > a top-level project at the board meeting in November. Much of > the discussion on ant-dev has been centered around the > proposed board resolution, the formation of the initial PMC > and similar issues during the last months. [1,2,3] > > While Ant is leaving the oversight of the Jakarta PMC with > this move, Ant's committers are not necessarily leaving the > Jakarta community, many of us will still be around and > contribute where we see fit. > > After the release of Ant 1.5.1 at the beginning of October, > we've kept on fixing smaller bugs in the 1.5 branch, so a > 1.5.2 release is getting more likely. At the same time, > development in the HEAD branch is picking up momentum again > as we start adding new features and experiment with some stuff [4,5] > > The Ant GUI, Antidote, is being revived and discussions are > getting underway on the Ant-dev mailing list. If anyone wants > to get involved in this project, they are most welcome. > > [1] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103658833500006&r=1&w=2 > [2] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103702213600002&r=1&w=2 > [3] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103778589600002&r=1&w=2 > [4] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103834929300004&r=1&w=2 > [5] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103834425100001&r=1&w=2 > > > > Commons > ======= > "creating and maintaining reusable Java components" > Editor: Henri Yandell > > > Releases > -------- > November saw the release of two new projects from Jakarta > Commons, and the release of a bugfix for another project. > > Commons Validator 1.0 was mentioned in the previous > newsletter. It was released on November 1st and is a > validation framework from the Struts people. > > Commons CLI 1.0 was released on the 6th of November and is an > API for parsing command line arguments. It is the direct > descendant of 3 older argument parsing APIs and other APIs > have affected it over mail list discussions. This gives it a > very high pedigree and makes it a great choice for handling > the command line. > > Commons Lang 1.0.1 is the first bugfix release for the Lang > project. There are no new APIs or deprecated functionality, > so all Commons Lang users are advised to upgrade, although > the bugfixes are not earth-shattering. > > [1] - > http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commo > ns-validator/v1.0/RELEASE-NOTES.txt > [2] - > http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commo > ns-cli/v1.0/RELEASE-NOTES.txt > [3] - > http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commo > ns-lang/v1.0.1/RELEASE-NOTES.txt > > > Gossip > ------ > November was quiet for Commons, as it was for all of Apache. > Indeed, the Commons mail list dropped by 35%. > > The Patterns project in the Sandbox has been mothballed as > its code is to go into Commons Lang and Commons Util. Work > has begun on moving the BeanUtils reflection code over to > Commons Lang and various BeanUtils bugs were dealt with. > > A new database utility project has been proposed with generic > JDBC(tm) utilities and lives under the name of 'DbUtils' in > the sandbox and a project named 'attributes' has been > proposed to handle runtime metadata attributes. > > > [1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/attributes/ > > > Jelly > ----- > Editor: James Strachan > > Here are the main changes that have happened recently on the > Jelly project... > > XPath sorting now added to the XML library > <j:useBean> can now construct beans with constructor > parameters better reporting of JellyUnit failures, line > numbers, expressions etc. XMLUnit library added for unit > testing of XML inside JellyUnit > > So now JellyUnit can support the following XML unit testing constructs > > > XPath based assertions via <test:assert xpath="..."/> > schema validation via the jelly:validate library, testing XML > against DTDs, XML Schema, RelaxNG etc comparing 2 documents > for equality using the new XMLUnit library performing XSLT on > some XML and then then performing any of the above parsing > HTML via the Neko parser and treating it as XML in any of the above > > As well as Jexl based assertions, assertEquals and a new > <assertThrown> tag to test for exceptions being thrown in > Jelly scripts. > > > > Jetspeed > ======== > "an Enterprise Information Portal, using Java and XML" > Editor: David Sean Taylor > > Jetspeed 1.4b2 will be released on December 9. > > > New Features > ------------ > This release is full of new features thanks in great part to > a very welcome new committer, Mark Orciuch. Here is a list of > new features implemented by Mark: > > > Parameter Presentation Styles - Data Entry Widgets including > Date/Calendar, ListBox, CheckBoxGroup, TextArea, Custom JSP, > Custom Velocity Portlet Preview Mode Portlet Usage Logging > Password Expiration Online Profile Import/Export Print > Friendly Mode Filtering in User Browser and Psml Browser > > > Documentation > ------------- > Jetspeed 1.4b2 introduces a new set of documentation to more > fully cover the changes made to version 1.4. We have added > the following documents: > > > New 100+ page Jestpeed Tutorial > JPortal Application Examples, accompanies the tutorial > Jetspeed Axis Integration Guide > New Registry Documentation > New Layout Documentation > New Client Media Documentation > > > Dependencies > ------------ > We updated as many Jars as we could to the latest versions > without breaking the dependencies. Most importantly, we are > now again in sync with the latest releases of: > > Torque > Turbine > Commons > Hypersonic DB > > > Improved JSP Support > -------------------- > Jetspeed JSP Tag library updated to support > internationalization and Jetspeed Links. JSP templating > engine updated to operate like Velocities, supporting the > same media/language/country fallback algorithm. > > > Client and Media Type Registries > -------------------------------- > Two new registries have been added to better support new > Media Types and Client agents. > > > Jetspeed Security > ----------------- > Further enhancements to security: > > New LDAP Security Implementation from Ender Kilicoglu > Added "owner rule" to only allow access to the owner of a > portal resource Cleaned up security in default site Add > Security to References > > > > Misc > ---- > > Allow Customization of Portlet Control per Portlet > New File Cache utility > CheckStyle added to build > > > > Lucene > ====== > "a high-performance, full-featured text search engine" > Editor: Otis Gospodnetic > > Lucene's scoring implementation was previously tightly > integrated with the rest of the API. Doug Cutting added a > public, extensible scoring API, which allows others to create > their own scoring algorithm and plug it into Lucene: > http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?[EMAIL PROTECTED] pache.org&msgId=532504 A document describing Lucene's index file formats has been added to Lucene's web site: http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/fileformats.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
