Sorry if there are a couple of copies of the draft posted - mail provider has just been having a bit of a hiccup and I'm not sure whats getting through yet.
If you have any comments / corrections / additions for this issue then please send them, I'll wait at least 24 hrs before posting the final copy - but assuming all is well I'll get it out the door within 48. As ever if you want to contribute but don't like the timescale then let me know within it and we'll see what can be done. Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Oxspring [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 16 January 2003 22:40 > To: 'Jakarta General List' > Subject: [DRAFT] Jakarta Newsletter - December 2002 > > > Jakarta Newsletter > ================== > Issue: 6 > Date: December 2002 > Url: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news/200212.html > > As you would expect of the holiday season, not a lot was > happening at Jakarta other than some discussion, and the > usual steady progress in a number of projects. This issue > has been delayed somewhat due to commitments to my real work, > but the next issue will hopefully be a little more feature > rich and prompt as plenty seems to be happening already! > > 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 > Lucene > POI > > > > General > ======= > "Ideas, suggestions, and comments on the overall Jakarta project" > Editor: Rob Oxspring > > "if continuous integration is a good thing on a small > project, why not apply it recursively and include all > dependencies for which access to source is provided" This has > been the reasoning behind Gump [1] and since so many Jakarta > folk agreed [2] it was decided to promote Gump from within > alexandria to be a first class Jakarta subproject. Gump was > promoted out of alexandria to be a jakarta subproject. Gump > had been used to build all the latest versions of the jakarta > code for a long time now, and does a great job of keeping the > developers on their toes and helps maintain a high level of > interoperability between subprojects. > > For those that like Wikis, the turbine team talked us into > starting up our very own. As usual there was plenty of > discussion about the pros and cons, and plenty about the > implementation [3,4] but Andy Oliver decided to get the ball > rolling with a simple system with minimal administration needs [5]. > > Should Apache move into the world of C#? Does the JCP do Java > any favours? These are the general themes of this months big > thread and since both topics repeatedly come up at Jakarta, > it will come as no surprise to learn that opinions are mixed > and conclusions are some time off. Still, its always fun > guessing which way to jump! [6,7] > > [1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/gump/ > [2] - > http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=gener > al@jakarta > .apache.org&by=thread&from=296622 > [3] - > http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=gener > al@jakarta > .apache.org&by=thread&from=294885 > [4] - > http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=gener > al@jakarta > .apache.org&by=thread&from=295289 > [5] - http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi > [6] - > http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=gener > al@jakarta > .apache.org&by=thread&from=287011 > [7] - > http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=gener > al@jakarta > .apache.org&by=thread&from=286144 > > > > Lucene > ====== > "a high-performance, full-featured text search engine" > Editor: Otis Gospodnetic > > Doug Cutting added Snowball Stemmers[1] to Lucene Sandbox > Repository[2]. Snowball[3] is a small string processing > language designed for creating stemming algorithms for use in > Information Retrieval. Snowball Stemmers for Lucene project > provides pre-compiled version of the Snowball stemmers > together with classes integrating them with the Lucene search engine. > > Previously Lucene supported only English, German, and > Russian. Lucene users can now make use of the code provided > by this new project and gain support for the following languages: > > Danish > Dutch > English > Finnish > French > German > Italian > Norwegian > Portuguese > Russian > Spanish > Swedish > > [1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/lucene-sandbox/snowball/ > [2] - http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/lucene-sandbox/ > [3] - http://snowball.tartarus.org/ > > > > POI > === > "APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon > Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format" > Editor: Glen Stampoultzis > > Patch for custom palettes received. [1] > Andy created a patch for a proposed refactoring of the > EventRecordFactory. [2]. > Ken was rather busy converting Poi to the latest and greatest > Centipede. > > release and making it all run under gump. [3] > Some idea's on refactoring the formula parser were discussed. [4] > Ken let us in on the correct way to do releases. [5] > Patch for recalc record comitted [6] > Support for horizontal centering during print [7] > Add support for setting the active cell in a worksheet > through usermodel [8] > > [1] - http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15743 > [2] - http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15660 > [3] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=poi-dev&m=104065623 922418&w=2 > [4] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103973441900001&r=1&w =2 > [5] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=poi-dev&m=103911596 709970&w=2 > [6] - http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13500 > [7] - http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15677 > [8] - http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15537 > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:general-> [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]>
