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April 15, 2001: Jakarta-commons Summary digest
Summarizing list traffic from Apr 8 through Apr 14.
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Topics general to Jakarta-commons:
[Voting procedure]
- Still some confusion whether anything has actually been approved
- According to charter, requires 8 votes of +1 for approval
- Perhaps a quorum model?
[Proposed Charter Amendment]
- Clarifies the voting rules for sub-project approval
[Mailing lists]
- No user-lists eg: commons-cactus-user
- Could make alias to format all subject lines with [Cactus]
- Could make separate list
[Build files, process, etc.]
- Huge thread, lots of back and forth, unclear concensus
- Perhaps better served by splitting into modular
mini-proposals and put to vote.
Some of the issues:
- Naming the build script file
- Naming the build properties file
- Naming the output directory
- Organizing the source tree
[Documentation]
- Much going back and forth with Anakia, Stylebook, and DocBook
- Concensus seems to be using DocBook format for writing the docs
and choose your own adventure for rendering
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New proposals:
[Properties file parser] (from Velocity)
Library Summary:
- For runtime configuration
Discussion:
- Perhaps called ExtendedProperties
- From JServ/Turbine/Velocity
- Part of collections?
- Checked into the sandbox
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New submissions to the sandbox (without proposal):
[Threading] (From "Craig's attic")
Library Summary:
- To assist building multi-threaded applications
- Foci on message passing and thread synchronization
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Progress and other threads
[Cactus]
Progress:
- Cactus page up on commons website and migrated from SourceForge
- Announcement on Jakarta news page
- Announcement to Jakarta announcements mailing list
- Patches to build process
- Documentation changes
Discussion:
- How to create a Jyve FAQ
- Jyve should just contain "best of" FAQs
- How to consolidate the initialization of JDBC connections
- Whether to grow into functional test framework
[DBCP]
Progress:
- Moved from sandbox to commons-proper
- New constructors proposed
Discussion:
- How best to do clean shutdown and DB recovery
- Reset all members of a connection pool without destroying pool?
[Collections]
Progress:
- Moved from sandbox to commons-proper
Discussion:
- Include "ExtendedProperties" from Velocity?
[Pool]
Progress:
- Moved from sandbox to commons-proper
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