Re: [VOTE] Accept Zeta Components into the incubator

[Niclas Hedhman]

+1

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Tobias Schlitt  wrote:
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> Please vote on the acceptance of Zeta Components for incubation at the
> Apache Incubator. The full proposal is available at the end of this
> message and on the wiki at
>
>        http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ZetaComponentsProposal
>
> We ask the Incubator PMC to sponsor the project with Erik Abele as the
> Champion and Craig L. Russel, Julien Vermillard and Christian Grobmeier
> volunteering to be mentors. Note that the acceptance of Julien and
> Christian for the IPMC is currently pending.
>
> Please cast your votes:
>
> [ ] +1, bring Zeta into Incubator
> [ ] +0, I don't care either way
> [ ] -1, do not bring Zeta into Incubator, because...
>
> The vote is open for the next 72 hours and only votes from the Incubator
> PMC are binding.
>
> ~
> Proposal: Zeta Components
> ~
>
> Zeta Components is a high-quality library of loosely-coupled PHP components.
>
> - --
> Status
> - --
>
> The proposal has been discussed on the incubator mailinglist. 3 mentors
> have volunteered, the confirmation of Julien Vermillard and Christian
> Grobmeier for the IPMC is pending.
>
> - 
> Proposal
> - 
>
> Originally developed as an open source project named eZ Components [1]
> by eZ Systems AS [2] under New BSD license. eZ Systems has agreed to
> relicense the source code and documentation, under the name Zeta
> Components, and donate it to the Apache Software Foundation.
>
> The goal of the project is to provide high-quality, loosely-coupled
> components for the development of applications based on PHP version 5.1
> and above. Zeta contains standard PHP framework components (e.g.
> database abstraction, templating, email, image manipulation); and
> modules which are unique in the PHP world, like a document format
> conversion component, a WebDAV server module and a workflow based
> programming framework.
>
> The project is developed with a strong focus on code and documentation
> quality, and backwards compatibility. It follows a well-defined
> development process with extensive architecture and design discussions,
> and prescribes a test-driven development approach.
>
> - --
> Background
> - --
>
> PHP is the most common language for developing web applications, but is
> also in use in other areas. While the language itself already ships with
> many libraries to solve different tasks, there is still a need for user
> land libraries to provide more complex repetitive functionality.
>
> Zeta provides components dedicated to such functionality. An example for
> a tasks that can be solved using Zeta are processing and sending of
> email. This is already possible from within pure PHP. But working with
> multi-part MIME emails is not easily possible and a real pain when doing
> that on your own. For that reason, a module exists in Zeta which allows
> the developer to easily create and send such emails and to receive and
> process them.
>
> The Zeta project currently consists of the following components:
>
>  * Archive
>  * Authentication
>  * AuthenticationDatabaseTiein
>  * Base
>  * Cache
>  * Configuration
>  * ConsoleTools
>  * Database
>  * DatabaseSchema
>  * Debug
>  * Document
>  * EventLog
>  * EventLogDatabaseTiein
>  * Execution
>  * Feed
>  * File
>  * Framework
>  * Graph
>  * GraphDatabaseTiein
>  * ImageAnalysis
>  * ImageConversion
>  * Mail
>  * MvcAuthenticationTiein
>  * MvcFeedTiein
>  * MvcMailTiein
>  * MvcTemplateTiein
>  * MvcTools
>  * PersistentObject
>  * PersistentObjectDatabaseSchemaTiein
>  * PhpGenerator
>  * Search
>  * SignalSlot
>  * SystemInformation
>  * Template
>  * TemplateTranslationTiein
>  * Translation
>  * TranslationCacheTiein
>  * Tree
>  * TreeDatabaseTiein
>  * TreePersistentObjectTiein
>  * Url
>  * UserInput
>  * Webdav
>  * Workflow
>  * WorkflowDatabaseTiein
>  * WorkflowEventLogTiein
>  * WorkflowSignalSlotTiein
>
> As can be seen, there are typical web-application modules included, such
> as the Feed component - which allows users to generate and consume
> different types of aggregation feeds -, the already mentioned Mail
> component, a template component for website templates and a WebDAV
> server component. Beside that, the library also contains many modules
> which are not only suitable for web applications, like a component for
> managing various archive file formats, multiple layers of database
> abstraction, tools for image manipulation, basic interfaces and
> implementations of a model-view-controller structure and more.
>
> In contrast to other frameworks, the components in Zeta are loosely
> coupled and there are almost no hard inter-dependencies between them.
> Instead, if a component can be integrated with another one, a so-called
> Tiein component is provided, supplying the classes necessary to couple
> the components. This allows users to cherry pick the compo

Re: [VOTE] Accept Zeta Components into the incubator

[Christian Grobmeier]

+1 (binding) :-)

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Tobias Schlitt  wrote:
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>
> Please vote on the acceptance of Zeta Components for incubation at the
> Apache Incubator. The full proposal is available at the end of this
> message and on the wiki at
>
>        http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ZetaComponentsProposal
>
> We ask the Incubator PMC to sponsor the project with Erik Abele as the
> Champion and Craig L. Russel, Julien Vermillard and Christian Grobmeier
> volunteering to be mentors. Note that the acceptance of Julien and
> Christian for the IPMC is currently pending.
>
> Please cast your votes:
>
> [ ] +1, bring Zeta into Incubator
> [ ] +0, I don't care either way
> [ ] -1, do not bring Zeta into Incubator, because...
>
> The vote is open for the next 72 hours and only votes from the Incubator
> PMC are binding.
>
> ~
> Proposal: Zeta Components
> ~
>
> Zeta Components is a high-quality library of loosely-coupled PHP components.
>
> - --
> Status
> - --
>
> The proposal has been discussed on the incubator mailinglist. 3 mentors
> have volunteered, the confirmation of Julien Vermillard and Christian
> Grobmeier for the IPMC is pending.
>
> - 
> Proposal
> - 
>
> Originally developed as an open source project named eZ Components [1]
> by eZ Systems AS [2] under New BSD license. eZ Systems has agreed to
> relicense the source code and documentation, under the name Zeta
> Components, and donate it to the Apache Software Foundation.
>
> The goal of the project is to provide high-quality, loosely-coupled
> components for the development of applications based on PHP version 5.1
> and above. Zeta contains standard PHP framework components (e.g.
> database abstraction, templating, email, image manipulation); and
> modules which are unique in the PHP world, like a document format
> conversion component, a WebDAV server module and a workflow based
> programming framework.
>
> The project is developed with a strong focus on code and documentation
> quality, and backwards compatibility. It follows a well-defined
> development process with extensive architecture and design discussions,
> and prescribes a test-driven development approach.
>
> - --
> Background
> - --
>
> PHP is the most common language for developing web applications, but is
> also in use in other areas. While the language itself already ships with
> many libraries to solve different tasks, there is still a need for user
> land libraries to provide more complex repetitive functionality.
>
> Zeta provides components dedicated to such functionality. An example for
> a tasks that can be solved using Zeta are processing and sending of
> email. This is already possible from within pure PHP. But working with
> multi-part MIME emails is not easily possible and a real pain when doing
> that on your own. For that reason, a module exists in Zeta which allows
> the developer to easily create and send such emails and to receive and
> process them.
>
> The Zeta project currently consists of the following components:
>
>  * Archive
>  * Authentication
>  * AuthenticationDatabaseTiein
>  * Base
>  * Cache
>  * Configuration
>  * ConsoleTools
>  * Database
>  * DatabaseSchema
>  * Debug
>  * Document
>  * EventLog
>  * EventLogDatabaseTiein
>  * Execution
>  * Feed
>  * File
>  * Framework
>  * Graph
>  * GraphDatabaseTiein
>  * ImageAnalysis
>  * ImageConversion
>  * Mail
>  * MvcAuthenticationTiein
>  * MvcFeedTiein
>  * MvcMailTiein
>  * MvcTemplateTiein
>  * MvcTools
>  * PersistentObject
>  * PersistentObjectDatabaseSchemaTiein
>  * PhpGenerator
>  * Search
>  * SignalSlot
>  * SystemInformation
>  * Template
>  * TemplateTranslationTiein
>  * Translation
>  * TranslationCacheTiein
>  * Tree
>  * TreeDatabaseTiein
>  * TreePersistentObjectTiein
>  * Url
>  * UserInput
>  * Webdav
>  * Workflow
>  * WorkflowDatabaseTiein
>  * WorkflowEventLogTiein
>  * WorkflowSignalSlotTiein
>
> As can be seen, there are typical web-application modules included, such
> as the Feed component - which allows users to generate and consume
> different types of aggregation feeds -, the already mentioned Mail
> component, a template component for website templates and a WebDAV
> server component. Beside that, the library also contains many modules
> which are not only suitable for web applications, like a component for
> managing various archive file formats, multiple layers of database
> abstraction, tools for image manipulation, basic interfaces and
> implementations of a model-view-controller structure and more.
>
> In contrast to other frameworks, the components in Zeta are loosely
> coupled and there are almost no hard inter-dependencies between them.
> Instead, if a component can be integrated with another one, a so-called
> Tiein component is provided, supplying the classes necessary to couple
> the components. This allows users to cherry 

Re: [VOTE] Accept Zeta Components into the incubator

[Donald Woods]

+1 (binding)


-Donald

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Re: [VOTE] Accept Zeta Components into the incubator

[Julien Vermillard]

Here my +1

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz
 wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Tobias Schlitt  wrote:
>
>> ...Please vote on the acceptance of Zeta Components for incubation at the
>> Apache Incubator...
>
> +1, bring Zeta into Incubator
>
> -Bertrand
>
> BTW, very happy to see a project name starting with Z, we'll have the
> whole alphabet now ;-)
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Re: [VOTE] Accept Zeta Components into the incubator

[jean-frederic clere]

+1

Cheers

Jean-Frederic

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Re: [VOTE] Accept Zeta Components into the incubator

[Mohammad Nour El-Din]

+1 (Not binding)

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) <
chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

> +1 (binding)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
>
> On 5/17/10 11:57 AM, "Andreas Wenk" 
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> +1, bring Zeta into Incubator
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy
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> ++
> Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
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> University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
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Re: [VOTE] Accept Zeta Components into the incubator

[Mattmann, Chris A (388J)]

+1 (binding)

Thanks!

Cheers,
Chris


On 5/17/10 11:57 AM, "Andreas Wenk"  wrote:

Hi,

+1, bring Zeta into Incubator

Cheers

Andy
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Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
Senior Computer Scientist
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246
Email: chris.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov
WWW:   http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
++
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
++

Re: [VOTE] Accept Zeta Components into the incubator

[Nicolas Pastorino]

+1

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RE: [VOTE] Accept Zeta Components into the incubator

[Noel J. Bergman]

+1

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Re: [VOTE] Accept Zeta Components into the incubator

[Bertrand Delacretaz]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Tobias Schlitt  wrote:

> ...Please vote on the acceptance of Zeta Components for incubation at the
> Apache Incubator...

+1, bring Zeta into Incubator

-Bertrand

BTW, very happy to see a project name starting with Z, we'll have the
whole alphabet now ;-)

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Re: [VOTE] Accept Zeta Components into the incubator

[Paul Borgermans]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Tobias Schlitt  wrote:
> Please vote on the acceptance of Zeta Components for incubation at the
> Apache Incubator. The full proposal is available at the end of this
> message and on the wiki at
>
>        http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ZetaComponentsProposal
>
> We ask the Incubator PMC to sponsor the project with Erik Abele as the
> Champion and Craig L. Russel, Julien Vermillard and Christian Grobmeier
> volunteering to be mentors. Note that the acceptance of Julien and
> Christian for the IPMC is currently pending.
>
> Please cast your votes:
>
 [X ] +1, bring Zeta into Incubator

Non-binding though

Regards
Paul

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