Re: PMC membership

2003-01-26 Thread Kip Hampton
I'd be happy to help out. I know Jörg is interested, as well, so, please, let's hear from everyone before we jump into any kind of voting. -kip . Matt Sergeant wrote: Guys, I know you're not generally responsive to axkit-dev posts, but this is pretty important as it has a cut-off date (31st Jan)

Re: PMC membership

2003-01-27 Thread Kip Hampton
Matt Sergeant wrote: OK, so committers please vote for PMC membership now for: I'm not sure how appropriate it is to vote for one's self, but, in the interest of completeness... [ ] Matt Sergeant +1 [ ] Kip Hampton +1 -kip

Re: Ideas for 1.7

2003-02-01 Thread Kip Hampton
Matt Sergeant wrote: - Fix the cache delivery system and clean up this whole area. - Add two new language processors - XML::STX and PeTaL. - Get it working with Apache::Fake (Jorg don't you dare commit these changes yet ;-) - Fix config merging (I believe Kip is working on that) More writing that

RFC: 1.7 Feature -- Add get_dom() to Providers

2003-02-17 Thread Kip Hampton
Howdy AxHackers, Feature: Add a get_dom() method to the Providers to allow custom Provider authors to pass in an XML::LibXML DOM document instance. Justification: Currently, application-based Provider authors must either: 1) incur the major overhead of calling toString() on their DOMs and return

RFC: 1.7 Feature -- New Config Directive: AxSkipInDocumentMappings

2003-02-17 Thread Kip Hampton
Feature: Add an AxKit configuration directive that allows users to skip over the get_styles() root, DTD stylesheet PI extraction as needed. Justification: The AxAdd(Root|DTD|Doctype)Processor directives are damn useful for most general cases, but users should have the option to skip over the log

Re: RFC: 1.7 Feature -- New Config Directive: AxSkipInDocumentMappings

2003-02-17 Thread Kip Hampton
Jörg Walter wrote: On Monday, 17. February 2003 04:27, Kip Hampton wrote: Feature: Add an AxKit configuration directive that allows users to skip over the get_styles() root, DTD stylesheet PI extraction as needed. We could make that automatic - we know at request time if any content-dependent

Re: RFC: 1.7 Feature -- Add get_dom() to Providers

2003-02-17 Thread Kip Hampton
Robin Berjon wrote: Jörg Walter wrote: On Monday, 17. February 2003 04:08, Kip Hampton wrote: Feature: Add a get_dom() method to the Providers to allow custom Provider authors to pass in an XML::LibXML DOM document instance. Look at LibXSLT.pm for example - the code used to parse the XML is used

Re: RFC: 1.7 Feature -- Add get_dom() to Providers

2003-02-17 Thread Kip Hampton
Matt Sergeant wrote: > Or are you saying the other way around - provide a default get_dom() that works on top of the current get_fh() and get_strref() implementations? That makes a lot of sense to me. Right, he means just a wrapper over get_strref() and get_fh() that DOM-returning subclasses cou

[RFC] Altering the Execution Order in AxKit.pm

2003-03-13 Thread Kip Hampton
Howdy AxDevers... I think I've stumbled over a subtle logic flaw in AxKit.pm's main_handler method as it relates to Providers and caching. The "problem" lies in the fact that the Provider's process() method is called before determining whether or not the resource is cached. The Provider's proce

Re: [RFC] Altering the Execution Order in AxKit.pm

2003-03-14 Thread Kip Hampton
Jörg Walter wrote: On Thursday, 13. March 2003 22:53, Kip Hampton wrote: Howdy AxDevers... I think I've stumbled over a subtle logic flaw in AxKit.pm's main_handler method as it relates to Providers and caching. The "problem" lies in the fact that the Provider's process(

Re: [RFC] Altering the Execution Order in AxKit.pm

2003-03-14 Thread Kip Hampton
Matt Sergeant wrote: On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Kip Hampton wrote: So I'm happy for you to do whatever is required as long as it doesn't break regular file use. Agreed. Plus you can probably use the current AxKit::Cache module for doing provider level caching. Yup, any other way would silly

Re: Incremental Caching Patches

2003-04-11 Thread Kip Hampton
Chris Leishman wrote: Really? I didn't notice that... AFAIK a Content-Length header is only actually returned when delivering from a cache file (apache calculates the content-length, etc, after the $r->filename is set and the handler declines). When delivering normally I noticed that there is

Incremental Caching Patches [Long]

2003-04-09 Thread Kip Hampton
Howdy AxDevers, Okay, I finally had a chance to install the proposed caching patches that came from Chris L through the users' list (CC'ing you, Chris since I'm not sure if you're subbed here or not). The changes proposed touch a fair amount of code and re-organize some of AxKit most basic behavio

Re: Fixing the default processors bug

2003-07-06 Thread Kip Hampton
Matt Sergeant wrote: I just need votes now on whether or not to apply the fix. Can I see a show of hands? +1 -kip

Re: Proposal: XSP attribute interpolation

2003-07-09 Thread Kip Hampton
Robin Berjon wrote: They don't care about being compatible with us. In fact, just because it's suggested by one of us and not one of them they'll reject it as "dirty". I'd say don't bother wasting your patience on them. You may be right, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try. If they're wrong

Re: 1.6.2 release today?

2003-07-28 Thread Kip Hampton
Matt Sergeant wrote: I'm going to release 1.6.2. OK? +1 Though I'm concerned that the new Apache::Test stuff will make installing via CPAN a real PITA (unless the right httpd is in the path, the tests can never pass). Thoughts there? -kip

Test

2003-09-18 Thread Kip Hampton
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Re: cvs commit: xml-axkit/lib/Apache/AxKit/Provider File.pm FileWrite.pm

2003-09-18 Thread Kip Hampton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jwalt 2003/09/17 14:58:39 Modified:.Changes Makefile.PL lib/Apache/AxKit LibXMLSupport.pm Provider.pm lib/Apache/AxKit/Language XPathScript.pm lib/Apache/AxKit/Provider File.pm FileWrite.pm Log: - create p

Re: Pseudo-Protocols

2003-09-19 Thread Kip Hampton
Jörg Walter wrote: On Friday, 19. September 2003 09:57, Matt Sergeant wrote: Since it broke the test suite, can you back out the change and check it in on a branch. Thanks. I can easily back out the change in XPathScript, as it is the only module not working. The others work well even on several

Re: XSP Precaching

2003-09-23 Thread Kip Hampton
Jörg Walter wrote: Am Tuesday, 23. September 2003 09:39, schrieb Matt Sergeant: Is there any value in making the pre-load module a separate module on CPAN? Given that Preload.pm essentially only is 10 lines + docs, probably not... +1 to putting it in the core dist. -kip

Re: Pseudo-Protocols

2003-09-24 Thread Kip Hampton
After careful thought, I'm still of two minds about the advisability of doing URI-scheme bindings inside AxKit. On the one hand, I think users would greatly benefit from having things like document('xmldb://whatever/query') "just work" from within XSLT and XPathScript stylesheets, but I can't h

RFC: AVT for XSP's element and attribute

2003-09-25 Thread Kip Hampton
What: Extend attribute-value-template behavior to include the 'name' attribute for XSP's and . Why: Syntactic sugar, really. We now offer AVT for attribute values in literal output, so, why not have it for the generated names of elements and attributes created via and to save users a bit of verb

Re: RFC: AVT for XSP's element and attribute

2003-09-26 Thread Kip Hampton
Matt Sergeant wrote: And the "value" attribute for xsp:attribute. Funny, I thought about this originally, too, but there's no such animal. XSP's 'attribute' element has the same behavior as XSLT's[1]. That is, the value for the newly created attribute may appear only as the text contents of the

Re: Fwd: [Fwd: Status of XML and Apache Mirrors]

2003-10-06 Thread Kip Hampton
Matt Sergeant wrote: We're the only project lagging on this (aside from Xerces-P, which is in a similar boat). It's not a big deal for us, I think, because we have CPAN. But I think we should do it anyway. Can one of the committers figure out what needs doing and how? I'll do it tonight (Monday)

Re: Fwd: [Fwd: Status of XML and Apache Mirrors]

2003-10-07 Thread Kip Hampton
I wrote: I'll do it tonight (Monday). Okay, mostly done. All that's left is for Matt to create a KEYS file in /www/www.apache.org/dist/axkit/ (on minotaur) with his public key in it so folks can use the .asc file to verify the download (here's an example [1] ). Past that, all redirects, symlinks,

Re: [Fwd: Status of XML and Apache Mirrors]

2003-10-07 Thread Kip Hampton
Matt Sergeant wrote: OK, think I did it. No idea if there's something you can do to syntax check the file though... I just imported them without a hitch and verified your sig for the current distribution. I'd say that we're all set. -kip

Re: AxKit to be "partitioned"

2003-11-22 Thread Kip Hampton
Matt Sergeant wrote: In case some of you on here aren't subscribed to general@xml.apache.org, I suggest you either subscribe now or go through the archives. They are talking about re-partitioning the XML PMC, and this might quite drastically effect how the AxKit project is managed. Your feedback

Prep For New Release

2004-01-26 Thread Kip Hampton
Hey Folks, The Apache licence has now officially changed to the 2.0 version and we need to update our stuff accordingly. I say we take the opportunity to round up bugsfixes and other patches and get them ci'd in preperation for a new release. Votes? Also, Matt, can you *please* change the downl

Re: Prep For New Release

2004-01-27 Thread Kip Hampton
Matt Sergeant wrote: All done now. Thanks, daddy-o. -kip

Re: Prep For New Release

2004-01-27 Thread Kip Hampton
Matt Sergeant wrote: I don't think there's much to go in, but essentially I'm +1. Its not like we have showstoppers and need to do a mad dash or anything, but I do think its important that we get the licensing in the dist updated and I know that some of us (me) have the tendency to let little th

Re: Prep For New Release

2004-01-27 Thread Kip Hampton
Mike Chamberlain wrote: Namely.. The changes to provider.pm and AxKit.xs which fix the get_strref called twice bug. The changes to the way error styles are handled (Provider::Error + some changes to AxKit.pm) which makes error styles work with AxMedia +1 on both -kip

Re: Patch: AxDirHandler pluggable support

2004-02-22 Thread Kip Hampton
Michael A Nachbaur wrote: This adds a new configuration directive "AxDirHandler " which is used to indicate the desired directory handler plugin, but AxHandleDirs On|Off is still required to toggle if directory listings will be handled. If AxDirHandler is not specified, the default module Ap

Web Server Down (Again)

2004-02-29 Thread Kip Hampton
Can someone wake the hamster that powers axkit.org Maybe we need to rethink hosting? -kip

CLAs Still Missing

2004-03-20 Thread Kip Hampton
Hey guys, We really need to clear up the problem w.r.t. Contributor License Agreements that are still missing for some of the AxKit committers. The remaining culprits are: Robin Berjon Barrie Slaymaker Joerg Walter Even if you don't think you'll be contributing code to AxKit in the future, if y

Re: Web Server Down (Again)

2004-03-01 Thread Kip Hampton
Matt Sergeant wrote: I'm personally in no hurry to do this, but it depends what the community thinks. I'm in no rush, either. There are several things to consider: First, we've chosen not to use the resources provided by the ASF so that we can publish AxKit's public site *using* AxKit. I still thi

Wake-Up Call

2004-04-06 Thread Kip Hampton
Howdy Folks, This message is a long time coming and, since no one seems to want to step up to address the issue I guess I'll be the one to drag in into the light... Specifically, I'm concerned about apparent lack of recent interest in AxKit among what have historically been its core developers

Re: Wake-Up Call

2004-04-08 Thread Kip Hampton
Mike Chamberlain wrote: I like the idea of having a Pumpkin, I think the problem we've been having recently is no one has been wanting to take charge, and at other times too many people want to run the show / have conflicting ideas and there isn't anyone who is willing to act as a chairman to get

Re: Wake-Up Call

2004-04-20 Thread Kip Hampton
Matt Sergeant wrote: On 6 Apr 2004, at 17:13, Kip Hampton wrote: [1] http://totalcinema.com/axkit/axkitguidelines.xml I think this document hits the mark, and I'm +1 on moving forward with becoming a TLP and adopting this new development approach. I've gone over this document twi

Re: Wake-Up Call

2004-04-20 Thread Kip Hampton
Matt Sergeant wrote: Chris reports progress to the AxKit PMC at the (newly instituted) bi-weekly dev meetings. When the items on Chris' RP are knocked down and released, the process starts over. This seems like the Pumpking is also going to be the main developer on the release. Not necessaril

Re: Changing the Pipeline Model

2004-04-22 Thread Kip Hampton
Matt Sergeant wrote: We need to come to a decision on this - whether to fundamentally change our pipeline model in AxKit-2.0. I think the only sane answer to "do we do implement a pull or a push model for the core pipelines?" is "Yes!". What I mean is: why don't we make the pipeline just YA swap

Re: Moving forward

2004-04-27 Thread Kip Hampton
Matt Sergeant wrote: My suggestion is that to move forwards with things we hold off on the TLP thing for now - lets get the other parts of Kip's proposal working first. Lets try and eat this sandwich a bite at a time. Any objections/comments? Part of the point of the TLP proposal was to snap people

Re: Moving forward

2004-04-28 Thread Kip Hampton
Matt Sergeant wrote: I was just afraid that we could have problems eating the whole sandwich if it just looks like too much to take on. Sure, understood. I just truly believe that this is one of those cases where we'd do better to just dive in and take things as they come. -kip

Re: New Wiki Content at DefaultPage

2004-04-28 Thread Kip Hampton
Matt Sergeant wrote: Hope you like the addition of the URL. I think it makes spam a lot easier to fix. Yeah, its a big help... one of those "I can't believe we didn't think of it before" things. -kip

Re: Moving forward

2004-04-30 Thread Kip Hampton
Sorry for the lag... busy-busy... Matt Sergeant wrote: OK, well Berin's asking about progress on the PMC list. Would you like to respond or would you prefer I did? Either way is fine with me. I don't mind doing it, but it'll have to wait till Mon. or Tues. -kip

Re: New Eyecandy

2004-07-01 Thread Kip Hampton
Matt Sergeant wrote: OK uploaded. (the pb is in the img/ folder if you want to access it). Cool. Thanks, man. The stylesheet just changed the title bar height - is that what you expected? Yep, the header just needed to get a little taller to accommodate the new logo graphic. What do you think ab

Re: New Eyecandy

2004-07-01 Thread Kip Hampton
Matt Sergeant wrote: OK uploaded. (the pb is in the img/ folder if you want to access it). http://axkit.org/img/pb_axkit.png gives me a 404 -kip

Re: AxKitTrace

2004-07-02 Thread Kip Hampton
David J Craigon wrote: What I really want to see is the XML that failed to parse in the first place so I can identify the problem. Is there any way of achieving this? Yes, but not using AxTraceIntermediate (the mechanism for which is only invoked after the source XML is parsed, so an error ther

AxKit as TLP (Again)

2004-07-12 Thread Kip Hampton
Howdy folks, Just two things left to do before the ASF Board can decide whether or not AxKit will become a Apache TLP (Top-level Project). They are: 1) Gather volunteers for the proposed Project Management Committee (PMC). and vote on a PMC Chair from among those volunteers. 2) Draw up the offi

Re: AxKit as TLP (Again)

2004-07-14 Thread Kip Hampton
Matt Sergeant wrote: And I gladly +1 you both, happy to take a back seat. While I still love this project I'm clearly not helping things along much these days by trying to lead it by not doing anything. Well, I know I'd feel better if you'd sit on the PMC, if only in an advisory role-- but its u

Re: AxXMLCatalog, Reloaded...

2004-07-19 Thread Kip Hampton
Michael A Nachbaur wrote: Essentially, this patch intends to add the "AxXMLCatalog" Apache directive which defines which XML catalogs to include into XML::LibXML. Might we not be better off creating a more generic AxXMLParserOpt directive (that pushes onto a @list of key/value pairs)? Rationale

Re: AxXMLCatalog, Reloaded...

2004-07-19 Thread Kip Hampton
Michael A Nachbaur wrote: So, if this is the direction everyone'd like to go (anyone?) the XML Catalog directive would look like so: AxXMLParserOpt XMLCatalog /catalog1.xml AxXMLParserOpt XMLCatalog /catalog2.xml AxXMLParserOpt MaxDepth 4500 etc... +1

Re: AxKit as TLP (Again)

2004-07-19 Thread Kip Hampton
Matt Sergeant wrote: OK, I feel the love :-) Yay! Right, that gives us the following folks for the proposed PMC: Robin Berjon Michael Nachbaur Matt Sergeant Kip Hampton We (those listed above) need to pick a Chair. Robin nominated me already; other nominations? -kip

AxKit At ApacheCon

2004-09-20 Thread Kip Hampton
Howdy Axers, For those who may not already know, I'll be giving an 3 hour in-depth tutorial on AxKit at this year's ApacheCon US. http://apachecon.com/2004/US/index.html If you haven't ever been to ApacheCon, I simply can't recommend it highly enough. The conference is focused (all Apache, all t

Re: Please vote on doing a beta (alpha?) release.

2006-08-16 Thread Kip Hampton
+1 Matt Sergeant wrote: I need a few +1s to put up a download for AxKit2. Voters are: kip, darobin, barries, jwalt, mach, nachbaur Matt. .

Re: [VOTE] Release 1.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Kip Hampton
Matt Sergeant wrote: We're in a good stable position now. We have a test suite. We've got some nice apps shipping with it. I think it's time for a 1.1 release. +1 here (committers only voting please). +1 -kip