Re: Personal Attacks [was Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!]

2003-01-30 Thread Jeremy Quinn
On Thursday, Jan 30, 2003, at 15:18 Europe/London, Steven Noels wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Thanks everybody for their patience on this. I think we all learned a great deal out of it. +1 regards Jeremy - To unsubscr

Re: Personal Attacks [was Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!]

2003-01-30 Thread Steven Noels
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Thanks everybody for their patience on this. I think we all learned a great deal out of it. -- Steven Noelshttp://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center Read my weblog athttp://blogs.c

Re: Personal Attacks [was Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!]

2003-01-30 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Luca Morandini wrote: -Original Message- From: Stefano Mazzocchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 3:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Personal Attacks [was Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!] You had a wonderful chance to accept Nicola&#

RE: Personal Attacks [was Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!]

2003-01-30 Thread Luca Morandini
> -Original Message- > From: Steven Noels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 11:04 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Personal Attacks [was Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a > commiter!] > > 4) Donate, to the prospective Cocoo

Re: Personal Attacks [was Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!]

2003-01-30 Thread Steven Noels
Luca Morandini wrote: 1) Bring the JFreeChartTransformer (aka ChartTransformer) under the aegis of CocoonDev... (provided CocoonDev board accepts it, of course) Cool. Be sure to deal with the license stuff on beforehand. 2) Start collaborating with the Wings project on a common XML schema for

RE: Personal Attacks [was Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!]

2003-01-30 Thread Luca Morandini
> -Original Message- > From: Stefano Mazzocchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 3:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Personal Attacks [was Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a > commiter!] > You had a wonderful chance to acc

Re: Personal Attacks [was Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!]

2003-01-29 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 17:53, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > I've received private comments that suggested me to avoid doing those > little asskicks of mine in public. Sometimes I do them privately, > sometimes I do them publicly, mostly depends on who the person is. People with a lot of community

Re: Personal Attacks [was Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!]

2003-01-29 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Luca Morandini wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Nicola, you crossed the line. Sorry :-/ Luca and all cocoon-dev, please accept my sincere apologies. "The evil that men do lives after them; the good that men do is often interred with their bones." --Shakespeare, Julius Caesar. Which, in l

Re: Personal Attacks [was Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!]

2003-01-29 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Nicola, you crossed the line. Sorry :-/ Luca and all cocoon-dev, please accept my sincere apologies. Thank you, your prompt apologies are accepted and greatly appreciated. I've received private comments that suggested me to avoid doing t

RE: Personal Attacks [was Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!]

2003-01-28 Thread Luca Morandini
> -Original Message- > From: Nicola Ken Barozzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 8:44 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Personal Attacks [was Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a > commiter!] > > > > Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:

Re: Personal Attacks [was Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!]

2003-01-27 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Nicola, you crossed the line. Sorry :-/ Luca and all cocoon-dev, please accept my sincere apologies. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) -

Re: Personal Attacks [was Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!]

2003-01-27 Thread Jeff Turner
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:47:03AM +0100, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > Yes, I'm pissed. No-one's perfect. There's few better examples of screw-up/apologise/move-on committers than Nicola. --Jeff (who frequently screws up) - To u

Personal Attacks [was Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!]

2003-01-27 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Torsten Curdt wrote: I thought contributing to Cocoon to be easier... much easier :( I have put much time and effort in trying to make a charting solution. I think it's bad that he is not willing at all to collaborate. He says he wants "his" code in cocoon. Wings

Re: Why not LGPL? (Was: Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!)

2003-01-27 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Ovidiu Predescu wrote: Rewriting the code to conform to a license is a poor choice IMO. Agreed and respected. Although, there is a real problem: the LGPL says that you are forced to put changes back into the LGPL license only if you modify the library, but not the code that links to it. Now

Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-27 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Antonio Gallardo wrote: I think it is time to start thinking in a plug-in technology for Cocoon. Yes, it's time, but our avalon container is not good enough for that and avalon-dev is currently a big community mess. I'm concerned. I really am. I'm about to fork and write my own avalon contai

Re: Why not LGPL? (Was: Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!)

2003-01-26 Thread Ovidiu Predescu
Pier, On Sunday, Jan 26, 2003, at 11:58 US/Pacific, Pier Fumagalli wrote: If (for example) we, the ASF, decided to get the library and make some modifications to it, or, scarier though, we _had_ to "fork" the library for our own needs (imagine, the orignal author changes from LGPL to somethin

Re: Why not LGPL? (Was: Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!)

2003-01-26 Thread Pier Fumagalli
Luca Morandini wrote: I mean, Cocoon already has some components relying on non-ASL > libraries (like the SAP ones or the JDBC drivers); had these > libraries to change, ASF wouldn't be able to fork them, hence > resorting to change the Cocoon components, which is what was > to be avoided in the

Re: Why not LGPL? (Was: Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!)

2003-01-26 Thread Pier Fumagalli
Jeff Turner wrote: Not at Apache, but is there anything stopping a few developers forking the last LGPL'ed version on Sourceforge? Nope, not AFAIK... If so, then using LGPL code could be an acceptable risk. The alternatives (rewrite, or convince the world to adopt BSD/ASL) aren't fun at all.

RE: Why not LGPL? (Was: Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!)

2003-01-26 Thread Luca Morandini
> -Original Message- > From: Pier Fumagalli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 8:58 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Why not LGPL? (Was: Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a > commiter!) > S, I'd say, if you see the word GPL some

Re: Why not LGPL? (Was: Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!)

2003-01-26 Thread Jeff Turner
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 07:58:28PM +, Pier Fumagalli wrote: > Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > >Steven Noels wrote: > >>Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > >> > >>>I'm not going to put another jar in our dependencies that is LGPL also. > >> > >>You are not _allowed_ to do so. > > > >Actually, we can. It dep

Why not LGPL? (Was: Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!)

2003-01-26 Thread Pier Fumagalli
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Steven Noels wrote: Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: I'm not going to put another jar in our dependencies that is LGPL also. You are not _allowed_ to do so. Actually, we can. It depends on whom you ask ;-) Both wrong? :-) :-) Ok, let me try to explain the rationale beh

Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-26 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Steven Noels wrote: Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: 1) make mock classes for JFreeChart. I'm not going to put another jar in our dependencies that is LGPL also. You are not _allowed_ to do so. Actually, we can. It depends on whom you ask ;-) Nobody asked for it, too. Somebody asked that it b

Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-26 Thread Steven Noels
Torsten Curdt wrote: I personally would really appreciate the offer - but dislike the urge. ...that's a matter of attitude. Although I bet it has been meant as offer. It was Antonio who came up with the plea, and he already said it was meant enticing or provocative, nothing more. Luca feels str

Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-26 Thread Steven Noels
Steven Noels wrote: (wrong quoting) Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: I'm not going to put another jar in our dependencies that is LGPL also. You are not _allowed_ to do so. Nobody asked for it, too. -- Steven Noelshttp://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source, J

Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-26 Thread Steven Noels
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: 1) make mock classes for JFreeChart. I'm not going to put another jar in our dependencies that is LGPL also. You are not _allowed_ to do so. Nobody asked for it, too. -- Steven Noelshttp://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source, Java

RE: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-26 Thread Luca Morandini
> -Original Message- > From: Torsten Curdt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 6:43 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter! > I personally would really appreciate the offer - but dislike the urge. >

Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-26 Thread Torsten Curdt
I have no idea how much you guys realy tried to work things out before starting the new transformer - so I am out on this. Do you really think there is no way merging the both - or do you think it's not worth the effort? Have you had a look into the latest wings stuff - not yet in CVS? All I

RE: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-26 Thread Luca Morandini
> -Original Message- > From: Torsten Curdt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 3:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter! > > Although merging of both (if possible at all) would have been much >

RE: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-26 Thread Luca Morandini
-- > -Original Message- > From: Nicola Ken Barozzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 4:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter! > > > > I will commit the patch myself given t

RE: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-26 Thread Luca Morandini
Luca Morandini GIS Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://utenti.tripod.it/lmorandini/index.html - > -Original Message----- > From: Nicola Ken Barozzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 4:01 PM > To:

Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-26 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
I will commit the patch myself given the below points: 1) make mock classes for JFreeChart. I'm not going to put another jar in our dependencies that is LGPL also. 2) rename the transformer to JFreeChartTransformer 3) make a block called jfreechart 4) add an enrty to Bugzilla with [PATCH] in

Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-26 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Torsten Curdt wrote: I thought contributing to Cocoon to be easier... much easier :( I have put much time and effort in trying to make a charting solution. I think it's bad that he is not willing at all to collaborate. He says he wants "his" code in cocoon. Wings was based on my code. Then Ke

Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-26 Thread Torsten Curdt
I thought contributing to Cocoon to be easier... much easier :( Actually I feel a bit sorry about this... that's not very rewarding for someone wanting to contribute some code! And it makes me wonder: what are the objective reasons to include code into the codebase or not. Even for the committe

Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-26 Thread Torsten Curdt
Antonio Gallardo wrote: Steven Noels dijo: Antonio Gallardo wrote: Oops. I wrote the initial mail of the thread in the good sense. I think that Cocoon need a chart transformer as it use a PDF serializer, MP3 directory generator and so on. By the way into Cocoon we see 2 PDF serializer: itext

Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-25 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Steven Noels dijo: > Antonio Gallardo wrote: > >> Oops. I wrote the initial mail of the thread in the good sense. I >> think that Cocoon need a chart transformer as it use a PDF serializer, >> MP3 directory generator and so on. By the way into Cocoon we see 2 PDF >> serializer: >> >> itext and FOP.

RE: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-25 Thread Stephan Michels
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Luca Morandini wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Stephan Michels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 8:58 PM > > To: cocoon-dev > > Subject: RE: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter! > > >

RE: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-25 Thread Luca Morandini
> -Original Message- > From: Stephan Michels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 8:58 PM > To: cocoon-dev > Subject: RE: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter! > > That reminds me with my discussion with Stefano etc. f

RE: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-25 Thread Stephan Michels
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Luca Morandini wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Nicola Ken Barozzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 8:06 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter! >

RE: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-25 Thread Luca Morandini
> -Original Message- > From: Nicola Ken Barozzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 8:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter! > > I've looked at the source code, and it's one cl

Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-25 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Luca Morandini wrote: [...] what to do about ChartTransformer ? Plese, take into account that we're going to add more features to it (see the todo list) and they will be developed with only JFreeChart in mind I've looked at the source code, and it's one class, and it's heavily tied to JFreeC

RE: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-25 Thread Luca Morandini
> -Original Message- > From: Nicola Ken Barozzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 6:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter! > >> Well, in all fairness, I'd like "my" package

Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-25 Thread Steven Noels
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Steven Noels wrote: Luca Morandini wrote: Steven, this begs another question: what's should be inside Cocoon ? [...] To me, a component/block has not only a 'separateable' implementation, which shows in the package naming and the fact it being a block, but als

Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-25 Thread Steven Noels
Antonio Gallardo wrote: Oops. I wrote the initial mail of the thread in the good sense. I think that Cocoon need a chart transformer as it use a PDF serializer, MP3 directory generator and so on. By the way into Cocoon we see 2 PDF serializer: itext and FOP. those are very different things in

Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-25 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Oops. I wrote the initial mail of the thread in the good sense. I think that Cocoon need a chart transformer as it use a PDF serializer, MP3 directory generator and so on. By the way into Cocoon we see 2 PDF serializer: itext and FOP. I never thinked it will trig a hot discusion. Sorry for that.

Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-25 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Steven Noels wrote: Luca Morandini wrote: Steven, this begs another question: what's should be inside Cocoon ? [...] To me, a component/block has not only a 'separateable' implementation, which shows in the package naming and the fact it being a block, but also some 'principal caretaker',

Re: Donated stuff [WAS: RE: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!]

2003-01-25 Thread Steven Noels
Luca Morandini wrote: So, IMHO, the community should welcome donations, as long as they come with no string attached and fit into the general vision. Sure, but you are stating it a bit twisted yourself what the reasons are behind a donation ;-) Regards, P.S. A big kiss to you as well, provid

Donated stuff [WAS: RE: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!]

2003-01-25 Thread Luca Morandini
> -Original Message- > From: Steven Noels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 11:10 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter! > I loath to see people creating stuff outside this community, but with >

Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-25 Thread Steven Noels
Luca Morandini wrote: Steven, this begs another question: what's should be inside Cocoon ? http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=panacea ;-) I promised to start a Wiki page about that, but haven't come across some copious free time yet. _My_ main problem in researching this is the disjunc

RE: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-25 Thread Luca Morandini
> -Original Message- > From: Steven Noels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 11:10 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter! > > Sure. If more people, and hopefully Tom and other Wings folks, beco

Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-25 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Antonio Gallardo wrote: But as I said in the SAP R/3 case, this won't solve the problem of the corpulent codebase, and the issues with oversight that comes with its weight. Your efforts in blockifying stuff have already unearthed several issues, and I think we should actively try to keep the co

Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-25 Thread Antonio Gallardo
But as I said in the SAP R/3 case, this won't solve the problem of the corpulent codebase, and the issues with oversight that comes with its weight. Your efforts in blockifying stuff have already unearthed several issues, and I think we should actively try to keep the core codebase clean & healthy

Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-25 Thread Steven Noels
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: In Cocoon we already have a chart transformer, based on Krysalis Wings. It has evolved, and now we use JCharts, that is APL compatible. Evolved? It requires some serious work, you mean. You are overselling Wings, Nicola. Wings has a committers base which is rather ina

RE: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-24 Thread Luca Morandini
OTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 12:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter! > > > > Luca Morandini wrote: > > Steven, > > > > I'll arrange the donation in a few days :) > > In Cocoon we already have a

Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-24 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Luca Morandini wrote: Steven, I'll arrange the donation in a few days :) In Cocoon we already have a chart transformer, based on Krysalis Wings. It has evolved, and now we use JCharts, that is APL compatible. Wings has the possibility of using different charting packages as back-ends, and J

RE: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-24 Thread Luca Morandini
.html - > -Original Message- > From: Steven Noels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 8:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter! > > > Antonio Gallardo wrote: > > > Hey commiters, w

Re: ChartTransformer 0.0.4 urge a commiter!

2003-01-24 Thread Steven Noels
Antonio Gallardo wrote: Hey commiters, what are you waiting for? This is a very interesting stuff. Please, Hurry up! ;-D http://www.sidimar.ipzs.it/site/ sorry Antonio, that code is copyrighted by IPZS S.p.A, not ASF. Don't expect this to be done unless this stuff is effectively donated to t