Re: Can you spare 10 minutes to help Apache?

2010-02-16 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
Sally Khudairi wrote: Fellow ASF Community members -- hi sally We have been working with PhD candidate Roland Schroll over the past two years as he's been compiling information on the value of the Apache brand. His advisor is community-based innovation expert Dr. Johann Füller. This is a

Re: Can you spare 10 minutes to help Apache?

2010-02-16 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: Sally Khudairi wrote: Fellow ASF Community members -- hi sally We have been working with PhD candidate Roland Schroll over the past two years as he's been compiling information on the value of the Apache brand. His advisor is community-based innovation

Re: [OpenPGP] Key Transition

2009-10-24 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
Simon Pepping wrote: Robert, You recommend that the new key be made the default key. But if it is only meant to be used for code signing, it cannot be the default key. Unless this key is on a separate keyring. Right? a keyring can contain more than one secret key. any secret key in the ring

Re: [OpenPGP] Key Transition

2009-10-14 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
Grant Ingersoll wrote: I'm trying to follow the instructions at: http://www.apache.org/dev/openpgp.html#generate-key And am getting [1] below. I think I have a public keyring (I've signed releases in the past so I thought it should just work). I'm using GPG 2.0.12 on OS X (10.6). I have

Re: [OpenPGP] Key Transition

2009-10-14 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
Grant Ingersoll wrote: Another question: When updating my KEYS file (per http://www.apache.org/dev/key-transition.html#transition-export), do I replace my old one with the new dual export, or do I append to the KEYS file? there's no functional difference (at least during the transition)

Re: [OpenPGP] Key Transition

2009-10-14 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
Grant Ingersoll wrote: On Oct 14, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: Grant Ingersoll wrote: Another question: When updating my KEYS file (per http://www.apache.org/dev/key-transition.html#transition-export), do I replace my old one with the new dual export, or do I append

[OpenPGP] Key Generation Instructions

2009-08-15 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
i've blogged some instructions for generating stronger keys at http://www.jroller.com/robertburrelldonkin/entry/openpgp_generating_a_strong_key which i hope can be the basis of apache key generation documentation. feedback and testing welcomed - robert

Re: [OpenPGP] Moving Away From DSA and SHA-1

2009-08-12 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roy T. Fielding wrote: On Aug 11, 2009, at 8:24 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: 1024 bit keys and SHA-1 links are currently considered safe so there's no reason to believe that apache keys have been compromised. transition statements [1

Re: [OpenPGP] Moving Away From DSA and SHA-1

2009-08-12 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Henri Yandell wrote: Need to update http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html to say 4096 asap I suspect :) Stop new people being lured into this problem. yes but... key size isn't the direct cause of the problem: SHA-1 is AIUI the OpenPGP

Re: [OpenPGP] Moving Away From DSA and SHA-1

2009-08-12 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Rich Bowenrbo...@rcbowen.com wrote: Is it possible to regenerate my gpg key without losing all the signatures on my existing key? To bootstrap the new key,

Re: [OpenPGP] Moving Away From DSA and SHA-1

2009-08-12 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: Henri Yandell wrote: Need to update http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html to say 4096 asap I suspect :) Stop new people being lured into this problem. i've committed something (as a stopgap measure) yes

[OpenPGP] Moving Away From DSA and SHA-1

2009-08-11 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 with ApacheConUS only three months away, we really need to start planning how apache can move away from short keys (DSA and RSA 2048) and weak WOT links (SHA-1)[1]. the consensus on infra was that this is the best list for this discussion. if it

Re: [OpenPGP] Moving Away From DSA and SHA-1

2009-08-11 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rich Bowen wrote: On Aug 11, 2009, at 10:13, Tony Stevenson wrote: You cannot retrospectively 'upgrade' your key, AIUI, at least. So you will sadly lose all your signatures as you will need a new key. it should be possible to use a script

Re: [VOTE] Change community@ list settings

2009-07-08 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [X] +1 Change list settings (allow anyone to subscribe or post) [ ] -1 Keep the current settings - - robert -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: [apachecon] Meet the developers corner

2009-05-25 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, Here's an idea I came up with for the proposed Content/Web Technology track in ApacheCon US 2009: We'd reserve and mark a table or a corner of the Hackathon area as the Meet the developers corner where conference

Re: [meetup] Hadoop in Berlin

2009-04-30 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Hi Isabel, On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Isabel Drost isa...@apache.org wrote: ...In the past year there have been quite a few Apache events (Bar Camps, Meetups, User Groups etc.). Actually there were so many, I

How To Get (More) Apache Products Into Linux Distros

2009-04-09 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 this has been in the air for a while. it popped up recently on the incubator list. i've create an issue (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-104) for anyone who has a comment but doesn't want to join gene...@incubator.apache.org - -

Themes [WAS Re: Topic-based mailing lists]

2009-04-08 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, At the ApacheCon we discussed about introducing some generic topic-based mailing lists at Apache. Currently inter-project cooperation is a bit difficult as joining another dev@ or user@ mailing list can be a pretty

Re: Topic-based mailing lists

2009-04-01 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 J Aaron Farr wrote: On Tue 31 Mar 2009 21:34, Henri Yandell hyand...@gmail.com wrote: Use community@ - if people get annoyed they'll voice that and the correct context list can be created. Community gets used so rarely that I don't have a filter

Sign The Birthday Post

2009-03-31 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Add your comment to https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_asf_is_ten_years -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: Fw: Call for Participation for OpenExpo 2008 in Zürich, Switzerland (24./25. September 2008)

2008-04-20 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 09:24 +0200, berndf wrote: Jeremias Maerki wrote: I'm forwarding this CfP here as I've participated in the last OpenExpo in Berne, Switzerland. It was a huge success [1][2]. I hope you'll excuse that most of the information below is in German. There's some

RE: Grassroots PR

2007-07-08 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 22:19 -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Ted Husted wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] email drops -1 because the last thing we need are press and security e-mails getting dropped on the floor. If the PRC and Security teams, who actually care about the

Re: Apache license headers

2007-04-01 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 10:21 +0200, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: Very nice! I love the compactness and readability of Ruby (no joke!). If you are interested in a more overengineered solution to that problem, there is CodeWrestler at

tips for ApacheCon digs in dublin?

2006-05-01 Thread robert burrell donkin
does anyone have any advice/opinions about (cheap) accommodation in dublin? (haven't been in that fine city for a decade) - robert signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: tips for ApacheCon digs in dublin?

2006-05-01 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 20:32 +0100, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 08:05:40PM +0100, robert burrell donkin wrote: does anyone have any advice/opinions about (cheap) accommodation in dublin? snip Cheaper can be gotten of course, but mainly in the City Centre which

RE: Question on sending email to PMCs ?

2006-04-06 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 14:17 -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: I'd like to mail an informal email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] that all PMC member know about that award Is this appropriate for all PMCs? What makes you believe that they'd care? who knows whether they'd care? not me... but IMHO the

Re: At what point do you unsubscribe/deny a misbehaving user?

2006-01-09 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 19:08 -0500, Ted Husted wrote: On 1/5/06, robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm not sure that i'll find the time for an article but - if there unfortunately isn't anyone out there with a literary itch to scratch - i will create a basic document over

Re: At what point do you unsubscribe/deny a misbehaving user?

2005-12-18 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 09:07 -0800, Jean T. Anderson wrote: robert burrell donkin wrote: I'll look at the jakarta lists for how the OT FUD was handled. LOL! i hope you're going to be looking for anti-patterns :) IIRC jakarta didn't exactly have a good record for avoiding flamewars. back

Re: At what point do you unsubscribe/deny a misbehaving user?

2005-12-17 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 19:22 -0800, Roy T. Fielding wrote: On Dec 16, 2005, at 6:28 PM, Jean T. Anderson wrote: For crying out loud, would you please supply links to the exact posts you consider to be in poor taste and the person's name? I just wasted 10 minutes trying to follow the

legal FAQ for committers and contributors?

2005-07-31 Thread robert burrell donkin
IIRC when the legal-discuss mailing list was first created, the idea of a legal FAQ for committers was floated preferably written by someone with legal training. AFAIK this hasn't happened yet. i agree with danny (http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jakarta-general/200507.mbox/% [EMAIL

[invitation] work on jakarta and ASF websites

2005-01-08 Thread robert burrell donkin
over in jakartaland, we're trying to tidy up the website. as a result of this, some documents will be removed from the jakarta site. many of these do or should have replacements at the ASF level. so, it's become a bit of an initiative to improve the general ASF documentation as well (including

Re: Is ASL2.0 not GPL-compatible ??

2004-12-21 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 21 Dec 2004, at 19:52, Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Tuesday 21 December 2004 00:02, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: snip Furthermore, it was explained to me that the patent right disclaimers in the ASL2.0 can be circumvented in nasty ways by a truly malicious company/individual if that is the intent, SO

PRC [WAS Re: ASF Board Summary for June 23, 2004]

2004-06-28 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 27 Jun 2004, at 12:23, Greg Stein wrote: snip * The Board approved the formation of the Public Relations Committee (PRC). This new committee replaces the Fundraising Committee and also rolls in the responsibility and management of our press activities, public relations, and management of

Re: [HEADS-UP] Migrating to SVN, history files and old repos...

2004-05-30 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 30 May 2004, at 05:58, Berin Lautenbach wrote: smip Personally I'm a big believer in no such thing as a dumb question. : there's no such thing a dumb question, only a dumb answer : - robert - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Microsoft patents XML based script automation?

2004-02-14 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 13 Feb 2004, at 07:28, Conor MacNeill wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:19:40 -0500, Noel J. Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3312091 Patent: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2Sect2=HITOFFu=/ netahtm

Re: Farewell to Martin Pöschl

2004-02-14 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 12 Feb 2004, at 22:35, Thom May wrote: snip just use (or link to) and update what's already on www.apache.org/foundation/martin.html ? There's some sample text on www.apache.org too, courtesy of StevenN i've added links from the jakarta site to the foundation page. (i'll leave the jakarta

Re: Farewell to Martin Pöschl

2004-02-11 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 11 Feb 2004, at 17:29, Lars Eilebrecht wrote: According to Jim Jagielski: I think it would be most appropriate for the ASF to send some sort of condolences to the Pöschl family (eg: flowers). ++1 definitely +1 this is certainly a big shock. martin's seems to have been around jakarta forever

ISO may charge developers to use language and country codes

2003-09-29 Thread robert burrell donkin
see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/2003JulSep/0213. if ISO decides to charge, then will this have an impact on apache products? if so, is there any action that the ASF can take to influence ISO's decision? - robert

Re: [m17n] mailinglist (Re: [i18n] Internationalization project)

2003-07-29 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 11:40 AM, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: snip Very good points I think. 1. Legal risk 2. where to start as a first step snip 1. Sure, I think if the ASF hosts the translated websites, we (sorry: I prefer to use *WE* when indicationg the ASF) have to think about the QUALITY of

Re: Jakarta Newsletter Issue 9 -- May-June 2003

2003-07-10 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 03:00 PM, Thom May wrote: * Nicola Ken Barozzi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : Thom May wrote, On 10/07/2003 15.24: Jakarta has an announcement list. Guess what, most, if not all announcements go also to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go figure. MHO is that a mail a month is not a

Re: Jakarta Newsletter Issue 9 -- May-June 2003

2003-07-09 Thread robert burrell donkin
hi Tetsuya thanks again for all the hard work in the limited time available for newsletter 9. i'd you like to volunteer to create an xml newsletter as well as a jakarta one then i'm sure it'd be a great success. - robert On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 05:41 PM, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: Thank you

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-23 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Monday, June 23, 2003, at 06:59 PM, Ted Leung wrote: Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: snip - the java world seems to need amazing number of indians (or committers) relative to lines of codes or bugs fixed. And seems to see more isolated pockets of people than the xml and other

Re: Common documents across the ASF

2003-06-22 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 05:31 AM, Glen Stampoultzis wrote: At 01:09 PM 19/06/2003, you wrote: Why NOT have shared documents?  I've heard it said that the CVS organization is the barrier.  OK, so why not look at what reasonable steps could relieve that barrier?  What would happen if we had

Re: FW: Chinese version for jakarta project webs

2003-05-17 Thread robert burrell donkin
we received this a little while ago on jakarta pmc. i'd like to send them some kind of response. i'm posting this on community since it seems likely to me that this might also be of interest to a number of ex-jakarta projects and also that it'd be good to have a broader set of opinions. (i'll

Re: ASF repository URI syntax

2003-03-01 Thread robert burrell donkin
i think that maybe organization / project would be better that /project/[subproject/..]. i think that including organization would a good idea for a couple of reasons. first, it would make it pretty clear that it's an URI is for an ASF jar. secondly, it would allow expansion later for non-ASF

Re: [digester] site generated via Maven b8

2003-02-27 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 10:22 PM, O'brien, Tim wrote: Added Clover reports as well. Although, I can't figure out what it means that Digester has a 0.7% coverage. It is more than possible that I have configured something incorrectly here. I'm assuming that all ASF projects have

db.apache.org url is missing

2003-02-18 Thread robert burrell donkin
(i'm not really sure where comments about the main foundation site should be posted or how to submit patches. hopefully someone will correct me if this isn't the right place.) i noticed that http://www.apache.org/foundation/projects.html has an entry for db.apache.org which is missing a

Re: Clear the air Re: ATTN: Maven developers [was: primary distribution location]

2003-02-05 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 09:29 PM, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: snip so we must not distribute any 3p (third-party) packages from asf systems if it is not permitted by their licences. nor may any of our code automatically go off and fetch such packages and start using them on the user's

Re: Where to place Agora?

2003-02-03 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 05:09 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: so, I wonder, should I go down the path of 'incubation'?, should I move it under the committers/ CVS? or in the community CVS? move it on sourceforge? should we clutter this mail list or should we ask for another

Re: ASF Member/Committer AUP

2002-12-02 Thread robert burrell donkin
communities can only grow so fast and so large by using osmosis to transfer ideas. the incubator will need to be able to tell incubatees the apache resources at their disposal and the limits beyond which use of these resources becomes abuse. i'd like to this kind of information provided to