RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-03-03 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
> How much should be encoded in a URI, and how much in data associated with > the URI? You seem to be trying to encode all of the data into the URI > naming space. Why not have a single URI for the target, and then trigger > behavior based upon the content? That would seem more extensible and l

RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-03-02 Thread dion
"Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/03/2003 06:45:42 AM: [snip] > How much should be encoded in a URI, and how much in data associated with > the URI? You seem to be trying to encode all of the data into the URI > naming space. Why not have a single URI for the target, and then t

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-03-02 Thread dion
Nick Chalko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/03/2003 05:09:50 AM: > A somewhat standard layout is the important part. > > If we are changing current practice I think > > project/[subproject]/version/(jar|zip|gz|docs|liscenses) > is very good. Sub project is, IMHO, way too fragile to be part of

RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-28 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Nick, As long as you want to start with first principles ... > >If we have a layout and metadata we agree on - any tool could work. > >If it is an ant task or a perl program or we just rsync - it doesn't > >matter. > A somewhat standard layout is the important part. > project/[subproject]/versi

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-28 Thread Nick Chalko
Costin Manolache wrote: On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Seeing the interest it has raised, I tend to think think it's time to get the act together and start working on it. I'd like to propose this for incubation ASAP, so to not loose momentum. ... Codebases or part of codebases

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-28 Thread Costin Manolache
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > Seeing the interest it has raised, I tend to think think it's time to > get the act together and start working on it. I'd like to propose this > for incubation ASAP, so to not loose momentum. > ... > > Codebases or part of codebases that could co

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-28 Thread Ben Hyde
Are you arguing that the ASF should stop striving to keep licenses compatible? No. Where did you get that idea? Probably entirely from my own paranoia that people would rather write code than deliver easy to adopt software. My apologies. - ben ---

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-28 Thread Santiago Gala
Henri Gomez wrote: FYI, the JPackage project where I'm also involved, as set up a Java RPM centric distribution where you could find many (still not all) apache's java projects. http://.jpackage.org/ Hi, Henry. I'm using them and they are awful to simplify maintenance of linux rpm based machin

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-28 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Henri Gomez wrote, On 28/02/2003 15.08: Leo Simons wrote: Hi all, (sorry for the massive crosspost up front, as this is a proposal that should in the end come from the various PMCs towards the infrastructure team I'm doing lots of CCing, just once) FYI, the JPackage project where I'm also involv

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-28 Thread Henri Gomez
Leo Simons wrote: Hi all, (sorry for the massive crosspost up front, as this is a proposal that should in the end come from the various PMCs towards the infrastructure team I'm doing lots of CCing, just once) FYI, the JPackage project where I'm also involved, as set up a Java RPM centric distribu

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-27 Thread Nick Chalko
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Not sure what you mean by "lead" ( do you propose a new PMC with Dion as chair ? ). I'm +1 on Dion - however the layout and recommendations must be decided by the normal apache community process I meant as in "chair", except that it wouldn't be a PMC, so I don't know if

RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-27 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> Not sure what you mean by "lead" ( do you propose a new PMC with Dion as > chair ? ). I'm +1 on Dion - however the layout and recommendations must be > decided by the normal apache community process I meant as in "chair", except that it wouldn't be a PMC, so I don't know if the word "chair" woul

RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-27 Thread Morgan Delagrange
--- Costin Manolache <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > In other words - as long as maven decisions > affect only maven - I don't > > > care. But if it affects other projects, and the > repository certainly does > > > - then the PMCs of t

RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-27 Thread Costin Manolache
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > - the ASF repository shall contain ASF jars, which don't >require oversight beyond the issuing PMC. > - the ASF repository should contain shared third party >jars for which the ASF has approved their use and >distribution. > - the ASF

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-27 Thread Costin Manolache
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Few simple questions: > > > > Should we use 2 different dirs for src and binary distribution ? Or > > maybe 3 dirs ( src, bin, doc ) ? > > Why duplicate the existing distributions? They're available, mirrored and > well understood. +1 I was j

RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-27 Thread Costin Manolache
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In other words - as long as maven decisions affect only maven - I don't > > care. But if it affects other projects, and the repository certainly does > > - then the PMCs of those projects or the apache community are the ones > > that deci

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-27 Thread dion
Ben Hyde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 28/02/2003 01:46:43 AM: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You know that ASF jars aren't 'freely' distributable, right? The > > license > > specifies some conditions on binary distribution. > [snip good stuff] > Are you arguing that the ASF should stop striving

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-27 Thread Ben Hyde
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know that ASF jars aren't 'freely' distributable, right? The license specifies some conditions on binary distribution. All the open source sub-communities have various conventions about how to manage the legal tangles around IPR. We, the foundation, currently have

RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-27 Thread dion
Costin Manolache <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 27/02/2003 08:28:05 AM: > On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > > differing views on how to make use of the repository. Costin and I seem to > > be of the option that a significant portion of the value of the repository > > comes from sha

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-27 Thread dion
Costin Manolache <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Few simple questions: > > Should we use 2 different dirs for src and binary distribution ? Or > maybe 3 dirs ( src, bin, doc ) ? Why duplicate the existing distributions? They're available, mirrored and well understood. > Are "milestone" builds

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-27 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Wednesday, February 26, 2003 6:15 PM +0100 Leo Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: my take: keep everything. Again, policy should be the same as for the contents of /dist/. I dunno if there is an asf-wide policy for that...looking at http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/old/, those guys don't shar

[Fwd: RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)]

2003-02-26 Thread Sam Ruby
My opinion is that the board should take this suggestion very seriously. Original Message Subject: RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:54:20 -0500 From: "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rep

RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-26 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> you get an ok on [sharing and centralizing the managment > of ASF-acceptable third party jars] from the board and/or > the infrastructure team, and consensus across the community, > and I'll be absolutely 100% behind any such plan. I can't see how it would be acceptable to anyone without all of

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-26 Thread Leo Simons
Leo Simons wrote: you get an ok on that from the board and/or the infrastructure team, and consensus across the community, and I'll be absolutely 100% behind any such plan. scratch that, I'm in a "Just Do It" mood today. Just sent a message to the board (who are reading already anyway, but hey,

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-26 Thread Leo Simons
Noel J. Bergman wrote: As you have seen from some of our exchange and Costin's comments, there are differing views on how to make use of the repository. Costin and I seem to be of the option that a significant portion of the value of the repository comes from sharing and centralizing the managment

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-26 Thread Nick Chalko
+1 Noel J. Bergman wrote: Costin, I agree with pretty much all of your particulars. To summarize, if I might: - the ASF repository shall contain ASF jars, which don't require oversight beyond the issuing PMC. - the ASF repository should contain shared third party jars for which the ASF has app

RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-26 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Costin, I agree with pretty much all of your particulars. To summarize, if I might: - the ASF repository shall contain ASF jars, which don't require oversight beyond the issuing PMC. - the ASF repository should contain shared third party jars for which the ASF has approved their use and

RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-26 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 16:28, Costin Manolache wrote: > On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > Well, Maven doesn't seem to be that concerned with duplication, and values > the competition :-) To paraphrase Jason - what's wrong with multiple > competing repositories ? A smart tool should

Re: Ant PMC Issue (was: RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository(was: primary distribution location))

2003-02-26 Thread Steven Noels
Noel J. Bergman wrote: If the fundamental philosophy of the ASF is Community First, how do you feel that you contributed to that today? Quite simple: the ASF has the honour to host mr. Van Zyl's project on its servers. In return, they get flamed with FUD and ownership. Bah. -- Steven Noels

RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-26 Thread Costin Manolache
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > differing views on how to make use of the repository. Costin and I seem to > be of the option that a significant portion of the value of the repository > comes from sharing and centralizing the managment of ASF-acceptable third > party jars. Not enti

Re: Ant PMC Issue (was: RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location))

2003-02-26 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Jason van Zyl wrote: What irks the hell out of me is people like Nicola constantly whining about being excluded. Excluded from what? I find this message quite interesting in this context: http://www.mail-archive.com/general@jakarta.apache.org/msg07046.html Expecially your signature. -- Stefano Mazz

RE: Ant PMC Issue (was: RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository(was: primary distribution location))

2003-02-26 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Jason, > > why aren't Ant and Maven two related projects under a single PMC? > Well, because when Ant formed they had no desire to be grouped with > Maven Based upon your attitude today towards Greg, Sam, Nicola (who isn't even here, but was accused of whining), etc., I can't say that I blame th

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-26 Thread Nick Chalko
Costin Manolache wrote: On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Nick Chalko wrote: So I am for /projectname/[subproject]/[version]/file[-version].jar That leo suggested. I'm not sure that's what Leo suggested. The [] imply optional. But my main point is Centipede will adapt to whatever Apache uses. Havi

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-26 Thread Costin Manolache
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Nick Chalko wrote: > So I am for > /projectname/[subproject]/[version]/file[-version].jar > > That leo suggested. I'm not sure that's what Leo suggested. Having the version in both dir and jar seems a bit too much. The common practice in many projects ( at least in jakarta

RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-26 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Leo, As you have seen from some of our exchange and Costin's comments, there are differing views on how to make use of the repository. Costin and I seem to be of the option that a significant portion of the value of the repository comes from sharing and centralizing the managment of ASF-acceptabl

RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-26 Thread Noel J. Bergman
My proposal is that Dion Gillard be asked to chair a repository committee. He is the most familar with the issues, he works with a lot of the Java technologies (Tomcat, Ant, Maven, James, Jetspeed, Struts, Turbine), and although he is a Maven fan, he is agnostic in terms of ensuring that all build

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-26 Thread Nick Chalko
Leo Simons wrote: do that, but the big disadvantage with deviating from the existing maven/centipede/ruper practice is that it deviates from that practice, thus requiring work and reducing compatibility. If you feel like holding a vote, by all means feel free, I'll probably vote -1 for deviating

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-26 Thread Leo Simons
Costin Manolache wrote: What policy should we use for removing older versions ( or we just keep everything ) ? my take: keep everything. Again, policy should be the same as for the contents of /dist/. I dunno if there is an asf-wide policy for that...looking at http://www.apache.org/dist

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-26 Thread Costin Manolache
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Leo Simons wrote: > >Should we use 2 different dirs for src and binary distribution ? Or maybe > >3 dirs ( src, bin, doc ) ? > > > based on current practice at http://www.ibiblio.org/maven, the answer to > both is "no". A quick > glance at the java projects @ http://www.apa

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-26 Thread Leo Simons
Costin Manolache wrote: On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Leo Simons wrote: files in /dist/java-repository besides perhaps HEADER.html and README.htmls... Few simple questions: Should we use 2 different dirs for src and binary distribution ? Or maybe 3 dirs ( src, bin, doc ) ? based on current pract

RE: Ant PMC Issue (was: RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location))

2003-02-26 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 10:55, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > I wouldn't phrase it quite that way, but as long as the question is on the > table: why aren't Ant and Maven two related projects under a single PMC? Well, because when Ant formed they had no desire to be grouped with Maven which is perfect

RE: Ant PMC Issue (was: RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location))

2003-02-26 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Conor, I could be wrong, but I don't believe that Dion was refering to the repository; rather he was commenting in response to my aside regarding Ant and Maven: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:48:42PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Noel Bergman writes: > > I like the idea of a central repository.

Re: Ant PMC Issue (was: RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location))

2003-02-26 Thread Conor MacNeill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Read the Ant missionit specifically states the Ant build system as it's scope. Hi Dion, Your subject got my attention :-) Is there an Ant PMC issue here? We're certainly open to working with other projects within Apache and beyond. Is Ant's scope statement preventing

Ant PMC Issue (was: RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location))

2003-02-26 Thread dion
Noel Bergman writes: > I like the idea of a central repository. It would simplify the issue by > centralizing maintenance of jars and licenses. I just want to know how it > is going to operate. A joint operation between Ant and Maven? > Infrastructure? > > [I won't even get into the question o

RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-25 Thread Costin Manolache
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > all PMCs whose committers 'commit' to the repository should maintain > > some oversight. > > Infrastructure hasn't considered that a good model for the Wiki, and I don't > know that it would work any better for the repository. Someone needs to > ta

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-25 Thread Costin Manolache
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Leo Simons wrote: > files in /dist/java-repository besides perhaps HEADER.html and > README.htmls... Few simple questions: Should we use 2 different dirs for src and binary distribution ? Or maybe 3 dirs ( src, bin, doc ) ? Are "milestone" builds acceptable ? Should we g

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-25 Thread Leo Simons
Noel J. Bergman wrote: all PMCs whose committers 'commit' to the repository should maintain some oversight. Infrastructure hasn't considered that a good model for the Wiki, and I don't know that it would work any better for the repository. Someone needs to take responsibility for the oversigh

RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-25 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> all PMCs whose committers 'commit' to the repository should maintain > some oversight. Infrastructure hasn't considered that a good model for the Wiki, and I don't know that it would work any better for the repository. Someone needs to take responsibility for the oversight. > I'm not suggestin

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-25 Thread Leo Simons
well, I put in place a basic readme (actually, HEADER.html) and a sample package to indicate what I think would be the right organisation. I've basically copied over the layout used by the maven repo at ibiblio and explained how that works. This info should be sufficient for people to start addi

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-25 Thread Leo Simons
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Which PMC is going to oversee the repository? all PMCs whose committers 'commit' to the repository should maintain some oversight. I don't think there's an "official" precedent wrt how this works @ apache. It might be possible to get the infrastructure peeps to take on the

RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-25 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > I thought this was for Apache only jars. Just a place for projects to > > place there "Released jars" as a compliment to the zip and qz > > distributions. So there should be no license issues. > > Well, I'm still waiting to hear about some of thi

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-25 Thread Leo Simons
Sam Ruby wrote: - Leo (avalon pmc member acting sort-of on behalf of "the java peeps" using the lazy consensus model and the Just-Do-It-in-the-event-of-consensus mindset :D) I like that mindset. Note: the essence of lazy consensus is that such actions are immeditely rolled back if an issue is r

RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-25 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> I thought this was for Apache only jars. Just a place for projects to > place there "Released jars" as a compliment to the zip and qz > distributions. So there should be no license issues. Well, I'm still waiting to hear about some of this. From Dion's review, he mentioned to me that he belie

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-25 Thread Nick Chalko
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Note: the essence of lazy consensus is that such actions are immeditely rolled back if an issue is raised. I plan to do exactly that. I assume that you mean roll it back if an issue is raised, because obviously you wouldn't have put it up if you had an objection. :-) W

RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-25 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 19:13, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > Note: the essence of lazy consensus is that such actions > > are immeditely rolled back if an issue is raised. I plan > > to do exactly that. > > I assume that you mean roll it back if an issue is raised, because obviously > you wouldn't hav

RE: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-25 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> Note: the essence of lazy consensus is that such actions > are immeditely rolled back if an issue is raised. I plan > to do exactly that. I assume that you mean roll it back if an issue is raised, because obviously you wouldn't have put it up if you had an objection. :-) Which PMC is going to

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-25 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Leo Simons wrote: > Leo Simons wrote: > > > Normally, I'd just ask the infrastructure peeps to > > > > umask 002 > > mkdir /www/www.apache.org/dist/java-repository > > chown :apcvs /www/www.apache.org/dist/java-repository > > > > and get things started, but given the unusual (w

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-24 Thread Sam Ruby
Leo Simons wrote: Leo Simons wrote: Normally, I'd just ask the infrastructure peeps to umask 002 mkdir /www/www.apache.org/dist/java-repository chown :apcvs /www/www.apache.org/dist/java-repository and get things started, but given the unusual (well, maybe not ;) amount of controversy okay, so it

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-24 Thread Leo Simons
Leo Simons wrote: Normally, I'd just ask the infrastructure peeps to umask 002 mkdir /www/www.apache.org/dist/java-repository chown :apcvs /www/www.apache.org/dist/java-repository and get things started, but given the unusual (well, maybe not ;) amount of controversy okay, so it looks like controv

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-21 Thread Joshua Slive
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Conor MacNeill wrote: > Brian Behlendorf wrote: > > > > +1. I see nothing wrong with the plan. Hopefully Ant can be made smart > > enough to pull the jars down from mirrors, too. > > > > Patches always welcome, Brian :-) The mirror CGI script should be able to handle this

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-21 Thread Conor MacNeill
Brian Behlendorf wrote: +1. I see nothing wrong with the plan. Hopefully Ant can be made smart enough to pull the jars down from mirrors, too. Patches always welcome, Brian :-) Conor - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] F

Re: [proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-20 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Leo Simons wrote: > Based on the above, I suggest we create such a machine-readable > repository @ > daedalus.apache.org:/www/www.apache.org/dist/java-repository +1. I see nothing wrong with the plan. Hopefully Ant can be made smart enough to pull the jars down from mirrors,

[proposal] daedalus jar repository (was: primary distribution location)

2003-02-20 Thread Leo Simons
Hi all, (sorry for the massive crosspost up front, as this is a proposal that should in the end come from the various PMCs towards the infrastructure team I'm doing lots of CCing, just once) I've been giving this some thought. It has been pointed out that the primary distribution location for a