Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-27 Thread Pier Fumagalli
On 26/6/03 3:50, Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: note that for apache 1.3.x, JNI would have been hard because of the multi-process environment, but for apache 2.0, a JNI-based mod_java is perfectly valid architecturarely, but nobody works on it because of this sin syndrome. I'm

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-27 Thread Pier Fumagalli
On 27/6/03 0:43, Greg Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 12:32:08AM +0100, Pier Fumagalli wrote: ... Best way of doing things? Writing a connector for the servlet container using JNI that uses unix sockets, named pipes, or something which is actually faster than the usual

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-27 Thread Santiago Gala
Ask Bjoern Hansen escribió: Dan Sugalski wrote an article about why we can't just run Perl, Python or Ruby on the JVM or CLI: http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/blog/archives/000151.html This was the paper I couldn't find before. It made me think it was interesting, if it was able to do continuations,

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-27 Thread Costin Manolache
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Greg Stein wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 12:32:08AM +0100, Pier Fumagalli wrote: ... Best way of doing things? Writing a connector for the servlet container using JNI that uses unix sockets, named pipes, or something which is actually faster than the usual TCP socket

Re: .Net languages (was: How ASF membership works and what it means)

2003-06-27 Thread Costin Manolache
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Greg Stein wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:42:12PM -0700, Costin Manolache wrote: ... Dot net is actually doing almost the same mistake as java (AFAIK)- they support other languages, but only syntactically ( like java does with the languages that generate java

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-27 Thread Pier Fumagalli
Costin Manolache [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Pier Fumagalli wrote: Now, if we put a JVM inside the Apache process scope, we end up with the same problem we had with Apache 1.3, how in the world am I going to be able to share a session between a JVM inside a multithreaded

Parrot [was Re: How ASF membership works and what it means]

2003-06-27 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
copying the cocoon folks since we are getting pretty serious with continuations overthere (we implement them using a modified version of Mozilla Rhino, a javascript engine written in java) on 6/26/03 3:15 PM Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Santiago Gala wrote: [...] I still

Re: Parrot [was Re: How ASF membership works and what it means]

2003-06-27 Thread Santiago Gala
Stefano Mazzocchi escribió: (...) Wow, a VM with native continuations, very interesting. Question: do you think it would be possible to compile java source code into parrot bytecode? how would the limited Perl typing capabilities would impact that? The key piece is the validator. The Java VM uses

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-26 Thread Ben Laurie
robert burrell donkin wrote: one interesting consequence of a general move within jakarta towards extensive unit testing is that the time required to commit patches has significantly increased. my experience now is that creating good unit tests takes more than the time it takes to write the

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-26 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
on 6/26/03 6:46 AM Santiago Gala wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi escribió: on 6/24/03 6:59 AM Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: I think that we have multiple subcultures under the ASF umbrella, due to the way that the umbrella projects were formed. Whether you like that or not, I think that is the

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-26 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Ben Laurie wrote, On 26/06/2003 18.54: ... Presumably the idea behind unit testing is that it reduces the time spent chasing bugs. Mostly in OS it reduces time spent *re*chasing bugs ;-) If the overall effect is not less developer time used per unit of functionality, then I have to wonder what

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-24 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, robert burrell donkin wrote: one interesting consequence of a general move within jakarta towards extensive unit testing is that the time required to commit patches has significantly increased. my experience now is that creating good unit tests takes more than the time

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-24 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: on 6/23/03 8:42 AM Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: ..cut.. - In the java, and to some extend the xml world, we have much, much much more code which was only touched 1-4 times by = 2 people over time. this is another problem and, IMO,

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-24 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Ted Leung wrote: ..cut.. - Organisationally xml and java are still lagging behind; but have been catching up (though the catch up has slowed down somewhat due to a much larger influx from the old school side; and that influx is by average younger than

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-24 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
on 6/24/03 6:59 AM Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: I think that we have multiple subcultures under the ASF umbrella, due to the way that the umbrella projects were formed. Whether you like that or not, I think that is the reality. I know that I personally would And I think that is a healty

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-23 Thread Steven Noels
On 22/06/2003 3:43 Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: I personally believe in keeping the bar low for committership and keeping the bar high for membership. I believe that this helps us getting more people inside the foundation (potential members) but keeps the real powers of the foundation heavily filtered

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-23 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Steven Noels wrote: Stefano's insightful post got me carried away to run some stats on members projects: http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/archives/001008.html I've always stopped short of doing just this; and more kept things limited to a pie diagram and postings/#of

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-23 Thread Steven Noels
On 23/06/2003 15:42 Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: This as it mostly shows 'today' rather than the members body which grew over time and is effectively lagging. I.e. you are looking at data which tells you more about history than about the future. And that todays future is tomorrows history. My

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-23 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
on 6/21/03 11:01 PM Thom May wrote: * Stefano Mazzocchi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : NOTE: copying members@ and community@ since this might be helpful to many people. Stefano, this was a really well written piece that, for me anyway, explained perfectly the difference between committers

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-23 Thread Ted Leung
Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Steven Noels wrote: Stefano's insightful post got me carried away to run some stats on members projects: http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/archives/001008.html I've always stopped short of doing just this; and more kept things limited to

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-23 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
on 6/23/03 8:42 AM Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Steven Noels wrote: Stefano's insightful post got me carried away to run some stats on members projects: http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/archives/001008.html I've always stopped short of doing just this; and more

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: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-23 Thread Steven Noels
On 23/06/2003 21:30 Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Dirk is right pointing out how a specific frame in time tells you the 'position' but not the 'speed'. Luckily, social dynamics don't exhibit the Heinsenberg principle. To amuse the easily bored, here's 2002, 2001 and 2000:

How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-22 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
NOTE: copying members@ and community@ since this might be helpful to many people. As many of you know, three cocoon committers were nominated then elected members of the Apache Software Foundation yesterday. Since I've been inquired by a few on how the system works, I'll spend some words on the

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-22 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: NOTE: copying members@ and community@ since this might be helpful to many people. WoW! - Excelent summary. Can we put this up somewhere on one of the foundation pages please, if need be as 'Stefano's excelent and balanced view' :-) Dw.

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-22 Thread Astrid Keßler
As many of you know, three cocoon committers were nominated then elected members of the Apache Software Foundation yesterday. Since I've been inquired by a few on how the system works, I'll spend some words on the process and what it means for me. Thank you very much for these words, Stefano.