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 trigger

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

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

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 convole

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

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.

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 share

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 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 decide.

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 just

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 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 those projects or

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 would apply.

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 the

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 of why

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. It

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

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

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

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 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

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 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.

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

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

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 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

[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] Reply-To: community

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

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 this. From

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 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 suggesting

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

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 get

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 take

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]

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 fairly