Re: [Ant nudge STATUS] Better than we thought...

2002-10-26 Thread Stephen McConnell
Andrew C. Oliver wrote: well principally you should be interested in this communication. Another PRO... more opportunity for ant committers to become recognized and achieve membership. .. um, you say that like there is an end-gain An honor more like. . Plus the opportunity to h

Re: Open vs. Closed mailing lists (was Re: Planting a seed)

2002-10-26 Thread Stephen McConnell
+1 - I like the position and the policy :-) Andrew C. Oliver wrote: Sorry for the cross post Lets move this to community. Think about infrastructure, pr, website content management, etc etc - all things without a real 'project' (only in the technical sense of a CVS module), but still resources o

Re: Welcome to Apache Letter

2002-10-27 Thread Stephen McConnell
Ted Husted wrote: On Jakarta, we have a sample letter that can be sent to Contributors when we are ready to nominate them as Committers. It occurred to me that we should also have a follow-up letter welcome them as a Committer. This would be a good place to insert some of points that have come

Re: Welcome to Apache Letter

2002-10-27 Thread Stephen McConnell
Ted Husted wrote: On Jakarta, we have a sample letter that can be sent to Contributors when we are ready to nominate them as Committers. It occurred to me that we should also have a follow-up letter welcome them as a Committer. This would be a good place to insert some of points that have come

Re: Welcome to Apache Letter

2002-10-27 Thread Stephen McConnell
Ted Husted wrote: It also occurs to me that something the incubator project can do is provide a template set of guidelines and procedures for the projects. In the way of guidelines, we have a draft set that includes several "clarifications" , in case anyone in the incubator project is interest

Re: [VOTE] Open this list

2002-10-28 Thread Stephen McConnell
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: View 1: Open the list completely, anyone can subscribe, post and read the archive. +1 View 2: Keep the list open only to committers, members and invitees (highly contributive developers and users) so far as posting goes, however allow anyone to re

Re: Apache Community (was Re: [VOTE] Open this list)

2002-10-28 Thread Stephen McConnell
Waldhoff, Rodney wrote: Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: "B. W. Fitzpatrick" wrote: Limit the list to committers (with no public archive or posting ability) but allow committers to nominate "users" who have contributed to the Apache community, but not in a developer role (or users could

Re: idiot.html

2002-10-29 Thread Stephen McConnell
Martin van den Bemt wrote: Please see http://jakarta.apache.org/site/love.html as an alternative... I like the love.html alternative - is embrassing, more depth, warmth, and has a level of empathy that somehow get's lost in the other document. Cheers, Steve. :-D Mvgr, Martin -Original

Re: idiot.html

2002-10-29 Thread Stephen McConnell
Sam Ruby wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: I like the love.html alternative - is embrassing, more depth, warmth, and has a level of empathy that somehow get's lost in the other document. Cheers, Steve. :-D FYI: [EMAIL PROTECTED] site]$ls -l love.* lrwxrwxr-x 1 jon jakarta 10 Jul 17

Re: idiot.html

2002-10-29 Thread Stephen McConnell
Kurt Schrader wrote: On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Ted Husted wrote: 10/29/2002 6:33:40 AM, Rodent of Unusual Size <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ha, ha. i see the humour. however, someone seeing that on an official apache web site is going to think it represents the overall apache viewpoint. i perso

Re: [VOTE] Openness

2002-10-30 Thread Stephen McConnell
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: VOTE 1: would you like to make it possible for non-committers to read this mail list thru a web archive? [X] +1 yes, let's make it readable [ ] 0 don't know/don't care [ ] -1 no, let's keep it private - o - VOTE 2: would you like to m

Re: Rules for Revolutionaries

2002-11-12 Thread Stephen McConnell
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Quoting Costin Manolache <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Thanks for answering this, it is really helpful. On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 04:25, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Please, let me ask you a few questions. I would be very happy if you or others could answer them: 1) was Catalin

Re: Rules for Revolutionaries

2002-11-12 Thread Stephen McConnell
Jeff Turner wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:05:24AM +0100, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: ... I still disagree. The rules of revolutionaries *MUST* (I repeat *MUST*!!!) protect the identity of the project more than they protect the freedom of innovation of the single developers. More than anythi

Re: The Apache Jakarta Law (Scientific?)

2002-11-13 Thread Stephen McConnell
Andrew C. Oliver wrote: Alright, here you go. Get it out of your systems so I hear 3.3 was a total waste of time and that 4.0 was the best thing ever and that 4.0 is way faster than 3.3. So I hear 4.0 was a big evil conspiricy on the part of Sun via Craig McClanahan who is really a dro

Re: Rules for Revolutionaries

2002-11-13 Thread Stephen McConnell
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: Jeff Turner wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:05:24AM +0100, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: ... More than anything else, the fact that two different codebases were *released* with the same name at the same time, pissed many people off (myself included) and created a

Re: Maven and community

2003-02-28 Thread Stephen McConnell
Just for reference - I'm somewhat surprised at the flack handed out to Jason. He and the other Maven committers are doing an out-and-out brilliant job of bringing together the next generation. My feeling is that these guys are being squeezed unnecessarily - but don't ask me why because I don't kn

Re: How BSD hurts OpenSource

2003-05-14 Thread Stephen McConnell
David N. Welton wrote: Justin Erenkrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: What I wonder is how many of those authors/copyright-holders have actually read the GPL and understand what it really means. -- justin Probably not the details, but on the other hand, the concept of the GPL is clever, an

Re: How BSD hurts OpenSource

2003-05-14 Thread Stephen McConnell
Andrew Savory wrote: Hi, On Wed, 14 May 2003, Stephen McConnell wrote: 1. open-source is free and that is a problem for department managers because this means they loose budget Fair comment up to a point - but there are vendors of open source software out there, so there are ways around

Re: Follow the example

2003-09-19 Thread Stephen McConnell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ceki Gülcü <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 18/09/2003 11:55:43 PM: What can be done to fix this? Many thanks in advance, There's no coverage on some of the top level projects you mention, e.g. no sessions on Ant, Avalon, James & Maven. Dion - I think we are going to

Re: Follow the example

2003-09-19 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Dion - I think we are going to have to get a suite and shift you up to marketing! Is Dion staying that long? Cool. I just knew that he'd be rooming with us at the Software Summit conference at the end of October. So I think you should double your budget ... this guy

Re: establish a trust relationship (Re: missing signatures)

2003-09-24 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Ahhh. Now, there are no *ASF members* in Japan (Maybe, this goes for other Asian countries), so the things can be easily inconsistent. There are other ASF Committers in Japan. Lief Mortenson, for example, the author of the Java Wrapper and frequent Avalon contributor.

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Stephen McConnell
Joshua Slive wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: Nope. I have to resign. Well, thanks for your contribution Tetsuya. I think it is a worthwhile project, and I hope you reconsider or someone picks it up. I do believe that there have been some people getting a little too pic

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Stephen McConnell
Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: I very much enjoyed the hard work that Tetsuya put into the newsletter and I'm very sad to see him step down because of such puny reasons as to which mailing list this newsletter should be sent. Me too on both points. Steve. -- Stephen J. McConnell mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: ASF Board Summary for March 17, 2004

2004-03-18 Thread Stephen McConnell
Greg Stein wrote: That is it for today. For discussion about the above items, please follow up on the community@apache.org mailing list. And as always, if you have any questions, comments, or other concerns which you wish to share privately, then please don't hesitate to contact myself or any other

RE: Board Commentary: Metro and Avalon

2004-09-24 Thread Stephen McConnell
ED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Board Commentary: Metro and Avalon > > On Thursday 23 September 2004 15:53, Greg Stein wrote: > > > We have significant reservations around including Stephen McConnell > > on any PMC at the ASF. For the forseeable future, I do not see

RE: Board Commentary: Metro and Avalon

2004-09-24 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Henning Schmiedehausen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > As a non-member of the Avalon community, I've noticed that a rift opened > up there from far, far away. > > But as my primary project in the Jakarta Community (Turbine) considers > moving closer to Avalon, I'

RE: Board Commentary: Metro and Avalon

2004-09-24 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > You make it sound as if the Board was off on a lark, when the fact is that > the situation has all too often discussed in many circles, and the Board > has been fairly closely monitoring the project for more than two

RE: Board Commentary: Metro and Avalon

2004-09-24 Thread Stephen McConnell
et the cat! Cheers, Steve. > -Original Message- > From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 24 September 2004 21:58 > To: community@apache.org > Subject: RE: Board Commentary: Metro and Avalon > > Stephen McConnell wrote: > > > Sure - we talked o

RE: Board Commentary: Metro and Avalon

2004-09-26 Thread Stephen McConnell
Ken: > -Original Message- > From: Rodent of Unusual Size [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 27 September 2004 00:02 > > you really don't seem to understand. *stephen* wasn't on the distribution > list, and yet you checked with him. had he been informed before you did > so? and you also

RE: Board Commentary: Metro and Avalon

2004-09-27 Thread Stephen McConnell
> [resending, with modifications, due to screwed up cc list the first time] > > Stephen McConnell wrote: > > > > I find this discussion and the usage of terms such as "severe lack of > > respect" to be out of place and largely disproportionate with the real

RE: Style of community building

2004-09-29 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Rodent of Unusual Size [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 29 September 2004 13:17 > To: community@apache.org > Subject: Re: Style of community building > ... how are lessons to > be learnt is not from examining past situations and their resolutions? Have a

RE: Apache Community Worldwide -- again

2004-10-04 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 04 October 2004 01:28 > To: community@apache.org > Subject: RE: Apache Community Worldwide -- again > > David Crossley wrote: > > on what list can all committers discuss issues > > without fear of spilling the

RE: private mailing list for committers (Was: Apache CommunityWorldwide -- again)

2004-10-04 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: David Crossley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 04 October 2004 03:07 > To: community@apache.org > Subject: private mailing list for committers (Was: Apache > CommunityWorldwide -- again) > > Stephen McConnell wrote: > > Noel

RE: private mailing list for committers (Was: Apache CommunityWorldwide -- again)

2004-10-04 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Sander Temme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 04 October 2004 05:27 > To: community@apache.org > Subject: Re: private mailing list for committers (Was: Apache > CommunityWorldwide -- again) > > > On Oct 3, 2004, at 7:22

RE: [ANN] Avalon Closed

2004-12-01 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Niclas Hedhman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > And on behalf of the developers at Avalon, I would like to Thank ALL the > past Chairs and members of the Avalon PMC, for a all-in-all a job well > done. I'm sorry - but you will have to exclude myself from the abo

RE: [ANN] Avalon Closed

2004-12-17 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 15 December 2004 23:11 > To: community@apache.org > Subject: RE: [ANN] Avalon Closed > > > the only ones who really got hurt were the Avalon users, and the ASF > > establishment have already declared that they

RE: [ANN] Avalon Closed

2004-12-17 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 17 December 2004 03:09 > To: community@apache.org > Subject: RE: [ANN] Avalon Closed > > Stephen McConnell wrote: > > > When you say "and the two container factions that

RE: [ANN] Avalon Closed

2004-12-19 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Serge Knystautas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 15 December 2004 21:01 > To: community@apache.org > Subject: Re: [ANN] Avalon Closed > > Niclas Hedhman wrote: > > Smoke and Mirrors - isn't there a passage in the New Testament > > with something about si

RE: [ANN] Avalon Closed

2004-12-20 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Serge Knystautas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I can somewhat understand though not empathize with > wanting to have history reflect what you see as having happened. Maybe this about making Apache a better place by identifying hypocrisy here out in the open in

RE: [ANN] Avalon Closed

2004-12-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: William A. Rowe, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 17 December 2004 08:42 > To: community@apache.org > Cc: community@apache.org > Subject: RE: [ANN] Avalon Closed > > At 08:30 PM 12/16/2004, Stephen McConnell wrote: > > &

RE: [ANN] Avalon Closed

2004-12-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Niclas Hedhman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 December 2004 04:29 > To: community@apache.org; Noel J. Bergman > Subject: Re: [ANN] Avalon Closed > > On Tuesday 21 December 2004 07:54, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > Niclas Hedhman wrote: > > > I give you an

RE: [ANN] Avalon Closed

2004-12-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Rodent of Unusual Size [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 December 2004 05:10 > To: community@apache.org > Subject: Re: [ANN] Avalon Closed > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Niclas Hedhman wrote: > > > On Tuesday 21 December 2004 07:41, Noel J. B

RE: [ANN] Avalon Closed

2004-12-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 December 2004 05:30 > To: community@apache.org > Subject: RE: [ANN] Avalon Closed > > > "consensus by attrition" is a negatively loaded term, yet a natural > > occurring thing in all projects > > Not when

RE: [ANN] Avalon Closed

2004-12-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Rodent of Unusual Size [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 20 December 2004 22:16 > To: community@apache.org > Subject: Re: [ANN] Avalon Closed > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Stephen McConnell wrote: > > >

RE: [ANN] Avalon Closed

2004-12-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 December 2004 05:30 > To: community@apache.org > Subject: RE: [ANN] Avalon Closed > > Stephen McConnell wrote: > > > William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > > > Stephen McConn

RE: [ANN] Avalon Closed

2004-12-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Rodent of Unusual Size [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 December 2004 14:32 > To: community@apache.org > Subject: Re: [ANN] Avalon Closed > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Stephen McConnell wrote: > >> >

RE: [ANN] Avalon Closed

2004-12-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 December 2004 20:13 > To: community@apache.org > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ANN] Avalon Closed > > > On Dec 21, 2004, at 2:02 PM, Stephen McConnell wrot

RE: [ANN] Avalon Closed

2004-12-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Rodent of Unusual Size [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 December 2004 20:22 > To: community@apache.org > Subject: Re: [ANN] Avalon Closed > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Stephen McConnell wrote: > >> >

RE: [ANN] Avalon Closed

2004-12-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Rodent of Unusual Size [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 December 2004 20:22 > To: community@apache.org > Subject: Re: [ANN] Avalon Closed > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Stephen McConnell wrote: > >> >

RE: [ANN] Avalon Closed

2004-12-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Rodent of Unusual Size [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 December 2004 21:55 > To: community@apache.org > Subject: Re: [ANN] Avalon Closed > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Stephen McConnell wrote: > > > >

RE: Is ASL2.0 not "GPL-compatible" ??

2004-12-21 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 December 2004 21:59 > To: community@apache.org > Subject: Re: Is ASL2.0 not "GPL-compatible" ?? > > > > On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, robert burrell donkin wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 21 December 2004 00:02,

RE: Is ASL2.0 not "GPL-compatible" ??

2004-12-22 Thread Stephen McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 December 2004 01:21 > To: community@apache.org > Subject: RE: Is ASL2.0 not "GPL-compatible" ?? > > > > On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Stephen McConnell wrote: > &g