Re: Requesting clarification in ByLaw text.

2004-12-22 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
uments and putting them in a more coherent manner: http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html http://www.apache.org/dev/ (Trying to make these endless clarification and discussion threads into something more constructive) -- Nicola Ken B

Re: [ANN] Avalon Closed

2004-12-21 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
unfortunatly I still fail to do) -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains

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

2004-12-20 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Niclas Hedhman wrote: ... Does anyone know, and preferably have any authorative-like links ?? http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code

Re: [ANN] Avalon Closed

2004-12-17 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
ision process, but individuals need to step up and step in when a community breaks down. +1 I can't agree more. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (disc

Re: Board Commentary: Metro and Avalon

2004-09-24 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Sam Ruby wrote: Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Since you don't seem sensible to common sense [snip] Just don't expect to change people, as it will never happen, especially if you are attacking them. Consider taking your own advice. Thanks, will do. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi

Re: Board Commentary: Metro and Avalon

2004-09-24 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
t like a project you don't like... take the code, change it, repackage it, do what you want as long as you give credit. Just don't expect to change people, as it will never happen, especially if you are attacking them. I don't have much more to say about this I'm afraid. -- N

Re: Board Commentary: Metro and Avalon

2004-09-24 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
on of members, that are also there only on invitation. If you don't understand this, you don't understand Apache. [1] http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9045938&query=kolkhoz&ct= -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba

Re: Making Daffodil Replicator an Open Source : Suggestion

2004-08-06 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
. I'm cross-posting to lists where there might be interest in helping you out on this. www.daffodildb.com -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code re

Re: Inexpensive Lists

2004-07-22 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
ck of knowledge and too much effort) and must bug the poor infra guys is a big problem. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, ju

Re: Inexpensive Lists

2004-07-22 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
to nuture aspirations and ideas. If we fail to give this, we will steadily loose involvment. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just co

Re: logos

2004-06-10 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
ut all the sources in "committers". Edit the projects.xml descriptor, run ant, and get the results in build. http://cvs.apache.org/~nicolaken/whiteboard/apachelogos/ http://cvs.apache.org/~nicolaken/whiteboard/apachelogos/#moreinfo -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ASF use spamassassin?

2004-04-17 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
good test for developers. I guess the SA guys would benefit from using it at Apache, as it seems to be a good testbed. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, ju

Re: automatic nagging for board reports?

2004-01-21 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
change it all) from there. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) - ---

Re: webbit 2004

2004-01-16 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
start organizing it now though, if we want to participate. Cool, I'm interested (I live in Crema [1]). Which one, this one: Padova 6-7-8- Maggio 2004 ? http://www.webbitcon.org/article/articleview/1005/ http://www.webbitcon.org/ [1] see nicolaken @ http://cvs.apache.org/~dirkx/sgala.html --

Re: Undermining the Incubator

2004-01-14 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
es can subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]@apache.org Andy, for one that rants about tricameral votes (which have been abandoned looong ago), you are pretty trigger-happy about cross-posting. :-PPP -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discu

Re: Single Location for syndicated Apache blogs

2004-01-11 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
ggestion. I will soon ask projects to send a status update, so we will see soon if you are right (I hope so :-) -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manen

Re: Policy for Jakarta Wiki(s)

2003-12-12 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
dev group. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) - --

Re: RFP: Apache T-Shirt Logo Contest

2003-10-29 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Glenn Nielsen wrote: ... Although Tomcat is not a TLP, it is the cornerstone on which Jakarta was built, and is high enough in profile to deserve being listed on the T-shirt IMHO. *This* is the real reason why Tomcat should become a TLP! ;-) -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Private mail lists [was: Inappropriate use of announce@]

2003-10-24 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
process looks obscure from the outside, even when, reading the relevant (private) messages makes the process obvious and non-controversial. Should most of those processes be held in public? Yes. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-22 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Phil Steitz wrote: Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Phil Steitz wrote: Craig R. McClanahan wrote: ... I don't think that effective decision-making in a large organization *requires* bureacracy. You're right. It requires responsibility. It's possible that an entity is responsible of so

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-21 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
In Apache it's mainly meritocratic communities that decide through the Apache decision-making process (not necessarily voting). Here it seems that it's not clear who is ultimately responsible for this, or if there is lack of oversight, but I might be wrong. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi

Re: Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
p all this nonsense? -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just co

Re: [RT] About Tetsuya decision....

2003-10-20 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
t has passed. We are not all male Americans, so we should also keep in mind that others see and feel things differently. On cocoon-dev I just say this link, and I think it's quite appropriate: http://www.cozy.org/ben/nsf.html -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL

W3C Ceases Development on libwww

2003-09-06 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Someone interested in working on it? -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains

Re: Newsletter.

2003-08-15 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
with only some projects. - I'd tone down the nagging of projects that don't contribute. Just point at their website and let it be. Yes, but I think that making it quarterly would reduce this anyhow. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant,

Re: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-15 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
s (if it originates at Apache). If you want to get it off the ground, MHO is to start looking for a sponsoring PMC and work with them. TLP will come /eventually/ later, maybe after 6 months, on year, two years, or never. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: Apache Newsletter [Re: Jakarta Newsletter Issue 9 -- May-June 2003]

2003-07-14 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
? Oh well... -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) - --

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

2003-07-10 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
month is not a big deal in any case. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) - -

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

2003-07-10 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
sh it here on [EMAIL PROTECTED] As always, I'll help with the projects I'm on :-) -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions ge

Re: WORA Considered Evil ;-)

2003-06-29 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
), even if we have multi-mega attachments for the technical drawings, but it can do all and it's easy and stable. I love it :-) -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussio

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-26 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
onder what the point is. Making a fix remain so. I can't remember how many times, without unit testing, the same error kept coming back. In OS it's even more necessary, as committers come and go... it's a way of writing down knowledge and keeping it there with the cod

Re: The cash of our lives / Dvorak

2003-06-11 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
it is, IMO, a poor excuse for throwing away useful information. Bah. Use Subversion. :-) Release the baby! ;-) -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains

Re: Apache Wiki defaced

2003-06-07 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
e face. I think that the rule must change ASAP to use passwords, even if they only have to be requested to the respective PMC. :,-( -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just co

Re: How BSD hurts OpenSource

2003-05-14 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
t surprises me is that AFAIK the GPL prevents closing the source not to prevent profitability, which instead is the main aim AFAIK of many that now choose GPL. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussi

Re: How BSD hurts OpenSource

2003-05-14 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
he thinks about the "publicity" cause in the Apache License, that makes it "incompatible" with GNU, it's really amusing. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent -

How BSD hurts OpenSource

2003-05-13 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
you still consider BSD more beneficial to OSS than GNU, please have at least READ their software licenses before contacting me. " *sigh* -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, ju

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

2003-02-28 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
he ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (James) Noel J. Bergman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (Ruper) Nick Chalko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (Version) Adam Jack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (XML) Ted Leung ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (Gump)Nicola Ken Barozzi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Please remove yourselves or add and edit at pleasure. C

Re: Suggestion...

2003-02-14 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
. First, let's have in the incubator pages with all the links to the resources on Apache sites. then let's make a common document and ask those projects to review it and eventually switch to linking that. One by one. Step by step. :-) -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL

Re: licensing issues and jars in Avalon

2003-02-11 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
d /GPL/ buildtools, is it different? Would it have to ask permission of the developer to download given that it's GPL (ie making it clear)? I'm asking it again because we are talking about buildtools here, not jars used in the compilation, runtime, or linked in any

Re: [poll] weblog package on apache.org

2003-01-29 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
items for themselves and have them come out as RSS feeds. RSS feeds are IMHO the first step in provifing an aggregated view of project news. It's a trivial thing to do actually, just a simple xsl stylesheet. Anyone can put it in their favorite site publishing tool. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi

Re: [poll] weblog package on apache.org

2003-01-29 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
ation, the blood of all blogs. I'm going to add soon a news.xml file so that projects can add news items for themselves and have them come out as RSS feeds. Ok, this palliative is not real blogging, but probably kind of solves part of the *need* that brings projects to ask for blogging. -- Nic

Re: ASF use of Instant Messaging

2003-01-15 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
nd birth of new ideas or quick problem solving, not to discuss things at lengths. Anyway, IMHO there are so many free IMs systems available that till it becomes a problem we can use those with no problem. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant,

Re: Tapestry incubation

2003-01-05 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
[1] http://tapestry.sourceforge.net [2] http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?TapestryProposal Tapestry is a component-based web framework. Its created by a great group of guys whom I have a lot of respect for. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, script

Re: Apache Trove

2002-12-11 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Steven Noels wrote: Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: I'm looking into making these published via Gump, taking a parallel route to the one Steven has taken. We'll soon see the solution and work together on it. I have been background talking with Sam and moved towards using Gump as a datas

Re: Apache Trove

2002-12-10 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
oute to the one Steven has taken. We'll soon see the solution and work together on it. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) -

Re: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-02 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
g acess to Apache resources at all. Find me a personal page that has that problem and I'll agree with you. P.S. There are about 590 people with commit right now! -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) -

Re: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-12-01 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
kes people that are using their home dir as an Apache project-related stuff dashboard continue as such and add personal info if/when they want to to the subdir. +1 -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) -

Re: Ryan and Kelly: It's a Girl!

2002-11-29 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
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Re: [proposal] creation of communitity.apache.org

2002-11-27 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Dear ASF citizens, I would like to propose the creation of the 'community.apache.org' web site. [...] Please place your vote. +1 -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten,

Re: @apache web pages

2002-11-12 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
you ;-P http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=alexandria-dev&m=101678966312036&w=2 /Nicola Ken:/ Ok, now how do I get the POI site to get updated? /Stefan Bodewig:/ As soon as Sam feels the stuff is ready for him to give it a try. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: @apache web pages

2002-11-12 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
this once before and there wasn't much support but maybe it could be looked at again. I'm working into it. Actually I have changes and todos available as RSS feeds on my machine, and will commit soon :-) -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Java C++ developers needed in Switzerland

2002-11-09 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
him if of interest. Kind regards Jon - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED

New Jakarta Logo, Apache affiliation now clear

2002-11-06 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
http://jakarta.apache.org/images/jakarta-logo-blue.gif -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) -

Re: Common XML Project descriptor ( Re: Subtle barriers to entry )

2002-11-06 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Peter Donald wrote: On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 11:58, Daniel Rall wrote: Nicola Ken Barozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter Donald wrote: Secondly make it so each project can have multiple vcs entrys (ie Avalon and it's 6 or 7, turbine with the same). Hmmm... this descriptor should

Re: Common XML Project descriptor ( Re: Subtle barriers to entry )

2002-11-06 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Daniel Rall wrote: Nicola Ken Barozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter Donald wrote: Hi, Firstly rename bugtrack to issuetracker as many projects use the issue tracker to store enhancement requests. Hmmm, how about: http://..."/> http://..."/> Naw, just about ever

Re: Common XML Project descriptor ( Re: Subtle barriers to entry )

2002-11-06 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Costin Manolache wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 16:45, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Costin Manolache wrote: [...] Sounds good. What about the root element :-) ? It has been asked by many to change the root element to , and the to (or similar), but it should be made to work with both semantics, for

Re: Common XML Project descriptor ( Re: Subtle barriers to entry )

2002-11-06 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Costin Manolache wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 16:03, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Costin Manolache wrote: Can someone summarize what's wrong with the gump descriptor used by all jakarta and xml projects ? I understand we may need to add more stuff ( maybe using some ns: ), but I don&#x

Re: Common XML Project descriptor ( Re: Subtle barriers to entry )

2002-11-06 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
oads/releases right In the future it would be great if we linked to task/scheduling software but there is nothing in opensource land that I can see. And most of the good ones (ie Jira) are heavily linked into issuetracking and/or vcs. With the element it should be included already. Good tips, thanks

Re: Common XML Project descriptor ( Re: Subtle barriers to entry )

2002-11-06 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
s just easier for Maven to add the elements in the Gump plugin? -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) -

Re: Common XML Project descriptor ( Re: Subtle barriers to entry )

2002-11-05 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
With the above descriptor, we can create both a centralized page with the summaries for all projects *and* project summary pages. Actually, I also started with the status.xml format also, to be able for all to see what's going on easily in every project, in a *centralized* way

Common XML Project descriptor ( Re: Subtle barriers to entry )

2002-11-05 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: >>Personally I prefer to have two files: one describes the project, and it >>stays basically fixed; the other is more dynamic and changes frequently. >> >>_projectinfo.xml_ >> >>- goals >>- credits >>- license >>- re

Re: [general] proposal and status documents

2002-11-05 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
ml, on the community@apache.org list, let's see if we can hammer out something. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) -

Re: Subtle barriers to entry

2002-11-04 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
tings ? Comments? -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) -

Re: Subtle barriers to entry

2002-11-04 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
it here and lay out all the things that should be in this file(s), and see how they currently map to these formats. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) -

Apology for messing the vote count about the "Ant to top-level" proposal

2002-11-04 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
areful in collecting votes in the future, sorry :-/ -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) -

Re: Man, it's quiet here

2002-10-26 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
s and Stefano's postings did not really reach all the committers out there ;-( Or, most people just want to be left alone to write code. :-) Amen :) And remain committers without wanting to becoming members; they just can't stand these time-consuming "politics"