Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure [version 2]

2008-08-20 Thread Reinhard Pötz
After our recent discussions, here is my reworked proposal: Versioning --- Cocoon 3 will follow the alpha/beta/rc release scheme (like Mozilla, Maven, Apache Commons, etc.). The first release will be 3.0-alpha-1. This will be a clear marker that is already visible

Re: Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure [version 2]

2008-08-20 Thread Peter Hunsberger
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Reinhard Pötz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After our recent discussions, here is my reworked proposal: snipGood looking proposal/snip Or do I need a vote before? If so I will start the voting process asap. Any opinions? I think you should run a vote, if only

Differences between Cocoon 2.1 and 2.2 (was: Re: Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure)

2008-08-19 Thread Grzegorz Kossakowski
Hi Jeremy, Jeremy Quinn pisze: From the PoV of users, it should also be clear : If you want or have to use Ant, use 2.1 If you want or have to use Maven, use 2.2 If you just need the Pipeline API, use 3.0 I'm not sure if I get you here correctly so I'll ask: Do you express your own wish or

Re: Differences between Cocoon 2.1 and 2.2 (was: Re: Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure)

2008-08-19 Thread Jeremy Quinn
Hi Grzegorz, Many thanks for your response : ) On 19 Aug 2008, at 12:54, Grzegorz Kossakowski wrote: Hi Jeremy, Jeremy Quinn pisze: From the PoV of users, it should also be clear : If you want or have to use Ant, use 2.1 If you want or have to use Maven, use 2.2 If you just need the

Re: Differences between Cocoon 2.1 and 2.2 (was: Re: Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure)

2008-08-19 Thread Jeremy Quinn
Just an added note On 19 Aug 2008, at 16:04, Jeremy Quinn wrote: It would be typical to assume (IMHO) that 3.0 is somehow better than 2.2 which is somehow better than 2.1, just because of the version numbers. This assumption is so easy to make, because for instance : 2.1 was better

Re: Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure

2008-08-18 Thread Grzegorz Kossakowski
Sylvain Wallez pisze: I would say the contrary. Let's not forget that most of our users aren't hard-core developers (they love Cocoon because they can do complex stuff without programming) and they aren't used to this odd/even versioning scheme that comes from the Linux kernel. Rather than

Re: Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure

2008-08-18 Thread Grzegorz Kossakowski
Grzegorz Kossakowski pisze: Stated clearly, I have fears that just as Maven almost killed the developer community for 2.2, announcing a 3.0 now will kill the user community. Sylvain, pardon my ignorance but what kind of real problems with Maven we have _now_ in Cocoon's trunk? I can

Re: Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure

2008-08-18 Thread Rainer Pruy
Just another 0.01€ in the same direction: most developing users (esp. the ones developing cocoon itself) would qualify as hackers. Those are used to associate special meanings with groups of version numbers as a number of other projects follow similar rules (e.g. Linux for long used that

Re: Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure

2008-08-18 Thread Jeremy Quinn
Dear Grzegorz I was just in the process of flaming the bejesus out of you for what you just said! Without a whole bunch of very smart 'old-timers' like Sylvain, there would be no Cocoon. The Ant versus Maven controversy has already caused too much disaffection in this project, IMHO.

Re: Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure

2008-08-18 Thread Jeremy Quinn
Dear All On 17 Aug 2008, at 18:41, Sylvain Wallez wrote: Also, I haven't voted for the renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 as I was on vacation, but I really think this is too early. Cocoon 2.2 is just out and we announce a 3.0. This will most probably lead people to consider 2.2 as a

Re: Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure

2008-08-18 Thread Reinhard Pötz
Sylvain Wallez wrote: Reinhard Pötz wrote: Versioning --- For Cocoon 2 there have been proposals that all odd versions are development/alpha versions and all even versions are stable releases. I like this idea and propose that we follow this versioning schema

Re: Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure

2008-08-18 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Grzegorz Kossakowski wrote: Sylvain Wallez pisze: I would say the contrary. Let's not forget that most of our users aren't hard-core developers (they love Cocoon because they can do complex stuff without programming) and they aren't used to this odd/even versioning scheme that comes from

Re: Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure

2008-08-18 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Grzegorz Kossakowski wrote: Grzegorz Kossakowski pisze: Stated clearly, I have fears that just as Maven almost killed the developer community for 2.2, announcing a 3.0 now will kill the user community. Sylvain, pardon my ignorance but what kind of real problems with Maven we have _now_ in

Re: Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure

2008-08-18 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Reinhard Pötz wrote: Sylvain Wallez wrote: Reinhard Pötz wrote: Versioning --- For Cocoon 2 there have been proposals that all odd versions are development/alpha versions and all even versions are stable releases. I like this idea and propose that we

Re: Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure

2008-08-18 Thread Reinhard Pötz
Sylvain Wallez wrote: Reinhard Pötz wrote: Sylvain Wallez wrote: Reinhard Pötz wrote: Versioning --- For Cocoon 2 there have been proposals that all odd versions are development/alpha versions and all even versions are stable releases. I like this idea

Re: Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure

2008-08-18 Thread Grzegorz Kossakowski
Sylvain Wallez pisze: I can't say what problems there are _now_ since I don't build Cocoon anymore. Hopefully it works now, and I was referring to the past: when the move to Maven was started, the 2.2 build was mostly broken for months, which drained an incredible amount of energy away from

Re: Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure

2008-08-18 Thread Grzegorz Kossakowski
Reinhard Pötz pisze: As I wrote on my blog, I think that Cocoon has to change fundamentally (focus on RESTful services, layered architecture and reuse in every Java environment) in order to survive in the medium to long term. Staying with Cocoon 2.x will mostly please already existing users but

Re: Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure

2008-08-18 Thread Reinhard Pötz
Reinhard Pötz wrote: Sylvain Wallez wrote: Reinhard Pötz wrote: Sylvain Wallez wrote: Reinhard Pötz wrote: Versioning --- For Cocoon 2 there have been proposals that all odd versions are development/alpha versions and all even versions are stable

Re: Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure

2008-08-18 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Grzegorz Kossakowski wrote: Sylvain Wallez pisze: I can't say what problems there are _now_ since I don't build Cocoon anymore. Hopefully it works now, and I was referring to the past: when the move to Maven was started, the 2.2 build was mostly broken for months, which drained an incredible

Re: Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure

2008-08-18 Thread Ralph Goers
Sylvain Wallez wrote: By chronic disease, I was referring to Maven. And it's not specific to Cocoon, but to many other projects. Maven has brought one new brillant idea to the Java world, which is artifact repositories (note though that Linux repositories have existed for a very long

Re: Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure

2008-08-18 Thread Carsten Ziegeler
Please, let's not get into the usual maven bashing threads. I'm tired of reading all the love and hate about maven over and over again. If someone thinks that the current system sucks *and* has time to try out new things, great. If not, let's keep the working system. Carsten -- Carsten Ziegeler

Re: Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure

2008-08-18 Thread Jeremy Quinn
Hi Carsten On 18 Aug 2008, at 16:41, Carsten Ziegeler wrote: Please, let's not get into the usual maven bashing threads. I'm tired of reading all the love and hate about maven over and over again. If someone thinks that the current system sucks *and* has time to try out new things, great.

Re: Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure

2008-08-18 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Ralph Goers wrote: Sylvain Wallez wrote: By chronic disease, I was referring to Maven. And it's not specific to Cocoon, but to many other projects. Maven has brought one new brillant idea to the Java world, which is artifact repositories (note though that Linux repositories have existed for

Re: Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure

2008-08-17 Thread Grzegorz Kossakowski
Reinhard Pötz pisze: Versioning --- For Cocoon 2 there have been proposals that all odd versions are development/alpha versions and all even versions are stable releases. I like this idea and propose that we follow this versioning schema in Cocoon 3: All 3.0.x

Re: Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure

2008-08-17 Thread Reinhard Pötz
Grzegorz Kossakowski wrote: Reinhard Pötz pisze: snip/ SVN --- I'm not sure about the new location in SVN. One option I can think of is http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cocoon/cocoon3-trunk, the other is http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cocoon/branches/cocoon-3

Re: Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure

2008-08-17 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Reinhard Pötz wrote: Versioning --- For Cocoon 2 there have been proposals that all odd versions are development/alpha versions and all even versions are stable releases. I like this idea and propose that we follow this versioning schema in Cocoon 3: All 3.0.x

Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure

2008-08-16 Thread Reinhard Pötz
Reinhard Pötz wrote: Reinhard Pötz wrote: Following the result of our recent discussion about the future of Corona, I propose Corona to become Cocoon 3. This means that any reference on Corona in source files, package names, artifact ids, group ids or anywhere else will be dropped and the

Re: Renaming Corona to Cocoon 3.0 and infrastructure

2008-08-16 Thread Ralph Goers
Reinhard Pötz wrote: . Versioning --- For Cocoon 2 there have been proposals that all odd versions are development/alpha versions and all even versions are stable releases. I like this idea and propose that we follow this versioning schema in Cocoon 3: All 3.0.x