[ANNOUNCEMENT] release of Anakia 1.0 and Texen 1.0

2007-05-06 Thread Will Glass-Husain
The Velocity developers are pleased to issue two new releases: Anakia 1.0and Texen 1.0. Anakia is an XML text transformation tool based on Apache Velocity and Apache Ant. It provides an alternative to using Ant's style task and XSL to process XML files. A common use of Anakia is to process xdoc

Re: Remove Author tags?

2007-05-06 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Nathan Bubna wrote: On 5/3/07, Henning P. Schmiedehausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, just sitting in Aarons' incubating open source communities talk and a subject that came up again is removing the author tags. I know, that in the past, I've been -1 on this but as we do have a CONTRIBUTORS

Re: Remove Author tags?

2007-05-06 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Nathan Bubna wrote: On 5/3/07, Ahmed Mohombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically removing all the @author tags from the velocity code base and docs and replacing it with 'Velocity development community' and a link to the dev-list. How about doing this? -1 from me as a user. In a lot of

[jira] Created: (VELOCITY-544) BooleanPropertyExecutor refers to primitive boolean not object Boolean

2007-05-06 Thread Will Glass-Husain (JIRA)
BooleanPropertyExecutor refers to primitive boolean not object Boolean -- Key: VELOCITY-544 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-544 Project: Velocity Issue

Re: Velocity User Guide

2007-05-06 Thread Will Glass-Husain
Hi Henning, I like the new icons much better. I'm going to print out the user's guide today and proof-read in detail. I didn't see anything on a casual reading. By the way, wouldn't it make more sense to include the source for this in the Velocity Engine distro so that it can be on the same

Re: Remove Author tags?

2007-05-06 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Will Glass-Husain wrote: (Let me try this again) Thanks, Ted. That's a great email. I read it and drew a rather different conclusion. All the reasons cited make sense. sigh Will, don't you see some problems of logical cogency in the text that Ted Husted cited? I mean, at some point

[Velocity Wiki] Update of DebuggingWithinIde by WillGlassHusain

2007-05-06 Thread Apache Wiki
Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on Velocity Wiki for change notification. The following page has been changed by WillGlassHusain: http://wiki.apache.org/velocity/DebuggingWithinIde The comment on the change is: new doc New page: Many of our developers wish

Re: Remove Author tags?

2007-05-06 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: Will Glass-Husain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm mostly neutral, though a slight preference for keeping them. I kind of like the way the author tags highlight (at a very coarse level) the history of a class. But I don't feel strongly. What's the primary

Re: Remove Author tags?

2007-05-06 Thread Jason Pettiss
Wow is it really that time of year already? It's time for the Annual Revusky Flamewar! Yay! Jonathan: they're talking about removing the @author tags because, as you guessed, there IS an international conspiracy! But what you don't know is you're the center of it all!!! This goes beyond

Re: Remove Author tags?

2007-05-06 Thread Jason Pettiss
I agree the @author tags discussion is idiotic but it's not my list. Nor is it yours. Be curious about motivations if you like but in that case just email the people you want to talk to. I have to follow this list, because I do use Velocity, and have modified it for my own purposes. The

Re: Remove Author tags?

2007-05-06 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Jason Pettiss wrote: I agree the @author tags discussion is idiotic but it's not my list. Nor is it yours. Be curious about motivations if you like but in that case just email the people you want to talk to. I have to follow this list, because I do use Velocity, and have modified it for my

Re: Remove Author tags?

2007-05-06 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Jason Pettiss wrote: Aye, it's an open list, say what you want. I will too. The features that have been ignored for so long are features I didn't even want supported in the first place. The bugs I needed fixed, were fixed. Jason, we've had some private dialogue, which kind of degenerated. I

Re: Remove Author tags?

2007-05-06 Thread Daniel Dekany
Monday, May 7, 2007, 4:37:53 AM, Jonathan Revusky wrote: Well, I dunno. Why does a guy sit on a bike, wearing the culotte and other cyclist paraphernalia, when he doesn't even like cycling? I don't know, maybe it's that the starting was already wrong. If I know well, basically, Velocity was

Re: Remove Author tags?

2007-05-06 Thread Jason Pettiss
I suppose I could fittingly add I'm rubber, you're glue, I use Velocity and not FreeMarker so too bad for you. But I won't. oh wait. Daniel Dekany wrote: Monday, May 7, 2007, 4:37:53 AM, Jonathan Revusky wrote: Well, I dunno. Why does a guy sit on a bike, wearing the culotte and other