Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-25 Thread Raphaël Luta
Andrew Clark wrote: Raphaël Luta wrote: - no source control access We have read-only CVS access[1] already for the entire project. The details should definitely be more visible, though. I'll talk to someone about getting it more prominent on the main site. I missed the link. It

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-25 Thread Craig L Russell
On Jan 25, 2006, at 12:24 AM, Raphaël Luta wrote: As far I can tell, what needs to happen to fully OSS AjaxTk is something like this: - cleanup the code/doc/install so that Tk can be consumed   by a public communityIt seems to me that something that works in some cases but isn't fully developed as

RE: ajax proposal?

2006-01-25 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Raphaël Luta wrote: As far I can tell, what needs to happen to fully OSS AjaxTk is something like this: - cleanup the code/doc/install I would expect that at worst those would be early doings during Incubation. - rework a clear internal separation between AjaxTk and ZCS - adjust internal

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-24 Thread Raphaël Luta
Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 13:38 +0100, Raphaël Luta wrote: Seeing Zimbra current OSS efforts with this toolkit (even with an ASF member in their team), I have a hard time believing this proposal is anything but a branding exercise to help this toolkit stand out in the

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-24 Thread Raphaël Luta
Andrew Clark wrote: Raphaël Luta wrote: Seeing Zimbra current OSS efforts with this toolkit (even with an ASF member in their team), I have a hard time believing this proposal is anything but a branding exercise to help this toolkit stand out in the crowd of Ajax toolkits. Thanks for

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-24 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
Hi Raphael, I would agree with this if there was no immediate percieved benefit when you are in Incubator, unfortunately it seems projects under incubation are still perceived by the larger community as endorsed by Apache. If that's indeed the problem then we need to work on clearing up that

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-24 Thread Sam Ruby
Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: What's the status of the vote? I'm confused by calls to repeal the vote and modifications to the vote and all that. I thought we were spsed to be a simple bunch of, um, people but it sure doesn't look like it! ;-) Overview of what occurred: 1) on 12/20, Adam Peller

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-24 Thread Andrew Clark
Raphaël Luta wrote: I completely understand that you're not a toolkit company however I can't understand why the AjaxTk is currently in such a sore open-source state: - the code dumps on the site are not functional out of the box To be precise, all of the toolkit (widgets, utils, etc) are

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-23 Thread Raphaël Luta
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Raphaël Luta wrote: Do we have other incubating projects following the Kabuki pattern, ie all initial committers from a single company with the mentor salaried by the same company ? I'd sure like to know how these evolved if we have any. Hmm ... I'd have to check,

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-23 Thread Andrew Clark
Raphaël Luta wrote: Seeing Zimbra current OSS efforts with this toolkit (even with an ASF member in their team), I have a hard time believing this proposal is anything but a branding exercise to help this toolkit stand out in the crowd of Ajax toolkits. The Zimbra product owes much of

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-23 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 13:38 +0100, Raphaël Luta wrote: Seeing Zimbra current OSS efforts with this toolkit (even with an ASF member in their team), I have a hard time believing this proposal is anything but a branding exercise to help this toolkit stand out in the crowd of Ajax toolkits.

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-22 Thread Raphaël Luta
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Raphaël Luta wrote: do you really feel comfortable when the main point of oversight for the ASF in an incubated project is in the pay of the project sponsor and quite possibly internally reporting to one of the project committer ? The potential for conflict is huge and

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-22 Thread Raphaël Luta
Roy T. Fielding wrote: On Jan 19, 2006, at 12:36 AM, Raphaël Luta wrote: We're doing loops here. My point in this thread is that initial code quality does matter in a code grant incubation because it is often burdened by backward compatibility with existing applications and thus major

RE: ajax proposal?

2006-01-22 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Raphaël Luta wrote: Do we have other incubating projects following the Kabuki pattern, ie all initial committers from a single company with the mentor salaried by the same company ? I'd sure like to know how these evolved if we have any. Hmm ... I'd have to check, but XMLBeans, Beehive and

RE: ajax proposal?

2006-01-21 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Raphaël Luta wrote: do you really feel comfortable when the main point of oversight for the ASF in an incubated project is in the pay of the project sponsor and quite possibly internally reporting to one of the project committer ? The potential for conflict is huge and I would personnally

RE: ajax proposal?

2006-01-19 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Martin, Given that nobody else seems to share my views on the architecture I think that many of us are still waiting for some details, other than the namespace. or on the effect of the ASF brand on the AJAX world So we should pre-select projects for Incubation based upon whether or not the

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-19 Thread Raphaël Luta
Le 19 janv. 06 à 02:57, Noel J. Bergman a écrit : Raphaël Luta wrote: I thought it would be safe to assume that Zimbra collaboration suite uses the AjaxTk. If it doesn't then I'm even more worried about that codebase ;) Why? Because then I would have to reconsider the orphaned product

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-19 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Jan 19, 2006, at 12:18 AM, Raphaël Luta wrote: Le 19 janv. 06 à 03:03, Noel J. Bergman a écrit : Raphaël Luta wrote: What specific concerns do you have with this community and this codebase? - the mentor for this project is salaried by the project sponsor ! To date, we have said that

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-19 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Jan 19, 2006, at 12:36 AM, Raphaël Luta wrote: We're doing loops here. My point in this thread is that initial code quality does matter in a code grant incubation because it is often burdened by backward compatibility with existing applications and thus major restructure may require a

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-18 Thread Raphaël Luta
Sam Ruby wrote: Raphaël Luta wrote: Erik Abele wrote: It's just the initial code, nothing more :) I don't agree with this statement. The code itself is indeed only the initial codebase but along with this codebase come an established group of committers with an interest in keeping their

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-18 Thread Raphaël Luta
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Raphaël Luta wrote: along with [a] codebase come an established group of committers with an interest in keeping their current architecture or at least backward compatibility That carries a fairly large assumption, and really should be posed as a question, not an

RE: ajax proposal?

2006-01-18 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Raphaël Luta wrote: I thought it would be safe to assume that Zimbra collaboration suite uses the AjaxTk. If it doesn't then I'm even more worried about that codebase ;) Why? An established codebase is *much* more difficult to restructure than starting from scratch. Apache SOAP - Apache

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-17 Thread Raphaël Luta
Erik Abele wrote: Oh, of course - but for now there's no community yet so he is complaining into the blue sky :) I'd certainly like to see a response to the concerns raised by Martin but OTOH I don't think that it should evolve into a discussion about basic architectural principles or

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-17 Thread Sam Ruby
Raphaël Luta wrote: Erik Abele wrote: Oh, of course - but for now there's no community yet so he is complaining into the blue sky :) I'd certainly like to see a response to the concerns raised by Martin but OTOH I don't think that it should evolve into a discussion about basic

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-17 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 14:27, Martin Cooper wrote: And the impact of giving a project the ASF brand. And the way the incubator operates as an open door to whoever knocks, with virtually no entry criteria. This seems to be a recurring (growing?) concern among people 'inside' ASF. Perhaps

RE: ajax proposal?

2006-01-17 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Martin Cooper wrote: the incubator operates as an open door to whoever knocks, with virtually no entry criteria. The criteria is that another PMC votes or the Incubator PMC votes. In the latter case, we should be looking to see interest from the Membership. In numerous cases, I can think of

RE: ajax proposal?

2006-01-17 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Raphaël Luta wrote: along with [a] codebase come an established group of committers with an interest in keeping their current architecture or at least backward compatibility That carries a fairly large assumption, and really should be posed as a question, not an answer. An established

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-16 Thread Andrew Clark
implementation to fall into our laps. That's my two yen. - Original Message - From: Martin Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: general@incubator.apache.org Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 9:06:50 PM Subject: Re: ajax proposal? On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 14:36

RE: ajax proposal?

2006-01-16 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Andrew Clark wrote: I thought the whole purpose of the Incubator was to allow potential code time to breathe and its respective community to get some legs behind it. Yes. People seem to be viewing proposals as if they were ready to leave the Incubator, not just ready to enter it.

RE: ajax proposal?

2006-01-16 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Martin Cooper wrote: I *care* about the quality of what we build here at the ASF. [X] can very easily cause problems when [...] I have no problem with either of the above (redacted) sentences. However, the answer, in my view, is not to wait for X to become perfected elsewhere. Rather, if

RE: ajax proposal?

2006-01-16 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Upayavira wrote: Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: Hopefully before graduation we'll get a couple more AJAX projects coming in and getting all married together or co-existing/competing under the same TLP umbrella. And surely it doesn't make sense to have multiple (potentially competing) AJAX

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-16 Thread Martin Cooper
On 1/16/06, Noel J. Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Cooper wrote: I *care* about the quality of what we build here at the ASF. [X] can very easily cause problems when [...] I have no problem with either of the above (redacted) sentences. However, the answer, in my view, is not

RE: ajax proposal?

2006-01-16 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Martin Cooper wrote: Noel J. Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't believe that the ASF should be a place for crowning staid and mature projects. I would like to see continued innovation here, too. I agree with you. Unfortunately, from what I've seen from looking at Zimbra, it's

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-16 Thread Martin Marinschek
I'd be very happy to have a discussion on technical points as well. regards, Martin On 1/16/06, Noel J. Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Cooper wrote: Noel J. Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't believe that the ASF should be a place for crowning staid and mature projects.

RE: ajax proposal?

2006-01-16 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Martin Cooper wrote: whether I get involved with the Zimbra toolkit, and try to help them see the light, I need to make a personal decision between putting my energy into that, here at the ASF, or putting it into a non-ASF project that is already on the right track. I know I don't have the

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-16 Thread Martin Cooper
On 1/16/06, Noel J. Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Cooper wrote: whether I get involved with the Zimbra toolkit, and try to help them see the light, I need to make a personal decision between putting my energy into that, here at the ASF, or putting it into a non-ASF project

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-16 Thread Erik Abele
On 17.01.2006, at 00:02, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Martin Cooper wrote: whether I get involved with the Zimbra toolkit, and try to help them see the light, I need to make a personal decision between putting my energy into that, here at the ASF, or putting it into a non-ASF project that is

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-16 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 09:18, Erik Abele wrote: Seriously, I don't understand why you are talking about code maturity here - IMO this isn't and shouldn't be one of the incubators concerns - you are here to discuss legal stuff, community issues, mentors and the Apache Way, no? Bingo!

RE: ajax proposal?

2006-01-16 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Erik Abele wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: FWIW, I would want to see your technical concerns addressed before graduation, but so far, we have had little if any discussion of what those tecnical issues really are, or so it seems from the archives. Remember that it's about the community

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-16 Thread Erik Abele
On 17.01.2006, at 03:04, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Erik Abele wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: FWIW, I would want to see your technical concerns addressed before graduation, but so far, we have had little if any discussion of what those tecnical issues really are, or so it seems from the archives.

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-16 Thread Martin Cooper
On 1/16/06, Erik Abele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17.01.2006, at 00:02, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Martin Cooper wrote: whether I get involved with the Zimbra toolkit, and try to help them see the light, I need to make a personal decision between putting my energy into that, here at the

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-15 Thread Martin Cooper
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Martin Cooper wrote: On 1/4/06, Sanjiva Weerawarana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So .. amidst all of our soul searching .. what'd we decide to do with the Ajax proposal from IBM et al.?? Did I miss the vote and decision

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-15 Thread Martin Cooper
/06, Dirk-Willem van Gulik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Martin Cooper wrote: On 1/4/06, Sanjiva Weerawarana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So .. amidst all of our soul searching .. what'd we decide to do with the Ajax proposal from IBM et al.?? Did I miss the vote and decision

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-15 Thread Martin Cooper
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Jan 5, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: Martin Cooper wrote: On 1/4/06, Sanjiva Weerawarana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So .. amidst all of our soul searching .. what'd we decide to do with the Ajax proposal from IBM et al.?? Did I miss the vote

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-07 Thread Upayavira
Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 14:36 -0500, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Jan 5, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: Sanjiva and I have experience with Apache SOAP. Two rewrites later, and there is a thriving community working on Apache Axis2. The goal here is not to crown

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-06 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 14:36 -0500, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Jan 5, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: Sanjiva and I have experience with Apache SOAP. Two rewrites later, and there is a thriving community working on Apache Axis2. The goal here is not to crown anything, but to provide the

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-05 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Martin Cooper wrote: On 1/4/06, Sanjiva Weerawarana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So .. amidst all of our soul searching .. what'd we decide to do with the Ajax proposal from IBM et al.?? Did I miss the vote and decision?? .. Personally, I would prefer that the ASF

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-05 Thread Martin Marinschek
.. amidst all of our soul searching .. what'd we decide to do with the Ajax proposal from IBM et al.?? Did I miss the vote and decision?? .. Personally, I would prefer that the ASF not accept _any_ AJAX framework at this point in time. The area is relatively new and in a great deal of flux

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-05 Thread Sam Ruby
Martin Cooper wrote: On 1/4/06, Sanjiva Weerawarana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So .. amidst all of our soul searching .. what'd we decide to do with the Ajax proposal from IBM et al.?? Did I miss the vote and decision?? I don't believe there is a sponsoring PMC at this point. Once we have

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-05 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jan 5, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: Martin Cooper wrote: On 1/4/06, Sanjiva Weerawarana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So .. amidst all of our soul searching .. what'd we decide to do with the Ajax proposal from IBM et al.?? Did I miss the vote and decision?? I don't believe

ajax proposal?

2006-01-04 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
So .. amidst all of our soul searching .. what'd we decide to do with the Ajax proposal from IBM et al.?? Did I miss the vote and decision?? Sanjiva. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-04 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On January 5, 2006 4:32:46 AM +0600 Sanjiva Weerawarana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So .. amidst all of our soul searching .. what'd we decide to do with the Ajax proposal from IBM et al.?? Did I miss the vote and decision?? Noe one has called for a vote. -- justin

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-04 Thread Martin Cooper
On 1/4/06, Sanjiva Weerawarana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So .. amidst all of our soul searching .. what'd we decide to do with the Ajax proposal from IBM et al.?? Did I miss the vote and decision?? I don't believe there is a sponsoring PMC at this point. Personally, I would prefer

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-04 Thread Dan Diephouse
Martin Cooper wrote: On 1/4/06, Sanjiva Weerawarana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So .. amidst all of our soul searching .. what'd we decide to do with the Ajax proposal from IBM et al.?? Did I miss the vote and decision?? I don't believe there is a sponsoring PMC at this point

RE: ajax proposal?

2006-01-04 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Dan Diephouse wrote: Martin Cooper wrote: Personally, I would prefer that the ASF not accept _any_ AJAX framework at this point in time. The area is relatively new and in a great deal of flux right now, and crowning one of them with the ASF brand will create a de facto standard instead

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-04 Thread Martin Cooper
On 1/4/06, Dan Diephouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Cooper wrote: On 1/4/06, Sanjiva Weerawarana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So .. amidst all of our soul searching .. what'd we decide to do with the Ajax proposal from IBM et al.?? Did I miss the vote and decision?? I don't

Re: ajax proposal?

2006-01-04 Thread Martin Cooper
On 1/4/06, Noel J. Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Diephouse wrote: Martin Cooper wrote: Personally, I would prefer that the ASF not accept _any_ AJAX framework at this point in time. The area is relatively new and in a great deal of flux right now, and crowning one of them