Re: Jakarta Status [was Code conventions]

2002-01-05 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Jon Scott Stevens wrote: on 1/4/02 4:20 PM, Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They aren't even comparable, are they? Of course not. No, I agree, I was just teasing :) http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/dvsl/ When DVSL is integrated into Turbine's presentation layer

Re: On unity and coherence [was Re: [Request For Comment] POI @ apache]

2002-01-05 Thread Sam Ruby
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: In my mind, all this long trail of thoughs yields the following equation: metacommunity size * community coherence * individual freedom = constant in result, if we unify the two projects, we double the size of the metacommunity and we must pay the price of

Re: On unity and coherence [was Re: [Request For Comment] POI @ apache]

2002-01-05 Thread Micael Padraig Og mac Grene
At 10:40 AM 1/5/02 -0500, you wrote: I would also like to personally commend Jon with his efforts to better document Jakarta. He has put a lot into the Web site (probably 90%), and we all owe him a great debt. -Ted. Despite Jon's candid remarks, as you put it, Ted, I too would like him to

Re: Code conventions

2002-01-05 Thread Gunnar Rønning
* Paulo Gaspar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | It could even happen in the USA and it is quite dangerous to think | otherwise (because then you are not alert). Well, I would argue that it is happening in the US now with the new military courts. -- Gunnar Rønning - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior

RE: [Request For Comment] POI @ apache

2002-01-05 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Hi Paulo, IMO Andrew puts the finger on why POI is only used on a server. good! One of my 2 interests (the other is indexing) on POI is exactly the typical one he describes: - I want to be able build Word and Excel documents on a Web Server without going back to use MS IIS and COM

Re: On unity and coherence [was Re: [Request For Comment] POI @ apache]

2002-01-05 Thread Chris Duprat
Hello, Each structure has a cost depending on his level of organization. I think there is today to many project in the jakarta and the xml project. I feel confuse about finding the right information at the right place. And I think it's high time to merge xml and jakarta. The way java is

Re: On unity and coherence [was Re: [Request For Comment] POI @ apache]

2002-01-05 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 15:31 05.01.2002 +0100, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: [Snip] In my mind, all this long trail of thoughs yields the following equation: metacommunity size * community coherence * individual freedom = constant This equation is misleading. Coherence and individual freedom are not inversely

Re: On unity and coherence [was Re: [Request For Comment] POI @ apache]

2002-01-05 Thread Ceki Gülcü
Chris, I think you are confusing project categorization with project community. These things are very much unrelated. Regards, Ceki At 23:44 05.01.2002 +0100, you wrote: Hello, Each structure has a cost depending on his level of organization. I think there is today to many project in the

Re: On unity and coherence [was Re: [Request For Comment] POI @ apache]

2002-01-05 Thread Sam Ruby
Ceki Gülcü wrote: IMHO, XML does not and will never have a community as long as two of its most important projects directly compete with each other. The success of one is related with the failure of the other. XML Community? Won't happen in a million years. How the did Crimson become an

Re: On unity and coherence [was Re: [Request For Comment] POI @ apache]

2002-01-05 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 18:02 05.01.2002 -0500, you wrote: Ceki Gülcü wrote: IMHO, XML does not and will never have a community as long as two of its most important projects directly compete with each other. The success of one is related with the failure of the other. XML Community? Won't happen in a million

Re: On unity and coherence [was Re: [Request For Comment] POI @apache]

2002-01-05 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/5/02 3:02 PM, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look closely, Xerces 2 is the designated successor to *both* Xerces 1 and Crimson. The developers *are* working together. I won't pretend that everything is 100% smooth sailing, but significant progress is being made. Yea...just like

Re: On unity and coherence [was Re: [Request For Comment] POI @apache]

2002-01-05 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Not that I should have much of a role in this discussion but I'd like to contribute some thoughts stemming from an offline discussion I had. I think this discussion is still missing the point. There are a lot of outsider articles on what is wrong with Apache these days, most of them refer to

RE: On unity and coherence [was Re: [Request For Comment] POI @apache]

2002-01-05 Thread Paulo Gaspar
Biting the bait: Maybe you and me are following different lists Jon. AFAIK there is cooperation between Tomcat 3x and Tomcat 4x people. I sure hope we will have a Tomcat 4 at least as nice to use as 3.3 is at the moment. I am sure that most Tomcat 3.x users will upgrade as soon as they feel

RE: On unity and coherence [was Re: [Request For Comment] POI @apache]

2002-01-05 Thread Paulo Gaspar
Hi Andrew, Before trying to organizize too much how Open Source development works, maybe you should consider that impositions of organization and discipline could kill the Golden Eggs Chicken. I can not express this POV better than Linus did in posts reported by this article:

Re: On unity and coherence [was Re: [Request For Comment] POI @apache]

2002-01-05 Thread Ted Husted
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: It's my understanding that Apache Projects' unity of purpose is to encourage a collaborative, consensus-based development process What does that exactly mean? Perhaps Stefano's original preamble said it best http://java.apache.org/main/constitution.html

Re: On unity and coherence [was Re: [Request For Comment] POI@apache]

2002-01-05 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
On 1/5/02 7:28 PM, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not trying to be combative - I have watched this thread (and participated) with growing discomfort. I have to say that I think that bringing XML and Jakarta together might destroy the thing we are supposedly trying to 'save' (again, I

Re: More abuse of coding styles...

2002-01-05 Thread Peter Donald
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 11:26, Steve Downey wrote: Your javac has a configuration setting for the class names of inner classes? Although the inner classes use a $ embedded, rather than as a lead character. It's a similar issue. And whats that got to do with the price of fish? $ is not valid in

Re: On unity and coherence [was Re: [Request For Comment] POI @apache]

2002-01-05 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 1/5/02 9:53 PM, Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/5/02 7:28 PM, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not trying to be combative - I have watched this thread (and participated) with growing discomfort. I have to say that I think that bringing XML and Jakarta together

Re: On unity and coherence [was Re: [Request For Comment] POI @apache]

2002-01-05 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
Playing Devil's advocate. I think it's fair to push back on adding things to Jakarta... On 1/5/02 9:53 PM, Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please read these posts and then tell me where you're not clear? http://www.mail-archive.com/general%40jakarta.apache.org/msg02681.html

RE: More abuse of coding styles...

2002-01-05 Thread Steve Downey
-Original Message- From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 9:53 PM To: Jakarta General List Subject: Re: More abuse of coding styles... On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 11:26, Steve Downey wrote: Your javac has a configuration setting for the class

Re: More abuse of coding styles...

2002-01-05 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 1/5/02 11:22 PM, Steve Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In what way does it make it acceptable for them to write poor code? For example, the JSP spec reserves _jsp, jsp, _jspx and jspx for identifiers used in the classes generated by the page compiler. What other way do you propose to

Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-05 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
I was leafing through my copy of A Pattern Language by Alexander, Ishikawa and Silverstein, which is really about architecture of human habitat (buildings and environs), and ran across some interesting assertions about society and groups. I haven't read the book end to end, as I just pick it up