Re: Jakarta: too many similar projects?

2003-03-11 Thread Doug Bateman
I would simply like to point out WHO is the specification lead of JSR-127 (see http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=127), and who was the initial author of Struts (see http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/volunteers.html)... Apache's concerns were Considering Sun's current position that JSRs may

Re: Jakarta: too many similar projects?

2003-03-11 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Note that Sun's JCP NDA agreements burn the second and third completely. And possibly the first (though i'm not a big fan of long standing deprecations.. ). -Andy Thanks Pier. I had wondered when someone would point this out. Having clarity on the facts is very important, because all too

Re: Jakarta: too many similar projects?

2003-03-11 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr .
On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 06:08 PM, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: Note that Sun's JCP NDA agreements burn the second and third completely. Utter nonsense. Are you saying that there's a dearth of innovation at apache? Or that Apache doesn't support strong communities? geir And possibly the

Re: Jakarta: too many similar projects?

2003-03-11 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
No I'm saying that projects which some committers are bound by Sun's NDAs and are on the specification commmittees do not have meritocratic consensus based communities. The committers engaged in the legal agreement with sun cannot talk to the other committers about important decisions affecting

Re: Jakarta: too many similar projects?

2003-03-11 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr .
On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 06:40 PM, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: No I'm saying that projects which some committers are bound by Sun's NDAs and are on the specification commmittees do not have meritocratic consensus based communities. Do you have any examples of this? You aren't confusing the

Re: Jakarta: too many similar projects?

2003-03-11 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Do you have any examples of this? You aren't confusing the material I submit to the ASF JCP group from the EC with whatever you are thinking about, are you? I do not subscribe to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list as I was informed that it would bind me in the ASF's NDA agreements with Sun. (and I

Re: Jakarta: too many similar projects?

2003-03-11 Thread Costin Manolache
Andrew C. Oliver wrote: have meritocratic consensus based communities. The committers engaged in the legal agreement with sun cannot talk to the other committers about important decisions affecting the project and secondly the major decisions are made in the specification committee and not

Re: Jakarta: too many similar projects?

2003-03-11 Thread Pier Fumagalli
On 11/3/03 23:40 Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No I'm saying that projects which some committers are bound by Sun's NDAs and are on the specification commmittees do not have meritocratic consensus based communities. The committers engaged in the legal agreement with sun cannot

Re: Jakarta: too many similar projects?

2003-03-11 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Thanks Pier. Thats a great perpective. Lets have some more. Anyone have a remarkably positive Gee the JCP listens to everyone and I can disclose everything to my fellow committers and its been great for our community? -Andy Pier Fumagalli wrote: On 11/3/03 23:40 Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL

Re: Jakarta: too many similar projects?

2003-03-11 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 22:09:14 -0500 From: Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Jakarta General List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jakarta General List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Jakarta: too many similar projects? Thanks Pier. Thats a

re: Jakarta: too many similar projects?

2003-03-11 Thread Rich Persaud
Craig M. wrote: | Andy seems to believe that *implementing* a specification (as opposed to | creating one) is not a valid itch to be scratched if he doesn't like the | mechanism by which the specification is created. It's perfectly | reasonable for Andy to decide that for the projects he gets

re[2]: Jakarta: too many similar projects?

2003-03-11 Thread Rich Persaud
| It is straightforward to replace brand overloading with brand segmentation, | including informal segmentation that is later formalized upon wide | adoption. | | | huh? | | Conor Andy (or Craig or anyone) can fork the single Apache brand to differentiate projects that are community or

Re: Jakarta: too many similar projects?

2003-03-11 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Yeah, on second thought, its a great idea to remove choice in a project and instead submit it to a JSR committee and hence Suns conrol, take a few folks and put them on NDA so that they can't talk about certain decisions which will affect the project. I'm not against all standards...just

Re: Jakarta: too many similar projects?

2003-03-11 Thread Costin Manolache
Andrew C. Oliver wrote: Yeah, on second thought, its a great idea to remove choice in a project and instead submit it to a JSR committee and hence Suns conrol, take a few folks and put them on NDA so that they can't talk about certain decisions which will affect the project. I'm not

re[3]: Jakarta: too many similar projects?

2003-03-11 Thread Rich Persaud
I wrote: | Andy (or Craig or anyone) can fork the single Apache brand to differentiate | projects that are community or standards or foo -oriented. If the | distinction turns out be predictive (of code quality or innovation or | discussion | quality or ...), then people will use the

JCP NDA (was: too many similar projects?)

2003-03-11 Thread Rich Persaud
Andy wrote: | Yeah, on second thought, its a great idea to remove choice in a project | and instead submit it to a JSR committee and hence Suns conrol, take a | few folks and put them on NDA so that they can't talk about certain | decisions which will affect the project. [** disclaimer: I

re: JCP NDA (was: too many similar projects?)

2003-03-11 Thread Rich Persaud
I wrote: | Is the NDA under NDA? Or can someone post a copy? Ok, there's no separate NDA, it's part of the standard agreements: http://jcp.org/en/participation/membership Follow-up questions: 1. Is there an Apache-specific, public archive of JCP discussion, including the negotiation

Re: Jakarta: too many similar projects?

2003-03-11 Thread Bill Barker
- Original Message - From: Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jakarta General List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 8:40 PM Subject: Re: Jakarta: too many similar projects? Yeah, on second thought, its a great idea to remove choice in a project and instead submit it

Re: Jakarta: too many similar projects?

2003-03-11 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr .
On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 08:21 PM, Costin Manolache wrote: As with any standard, the decision making is based on a group of people representing different interests. Apache does have a vote ( AFAIK ), just like Sun or IBM. Projects should be able to participate - and we should find a way

Re: Jakarta: too many similar projects?

2003-03-11 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr .
On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 10:58 PM, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: As it turns out, there is substantial room for innovation and debate in the implementation of API specs like servlet and JSP (see the history of Tomcat development, and the recent innovation going on there for an example), just

Re: Jakarta: too many similar projects?

2003-03-11 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr .
On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 11:40 PM, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: Yeah, on second thought, its a great idea to remove choice in a project and instead submit it to a JSR committee and hence Suns conrol, Andy, you have pretty much the same power over a JSR as Scott McNeely does. The ASF has a

Re: JCP NDA (was: too many similar projects?)

2003-03-11 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr .
On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 01:32 AM, Rich Persaud wrote: I wrote: | Is the NDA under NDA? Or can someone post a copy? Ok, there's no separate NDA, it's part of the standard agreements: http://jcp.org/en/participation/membership Follow-up questions: 1. Is there an Apache-specific,

Re: Incubator DOA (Re: [STATUS] Tapestry [LACK-OF] Progress)

2003-03-11 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
I'd add to the list the Pluto and Charon proposals. I haven't seen any reaction from the incubator to these? I know there was some discussions and issues/hurdles raised by Andy but some sort of acknowledgment would be polite. Note that as a member of the Jakarta PMC I'm -1 on the Pluto