Re: [VOTE] Remove POI svn restrictions.

2006-12-17 Thread Niall Pemberton
On 12/16/06, Martin van den Bemt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -1 from me. Harmony doesn't let anyone commit on their project unless they they sign a statement saying they haven't looked at Sun's source code[1]. AFAIK this is a similar issue and the POI policy [2] is designed to protect POI,

Re: [VOTE] Remove POI svn restrictions.

2006-12-17 Thread Henning Schmiedehausen
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 18:25 -0500, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: [...] what is your interest here? Do you have nothing better to do? You *might* (at some point) read up what part of Apache the POI project is in and who is currently legally responsible for it. This is not your small, private show

Re: [VOTE] Remove POI svn restrictions.

2006-12-17 Thread Henning Schmiedehausen
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 20:30 -0500, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: [...] I would like to see a formats.apache.org project which was devoted to We do know that you are not serious here. [...] With the launch of Buni (http://buni.org) my time for repeating votes Domain Name:BUNI.ORG Created

Re: [VOTE] Remove POI svn restrictions.

2006-12-17 Thread Roland Weber
Hello Niall, Why is it any different than Harmony? Harmony requires that an Authorized Contributor Questionnaire be signed. The ACQ surely has been reviewd by the ASF legal team, and signatures are legally significant. http://harmony.apache.org/auth_cont_quest.html The POI Get Involved page

Re: [VOTE] Remove POI svn restrictions.

2006-12-17 Thread Niall Pemberton
On 12/17/06, Roland Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Niall, Why is it any different than Harmony? Harmony requires that an Authorized Contributor Questionnaire be signed. The ACQ surely has been reviewd by the ASF legal team, and signatures are legally significant.

Re: svn commit: r487443 - /jakarta/site/docs/site/downloads/downloads_bsf.cgi

2006-12-17 Thread Henning Schmiedehausen
Hi Sanka, what you are missing is svn propset svn:executable on site/docs/site/downloads/downloads_bsf.cgi This will set this file to executable when you check out the site into the jakarta tree and allow the CGI script to run. Best regards Henning On Fri,

Re: [VOTE] Remove POI svn restrictions.

2006-12-17 Thread Martin van den Bemt
Niall Pemberton wrote: On 12/16/06, Martin van den Bemt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -1 from me. Harmony doesn't let anyone commit on their project unless they they sign a statement saying they haven't looked at Sun's source code[1]. AFAIK this is a similar issue and the POI policy [2] is

Re: [VOTE] Remove POI svn restrictions.

2006-12-17 Thread Martin van den Bemt
Niall Pemberton wrote: On 12/17/06, Roland Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Niall, Why is it any different than Harmony? Harmony requires that an Authorized Contributor Questionnaire be signed. The ACQ surely has been reviewd by the ASF legal team, and signatures are legally

Re: [VOTE] Remove POI svn restrictions.

2006-12-17 Thread rogeliotamonte
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Re: [VOTE] Remove POI svn restrictions.

2006-12-17 Thread Rainer Klute
Rainer Klute schrieb: Martin van den Bemt schrieb: [+1] Open up POI svn commit access. [-1] Don't open POI svn commit access, because... [0] I don't care. Having read all the contribution http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=endep=/gQPU.search=contributions on this thread, I revoke

Re: [VOTE] Remove POI svn restrictions.

2006-12-17 Thread Henri Yandell
On 12/15/06, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/15/06, Nick Burch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Martin van den Bemt wrote: Apache legal doesn't know anything about this.. Back when I joined POI, I was told the apache legal team had suggested the requirement.

Re: [VOTE] Remove POI svn restrictions.

2006-12-17 Thread Avik Sengupta
Wow! The one weekend I decide not to check mail!! :) Am replying to the original message for convenience, but have read the thread till this point. Basically, the amount of negativity towards POI project in the thread seems seems quite painful. At the end of the day, I believe we keep

Re: [VOTE] Remove POI svn restrictions.

2006-12-17 Thread Martin van den Bemt
Hi Avik, Avik Sengupta wrote: Wow! The one weekend I decide not to check mail!! :) I know what you mean :) Am replying to the original message for convenience, but have read the thread till this point. Basically, the amount of negativity towards POI project in the thread seems seems

Board Report December

2006-12-17 Thread Martin van den Bemt
Jakarta Board Report First of all I like to mention that I haven't be able to spent the time I wanted to spend, which is something I will try to improve. I like to request special attention is given to the POI subproject section in the report. Another improvement should be that the majority of

Re: [VOTE] Remove POI svn restrictions.

2006-12-17 Thread Henri Yandell
On 12/17/06, Martin van den Bemt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Avik Sengupta wrote: I'd have been happy seeing POI move to a TLP. However, some of the comments in this thread seem to preclude that possibility either. I think his leaves the community between a rock and a hard place ... I dont

Re: Board Report December

2006-12-17 Thread Martin van den Bemt
Replying to myself :) People I am doing something wrong. The board report should be created by the committers, with a personal note added from the Vice President (or in slang Chair). As you all can see, I am the only one who wrote it, which is 1) time consuming 2) icomplete (just have a look a

Re: [VOTE] Remove POI svn restrictions.

2006-12-17 Thread Roland Weber
Hello Avik, I'd have been happy seeing POI move to a TLP. However, some of the comments in this thread seem to preclude that possibility either. I think his leaves the community between a rock and a hard place ... I dont want us to be subsumed as a commons project I don't think that the

Re: Board Report December

2006-12-17 Thread Dennis Lundberg
Martin van den Bemt wrote: Replying to myself :) People I am doing something wrong. The board report should be created by the committers, with a personal note added from the Vice President (or in slang Chair). As you all can see, I am the only one who wrote it, which is 1) time consuming 2)

Re: Board Report December

2006-12-17 Thread Martin van den Bemt
Nah not like that one :) One with all correct projects already present (I'll just change that page!) :) I want to make sure that all reports contain all subprojects and preferrably all sub sub projects (and I really hope we don't have any sub sub sub projects) Thanx for the link :) Knew

Re: [VOTE] Remove POI svn restrictions.

2006-12-17 Thread Martin van den Bemt
made a proposal to promote POI now, I would expect the board to reject it and tell us make POI work in Jakarta before you promote it to TLP. That is was my feeling as well, but I understood from the board that they rather prefer that things are not hidden in subprojects, which is something

[Jakarta Wiki] Update of BoardReportTemplate by MartinvandenBemt

2006-12-17 Thread Apache Wiki
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Board reports.

2006-12-17 Thread Martin van den Bemt
Hi everyone, The official way board reports should be handled has 2 parts : 1 part that is edited by the the committers (= the people who know best about there projects) and after that the VP can add his personal notes to the report. So starting from now I would like to see that people add the

Re: [Jakarta Wiki] Trivial Update of JakartaBoardReport-March2007 by RolandWeber

2006-12-17 Thread Martin van den Bemt
Feel free to remove it from commons and add it to HttpComponents. It was just a dumb copy paste from the commons webpage :) While you are at it, you could also add this to the template (+ httpcode and httpasync) Mvgr, Martin Apache Wiki wrote: Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki

Re: [VOTE] Remove POI svn restrictions.

2006-12-17 Thread Henri Yandell
On 12/17/06, Roland Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Avik, I'd have been happy seeing POI move to a TLP. However, some of the comments in this thread seem to preclude that possibility either. I think his leaves the community between a rock and a hard place ... I dont want us to be

Re: [VOTE] Remove POI svn restrictions.

2006-12-17 Thread Yoav Shapira
Hi, On 12/17/06, Mark Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin van den Bemt wrote: I simply don't care to be honest. Nick is doing lot's of work for POI, without any guidance from the people you anticipate of giving guidance, which is what I care about. So my first goal is helping out Nick

Re: [VOTE] Remove POI svn restrictions.

2006-12-17 Thread Roland Weber
Hello Henri, I bet a lot of Jakarta does not conform - it's only when a release happens that we think about bringing it up to date. This is not a problem of the POI community but a problem of the Jakarta community structure and for the PMC. It's the PMC's responsibility to make sure these

Re: Board Report December

2006-12-17 Thread Avik Sengupta
It feels like they are acting as a separate entity in Jakarta and even the ASF itself Let me put on record my severe objection to this statement. Regards - Avik Quoting Martin van den Bemt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jakarta Board Report First of all I like to mention that I haven't be able to

Re: Board Report December

2006-12-17 Thread Rainer Klute
Avik Sengupta schrieb: It feels like they are acting as a separate entity in Jakarta and even the ASF itself Let me put on record my severe objection to this statement. Yes, the wording is quite harsh. However, following the arguments in the POI thread, we indeed seem not to act as we should