Re: Howto revive inactive projects ?

2007-02-14 Thread Roland Weber
Hi Julius, If someone is interested in taking over a truly inactive project, maybe they should fork and start their own SVN repository from their own domain. The person should make it clear that their fork is in no way sanctioned by Apache. That would be OK for projects that are, as you

[ANNOUNCE] VelocityTools 1.3 released

2007-02-14 Thread Nathan Bubna
I'm pleased to announce the release of VelocityTools 1.3. There have been many improvements made since the 1.2 release. A key focus in this version has been ease of use. We've simplified developing your own tools by eliminating the ViewTool and Configurable interfaces, and we've simplified the

[Jakarta Wiki] Update of JakartaBoardReport-current by HenriYandell

2007-02-14 Thread Apache Wiki
Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on Jakarta Wiki for change notification. The following page has been changed by HenriYandell: http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta/JakartaBoardReport-current The comment on the change is: IO and Lang have both just had releases.

Re: Howto revive inactive projects ?

2007-02-14 Thread Henri Yandell
On 2/14/07, Roland Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is my take on a revival procedure... Pre-precondition. We need to define what is inactive and place it in such a state. Dormant seems a favourite word. In the recent board report for the Commons components, we've gone with Inactive to

Re: News feed,

2007-02-14 Thread Henri Yandell
Howard knocked it together. XML file that generates HTML and RSS. The news.xml in the jakarta/site/ in svn. Hen On 2/7/07, Danny Angus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see jakarta has a news feed, I'd like to nick the idea for James. How did you do that? d.

Re: Howto revive inactive projects ?

2007-02-14 Thread Julius Davies
After reading the followups, -1 to my original idea! :-) One funny thought: I love having inactive jars in my classpath. It's the active jars that give me all the headaches! -- yours, Julius Davies 416-652-0183 http://juliusdavies.ca/