Re: Opening up the PMC

2006-08-08 Thread Sandy McArthur
On 8/8/06, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) Every new committer automatically gets added to the pmc. -0 I think the committer role as an initiation period of sorts is good thing. -- Sandy McArthur He who dares not offend cannot be honest. - Thomas Paine

Re: [VOTE] Remove SVN restrictions

2006-03-29 Thread Sandy McArthur
subproject (ie: you don't care what the rest of Jakarta does, feel free to say so). -- Sandy McArthur He who dares not offend cannot be honest. - Thomas Paine - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e

Re: [PROPOSAL] Cleanup pmc members

2006-03-16 Thread Sandy McArthur
feels a bit like when the south (in the USA years ago) introduced literacy tests to keep blacks from voting. It's fine that you have an agenda, but be straight forward and honest about it. And don't make people jump through hoops so their possibly conflicting positions are still binding. -- Sandy

Re: [PROPOSAL] Cleanup pmc members

2006-03-16 Thread Sandy McArthur
On 3/16/06, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Sandy McArthur wrote: On 3/16/06, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Previously I'd suggested that we should be cleaning up inactive committers and inactive PMC members - because I'm a bit of a tidy-addict sometimes

Re: [PROPOSAL] Cleanup pmc members

2006-03-16 Thread Sandy McArthur
that feels wrong to me. If you want, I'll come up with a list, starting with http://jakarta.apache.org/site/whoweare.html , and make an effort to contact them and report back after a while and it will feel right to me. -- Sandy McArthur He who dares not offend cannot be honest. - Thomas Paine

Re: Managing communities and emails (was Re: [PROPOSAL] Jakarta Language Components)

2006-03-14 Thread Sandy McArthur
but dead to younger generations these days. -- Sandy McArthur He who dares not offend cannot be honest. - Thomas Paine - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

adding a link from commons.apache.org to Jakarta Commons?

2006-03-13 Thread Sandy McArthur
packages then go see the a href=http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/;Apache Jakarta Commons/a page. -- Sandy McArthur He who dares not offend cannot be honest. - Thomas Paine - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: svn commit: r383773 - /jakarta/site/xdocs/site/whoweare.xml

2006-03-07 Thread Sandy McArthur
On 3/7/06, Rahul Akolkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Author: sandymac Date: Mon Mar 6 20:30:58 2006 New Revision: 383773 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=383773view=rev Log: Added myself, Sandy McArthur, to whoweare.xml

Re: Jakarta Web Components

2006-03-06 Thread Sandy McArthur
it is a secondary concern. -- Sandy McArthur He who dares not offend cannot be honest. - Thomas Paine - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Jakarta Web Components + Jakarta HttpComponents

2006-03-06 Thread Sandy McArthur
it does. When categorizing this stuff pretend you are an end user. A lib's existence is justified by how it helps it's users get work done. -- Sandy McArthur He who dares not offend cannot be honest. - Thomas Paine - To unsubscribe, e

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-06 Thread Sandy McArthur
On 3/6/06, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Active Development Maintenance Mode Unsupported My preference would be: Active Development: not really named though, the implied default Hibernating: not active but will wake up as needed Dormant: no future activity is expected -- Sandy

Re: [PROPOSAL] Two community proposals

2006-03-05 Thread Sandy McArthur
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Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-05 Thread Sandy McArthur
changes. -- Sandy McArthur He who dares not offend cannot be honest. - Thomas Paine - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-05 Thread Sandy McArthur
active or not - or maybe I don't, since it's open source and I could fix the problems myself, if I chose to. The people who care about active versus inactive are those on the PMC, and those are not the people we should be designing the Jakarta front page for. My thoughts exactly. -- Sandy