Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-11 Thread Gunnar Rønning
* Peter Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 03:08, Ceki Gülcü wrote: | Some of the existing projects within Jakarta are server-side only, others | are client-side as well as server-side, none are client-side only. | | except for JMeter ? JMeter is useful for testing

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-11 Thread Peter Donald
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 04:38, Gunnar Rønning wrote: * Peter Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 03:08, Ceki Gülcü wrote: | Some of the existing projects within Jakarta are server-side only, | others are client-side as well as server-side, none are client-side | only. | |

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-07 Thread Kief Morris
Jon Scott Stevens typed the following on 04:22 PM 1/6/2002 -0800 on 1/6/02 3:46 PM, Kief Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although I haven't been participating, I've been following this discussion, and would like to donate my 30,000 Turkish Lira (roughly $0.02 at today's rates). Yes, everyone

RE: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-07 Thread Paulo Gaspar
So, that's my $0.00 this time around (that's about 10,000 Turkish Lira today). I would give at least 2 Euros for this one! =:o) Couldn't say it better... or I would have done it before! =:o) Have fun, Paulo Gaspar -Original Message- From: Kief Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Peter Donald
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:10, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: 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.

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Sam Ruby
Peter Donald wrote: Effectively XML/Jakarta would become a single city with a mosaic of subcultures. Already we have different sub-cultures which are effectively defined by the committers - when a committer is a member of multiple projects they tend to imbue the projects with their own

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Ted Husted
I agree except that I think the cities here are the subprojects, like Velocity and Struts, and the projects, like Jakarta and XML, are just arbitrary containers (lines on a map). Subprojects are like cities, Projects are like states (or provinces), and ASF is the nation. I don't think an

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Ted Husted
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: I thought I would share, as my thinking about removing community containers here in Jakarta, XML et al resonates well this. Personally, I just think its mainly a matter of packaging. By definination, we are all trying to share the same ASF culture, though each

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 1/6/02 3:52 AM, Peter Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:10, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: 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

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 1/6/02 8:06 AM, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: I thought I would share, as my thinking about removing community containers here in Jakarta, XML et al resonates well this. Personally, I just think its mainly a matter of packaging. By definination, we are

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Ted Husted
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On 1/6/02 8:06 AM, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: I thought I would share, as my thinking about removing community containers here in Jakarta, XML et al resonates well this. Personally, I just think its mainly a matter of

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Ted Husted
Ooops, should have been I believe that the subcultures exist mainly at the subproject level. The PROJECTS, like many states and provinces are, simply granfalloons. http://www.kcoyle.net/granfalloons.html -T. Ted Husted wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On 1/6/02 8:06

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Peter Donald
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 00:22, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On 1/6/02 8:06 AM, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: I thought I would share, as my thinking about removing community containers here in Jakarta, XML et al resonates well this. Personally, I just think its

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Ted Husted
Ted Husted wrote: (1) That we petition the ASF to change our charter and remove the word server, so what we are simply charged with providing production quality solutions on the Java platform. [I'd link to our charter, but can't find the ASF minutes any more, and don't know where else it

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Sam Ruby
Ted Husted wrote: So I'm thinking we might propose that our charter be amended to RESOLVED, that the Jakarta Project Management Committee be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of -1 commercial-quality, open-source, server-side solutions for the Java +1

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Sam Ruby
Peter Donald wrote: Alternatively, perhaps we might consider something like a public apache-projects list, where all the PMCs would meet and discuss issues like this, and conduct the formal votes, and let the general lists revert back to a chat room. I can't see the PHP people being too

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 10:29 06.01.2002 -0500, you wrote: Ted Husted wrote: (1) That we petition the ASF to change our charter and remove the word server, so what we are simply charged with providing production quality solutions on the Java platform. [I'd link to our charter, but can't find the ASF minutes any

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Ted Husted
Sam Ruby wrote: I think Roy's reaction is highly predicatable, and should be anticipated. From http://jakarta.apache.org/site/pmc/01-01-17-meeting-minutes.html : Roy identified two potential showstoppers and (1) if there was overlap with other PMCs (example: Cocoon), and (2) if the

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Peter Donald
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 03:08, Ceki Gülcü wrote: Some of the existing projects within Jakarta are server-side only, others are client-side as well as server-side, none are client-side only. except for JMeter ? -- Cheers, Pete

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 1/6/02 10:29 AM, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted Husted wrote: (1) That we petition the ASF to change our charter and remove the word server, so what we are simply charged with providing production quality solutions on the Java platform. [I'd link to our charter, but can't find

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 03:35 07.01.2002 +1100, you wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 03:08, Ceki Gülcü wrote: Some of the existing projects within Jakarta are server-side only, others are client-side as well as server-side, none are client-side only. except for JMeter ? Well, JMeter is a client application to test

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 1/6/02 11:38 AM, Peter Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 03:25, Ted Husted wrote: Sam Ruby wrote: I think Roy's reaction is highly predicatable, and should be anticipated. From http://jakarta.apache.org/site/pmc/01-01-17-meeting-minutes.html : Roy identified two

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Sam Ruby
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: I'll continue to swim upstream. Take POI, Ant, BCEL, Oro, Regexp and make that the core of a new client-side project... Our e-mails crossed in the ether. My point: the above needs a champion. And the proposal needs to be supported by the committers of the affected

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Peter Donald
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 04:06, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: I'll continue to swim upstream. Take POI, Ant, BCEL, Oro, Regexp and make that the core of a new client-side project... wouldn't all those projects be out of scope of a client-side project as none of them are client-side? -- Cheers,

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Peter Donald
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 04:57, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: So the problematic part of the conversation is that we are hung up on the literal semantics behind the words 'client' and 'server' and would be good to explore that. Or maybe we should just recognize that use of those terms is relatively

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Peter Donald
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 04:06, Ceki Gülcü wrote: So, the word server-side might require some further clarification, but removing it completely is not just a cosmetic change. It means opening the flood-gates. The flood gates were opened long ago. Maintianing things like Ant Oro Avalon/Framework

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 1/6/02 12:48 PM, Peter Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 04:01, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: Maybe we could just start having sub-catgories within Jakarta. So basically Jakarta is still the top level project but we have a software map underneath it that categorizes project

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Sam Ruby
Peter Donald wrote: Again, you might think the above is flip, but you are talking about modifying the charter here... The charter was modified ages ago. Sure the words haven't changed but it has been a long time since jakarta project was actually true to the words in its charter ... see

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Sam Ruby
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: I would again try to get is to consider that we have a great chance to use a strong community to anchor a new project. Jakarta can't grow forever. When do you decide to actually step up and try to make a change? I hope it's *before* the outside perception of

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 1/6/02 1:26 PM, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Donald wrote: Again, you might think the above is flip, but you are talking about modifying the charter here... The charter was modified ages ago. Sure the words haven't changed but it has been a long time since jakarta project

RE: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Paulo Gaspar
Or maybe we should just recognize that use of those terms is relatively arbitrary for many (most?) of the jakarta projects and throw it away completely? That is exactly what I think. Paulo -Original Message- From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January

RE: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Paulo Gaspar
-Original Message- From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 7:14 PM To: Jakarta General List Subject: Re: Cultural homogeneity On 1/6/02 1:08 PM, Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would again try to get is to consider that we have

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 1/6/02 1:59 PM, Peter Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With the the high threshold of entry I doubt jakarta will ever be in the same category as sourceforge - I can't see that as anything but a strawman that is brought up every now and again ;) Here is the threshold of entry as stated by

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