Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-14 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 16:53 +0100, Martin van den Bemt wrote: Just zap alexandria (we just zapped the mailinglist too). We can look at it as being promoted to TLP anyway (gump). ORO and Regexp ar kind of finished I thought, we should mark it stable or something like that. Don't know

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-07 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
Henri Yandell wrote: * ECS, ORO, Regexp to be moved to a label of Inactive. Think of Regexp as of low maintenance project. There are several issues reported against it, and some of those can be (relatively) easy fixed and new release can be pushed out. It would be disappointing if such

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-06 Thread Martin van den Bemt
Just zap alexandria (we just zapped the mailinglist too). We can look at it as being promoted to TLP anyway (gump). ORO and Regexp ar kind of finished I thought, we should mark it stable or something like that. Don't know about ECS though. Mvgr, Martin Henri Yandell wrote: I really

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel F. Savarese
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Yoav Shapira writes: I do care, a lot, as a user. Active means bugs are getting fixed, the mailing lists are a reasonable source for help, and if new standards I think that's a reason why perhaps a finer gradation than inactive and active may be in order. For

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-06 Thread Henri Yandell
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Daniel F. Savarese wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Yoav Shapira writes: I do care, a lot, as a user. Active means bugs are getting fixed, the mailing lists are a reasonable source for help, and if new standards I think that's a reason why perhaps a finer

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel F. Savarese
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Henri Yandell writes: Active Development Maintenance Mode Unsupported I think you nailed it. Active, Supported, and Unsupported. Or Active, Inactive (Supported), and Inactive (Unsupported). Anyway, whatever the specific names end up being, that's the gist of it.

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-06 Thread Yoav Shapira
Hola, In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Henri Yandell writes: Active Development Maintenance Mode Unsupported +1. Yoav - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-06 Thread Scot Hale
On 3/6/06, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Active Development Maintenance Mode Unsupported ?? Purely from a semantics perspective, unsupported seems to imply you can count on some sort of support while the project is being maintained. Although there is support, it is

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: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-06 Thread Nathan Bubna
On 3/6/06, Sandy McArthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-06 Thread Henri Yandell
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Scot Hale wrote: On 3/6/06, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Active Development Maintenance Mode Unsupported ?? Purely from a semantics perspective, unsupported seems to imply you can count on some sort of support while the project is being maintained.

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-05 Thread Yoav Shapira
Hola, The word we've used in the past for this type of scenario is dormant, although inactive is just as good IMHO. We've left the link up but made the front page something like this: http://jakarta.apache.org/watchdog/index.html, whose text we spent a good time considering and debating. And

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-05 Thread sebb
Might be worth distinguishing the Mature/Stable projects - e.g. ORO. [We're happily using that in JMeter] Or does Dormant/Inactive imply Mature/Stable? S. On 05/03/06, Yoav Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola, The word we've used in the past for this type of scenario is dormant, although

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-05 Thread Yoav Shapira
Hi, You're right, that's a good distinction to make, because dormant/inactive is not always the same as mature/stable. That's why we wrote the explanation on the Watchdog page with regards to servlet specification versions. On the ORO page, I might imagine a notice saying this project is dormant

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-05 Thread Rainer Klute
Am Sonntag, den 05.03.2006, 15:03 + schrieb sebb: Might be worth distinguishing the Mature/Stable projects - e.g. ORO. [We're happily using that in JMeter] Yes, I second that. Inactive, dormant etc. sound negative while mature or stable leave a good impression. And it is indeed a big

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-05 Thread Henri Yandell
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Rainer Klute wrote: Am Sonntag, den 05.03.2006, 15:03 + schrieb sebb: Might be worth distinguishing the Mature/Stable projects - e.g. ORO. [We're happily using that in JMeter] Yes, I second that. Inactive, dormant etc. sound negative while mature or stable leave a

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-05 Thread Sandy McArthur
On 3/5/06, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finding a label to match the above messages is tricky; inactive development seems to be the only one that fits. How about a project is in hibernation. In other words no future developement is expected unless the enviroment for that project

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-05 Thread Martin Cooper
On 3/5/06, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really shouldn't be sending multiple emails at the same time - you'll all jsut end up replying to one of them. However, itching while the itch is present. Alexandria is dead. We need to represent it as so on the site. Why? You're trying

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-05 Thread Nathan Bubna
On 3/5/06, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Rainer Klute wrote: Am Sonntag, den 05.03.2006, 15:03 + schrieb sebb: Might be worth distinguishing the Mature/Stable projects - e.g. ORO. [We're happily using that in JMeter] Yes, I second that. Inactive,

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-05 Thread Torsten Curdt
BCEL - In need of a bugfix release, design-wise ASM is preferrable. Almost there :) ...still a few bugs to close cheers -- Torsten smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-05 Thread Henri Yandell
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Martin Cooper wrote: On 3/5/06, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really shouldn't be sending multiple emails at the same time - you'll all jsut end up replying to one of them. However, itching while the itch is present. Alexandria is dead. We need to represent

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-05 Thread Rainer Klute
Am Sonntag, den 05.03.2006, 16:08 -0500 schrieb Henri Yandell: Inactive Subprojects ... * POI ... No! POI is not inactive at all. I just committed a major enhancement a few days ago. Best regards Rainer Klute Rainer Klute IT-Consulting GmbH Dipl.-Inform.

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-05 Thread Henri Yandell
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Rainer Klute wrote: Am Sonntag, den 05.03.2006, 16:08 -0500 schrieb Henri Yandell: Inactive Subprojects ... * POI ... No! POI is not inactive at all. I just committed a major enhancement a few days ago. *evil grin* I may have added a couple to that list that I

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-05 Thread Felipe Leme
Henri Yandell wrote: Inactive Subprojects * Cactus Cactus is more on a 'Hibernation' status; I agree there hasn't been activities in the last weeks, but we have some stuff planned (for instance, I should have relased Cactus 1.7.2 to fix the jboss-j2ee.jar issue, but couldn't do so

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-05 Thread Henri Yandell
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Felipe Leme wrote: Henri Yandell wrote: Inactive Subprojects * Cactus Cactus is more on a 'Hibernation' status; I agree there hasn't been activities in the last weeks, but we have some stuff planned (for instance, I should have relased Cactus 1.7.2 to fix the

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-05 Thread Martin Cooper
On 3/5/06, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Martin Cooper wrote: On 3/5/06, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really shouldn't be sending multiple emails at the same time - you'll all jsut end up replying to one of them. However, itching while the

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-05 Thread Yoav Shapira
Hola, Martin, I agree with almost everything you've said, except this: But why? If I'm a user looking for something to help me out in my development, I don't really care that much if it's active or not. What I I do care, a lot, as a user. Active means bugs are getting fixed, the mailing lists

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-05 Thread Henri Yandell
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Martin Cooper wrote: On 3/5/06, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All (90%?) of the navel gazing comes down to one binary question. Should Jakarta be a community, or a community of communities. Are we Jakarta committers, or ORO committers. It should be what it

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-05 Thread Martin Cooper
On 3/5/06, Yoav Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola, Martin, I agree with almost everything you've said, except this: But why? If I'm a user looking for something to help me out in my development, I don't really care that much if it's active or not. What I I do care, a lot, as a user.

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-05 Thread Martin Cooper
On 3/5/06, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Martin Cooper wrote: On 3/5/06, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All (90%?) of the navel gazing comes down to one binary question. Should Jakarta be a community, or a community of communities. Are we Jakarta

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-05 Thread Sandy McArthur
On 3/5/06, Martin Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But why? If I'm a user looking for something to help me out in my development, I don't really care that much if it's active or not. What I care about is if it does the job. If there are problems with it, then I might care about whether it's

Re: Representing project inactivity on the site

2006-03-05 Thread Nathan Bubna
On 3/5/06, Martin Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/5/06, Yoav Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola, Martin, I agree with almost everything you've said, except this: But why? If I'm a user looking for something to help me out in my development, I don't really care that much if