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: On unity and coherence [was Re: [Request For Comment] POI @apache]

2002-01-06 Thread Paulo Gaspar
Here we go again, -Original Message- From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 4:45 AM Playing Devil's advocate. I think it's fair to push back on adding things to Jakarta... On 1/5/02 9:53 PM, Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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: On unity and coherence [was Re: [Request For Comment] POI @apache]

2002-01-06 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 1/6/02 12:18 PM, Paulo Gaspar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here we go again, Alas. -Original Message- From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 4:45 AM Playing Devil's advocate. I think it's fair to push back on adding things to

RE: On unity and coherence [was Re: [Request For Comment] POI @apache]

2002-01-06 Thread Paulo Gaspar
Again... -Original Message- From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 6:14 PM On 1/6/02 12:11 PM, Paulo Gaspar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Lots of is it server or is it client talk ... I just mean that sometimes saying that something is

Re: On unity and coherence [was Re: [Request For Comment] POI @apache]

2002-01-06 Thread Peter Donald
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 04:14, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: BTW, do you know they use Velocity for something??? Who, POI? Cocoon have a VelocityGenerator (the first stage in their XML transformation pipeline). -- Cheers, Pete -- you've made a

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: On unity and coherence [was Re: [Request For Comment]POI@apache]

2002-01-06 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Answer inline -Original Message- From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 3:53 AM ... I can not express this POV better than Linus did in posts reported by this article: http://kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=398 Any corporation

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: proposal for the jakarta startpage

2002-01-06 Thread Ted Husted
In futherance of the work begun the other day, I broke the subproject list into three general categories, to increase readability. Libraries, Tools, and APIs Frameworks and Engines Server Applications I based the initial categories and placements on how the subprojects described themselves.

Re: proposal for the jakarta startpage

2002-01-06 Thread Ted Husted
Lazy consensus. If anyone doesn't like it, they can change it :) Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: Cool. I am assuming that you will ask each project where they belong? :) -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA. -- Building Java web applications with Struts. -- Tel +1 585 737-3463. -- Web

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: proposal for the jakarta startpage

2002-01-06 Thread Peter Donald
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 06:10, Sam Ruby wrote: Shouldn't... Velocity and Jasper be in the same category? Watchdog and Tomcat be in the same category? Jmeter and Cactus be in the same category? Lucene and Oro be in the same category? Shouldn't JMeter and Watchdog be in the same

RE: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Paulo Gaspar
I was just using it as a platform for the topic I really want to discuss. Go for the topic. =:o) I think that we are already discussing that topic but POI is now becoming more of a distraction than an example. Name the topic and I will try not to get distracted. =;o) Have fun, Paulo

Brief History of Jakarta and the ASF

2002-01-06 Thread Ted Husted
Any takers? Hard to tell where we're going when we don't know where we've been. Here's all I got: http://java.apache.org/main/constitution.html Pier to Jon - Thu, 21 Dec 2000 We've traveled a long way together, from my very first steps in open-source land in January 1998, to our marvelous

Re: proposal for the jakarta startpage

2002-01-06 Thread Ted Husted
Sam Ruby wrote: My two cents: these categories are not perfect, but are useful. Not unlike the Apache Projects =:) -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA. -- Building Java web applications with Struts. -- Tel +1 585 737-3463. -- Web http://www.husted.com/struts/ -- To unsubscribe,

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

Re: proposal for the jakarta startpage

2002-01-06 Thread Peter Donald
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 06:49, Sam Ruby wrote: Peter Donald wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 06:10, Sam Ruby wrote: Shouldn't... Velocity and Jasper be in the same category? Watchdog and Tomcat be in the same category? Jmeter and Cactus be in the same category? Lucene and Oro

Re: proposal for the jakarta startpage

2002-01-06 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 1/6/02 2:21 PM, Peter Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 06:10, Sam Ruby wrote: Shouldn't... Velocity and Jasper be in the same category? Watchdog and Tomcat be in the same category? Jmeter and Cactus be in the same category? Lucene and Oro be in the

Re: proposal for the jakarta startpage

2002-01-06 Thread Peter Donald
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 07:27, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: Shouldn't tomcat and httpd be in the same category? different technologies (ie c vs java). Shouldn't Cocoon and PHP be in the same category? different technologies (ie c vs java) Shouldn't APR and Commons and Avalon be in the same

Re: proposal for the jakarta startpage

2002-01-06 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 1/6/02 3:54 PM, Peter Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 07:27, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: Shouldn't tomcat and httpd be in the same category? different technologies (ie c vs java). So what? You didn't think that mattered before. Shouldn't Cocoon and PHP be in the

Re: Commons Validator Packaging/Content

2002-01-06 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/6/02 1:45 PM, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon, I presume that you are talking about the subject, and not the text you are quoting. In any case, a framework independent validator seems to me to be valuable a reusable component. If one or both can't be restructed to be framework

Re: new home page

2002-01-06 Thread Kevin A. Burton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Scott Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on 1/6/02 11:33 AM, Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know you're supposed to be silent when you agree with stuff Who said that? Yes... not with Apache Voting Rules... Kevin - --

Re: new home page

2002-01-06 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
on 1/6/02 11:33 AM, Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know you're supposed to be silent when you agree with stuff Who said that? -jon I meant rather than a bunch of me-too ing. I thought I read that somewhere once. Or maybe its because I have low oxygen to the brain right

Re: Commons Validator Packaging/Content

2002-01-06 Thread Sam Ruby
Jon Scott Stevens wrote: Jon, I presume that you are talking about the subject, and not the text you are quoting. In any case, a framework independent validator seems to me to be valuable a reusable component. If one or both can't be restructed to be framework independent, then that would

[OT] Snow

2002-01-06 Thread Kief Morris
Andrew C. Oliver typed the following on 06:10 PM 1/6/2002 -0500 YANKEES PLEASE READ THIS: Please come get your white stuff off of the ground and take it back up North where it belongs. We have no need for it here in the South. Yeah? Try it here in Istanbul! I crowed to all my friends back

RE: [OT] Snow

2002-01-06 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Kief Morris typed the following: Andrew C. Oliver typed the following on 06:10 PM 1/6/2002 -0500 YANKEES PLEASE READ THIS: Please come get your white stuff off of the ground and take it back up North where it belongs. We have no need for it here in the South. Yeah? Try it here in

RE: On unity and coherence [was Re: [Request For Comment]POI  Â @apache]

2002-01-06 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
-Original Message- From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 6:55 PM On 1/6/02 12:58 PM, Paulo Gaspar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... If you start at the top of the thread, I declare I am playing devils' advocate, and addressing the three

RE: Commons Validator Packaging/Content

2002-01-06 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
You need a search engine for these little things maybe off the main page. With something catchy under it like High your software has already been written for you...find it here. This would ecourage useful javadoc comments as well. So if I type tree I should see all the tree classes in the

Re: On unity and coherence [was Re: [Request For Comment] POI  Â @apache]

2002-01-06 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 1/6/02 9:10 PM, Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 6:55 PM On 1/6/02 12:58 PM, Paulo Gaspar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... If you start at the top of the thread, I

Re: On unity and coherence [was Re: [Request For Comment] POIÂ @apache]

2002-01-06 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 1/6/02 9:51 PM, Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My apologies. I'll shut up now until my brain un-freezes. :-D -Andy Sheesh. Give southerners a dusting of snow and all goes pear shaped... :) -- Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] System

OT: northern drivers and their snow...was: Re: On unity andcoherence [was Re: [Request For Comment] POIÂ @apache]

2002-01-06 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
On 1/6/02 9:51 PM, Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My apologies. I'll shut up now until my brain un-freezes. :-D -Andy Sheesh. Give southerners a dusting of snow and all goes pear shaped... :) Thats right... keep that white junk up there. We're not interested in it. To be

Re: Jboss Start up

2002-01-06 Thread Ted Husted
Sorry, wrong group. Try jboss.org birendra kumar padhi wrote: When i start the JBoss server i am getting this error message. Please help me. Birendra Padhi [Info] Java version: 1.3.1_01,Sun Microsystems Inc. [Info] Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM

Re: OT: northern drivers and their snow...was: Re: On unityandcoherence [was Re: [Request For Comment] POIÂ @apache]

2002-01-06 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Yeah RIGHT. Northern cars don't even HAVE blinkers! When up north I drive real slow in the just left of the right lane (avoid northern style kamikaze merges) with my hazard lights on going about 70 (which must be below the minimum speed limit). BTW the north to me starts just a little above

Re: OT: northern drivers and their snow...was: Re: On unityandcoherence [was Re: [Request For Comment] POIÂ @apache]

2002-01-06 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 1/6/02 11:14 PM, Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah RIGHT. Northern cars don't even HAVE blinkers! Of course not - then you would know when we are about to cut you off... When up north I drive real slow in the just left of the right lane (avoid northern style kamikaze

Re: proposal for the jakarta startpage

2002-01-06 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 1/6/02 5:26 PM, Peter Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 08:05, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On 1/6/02 3:54 PM, Peter Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 07:27, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: Shouldn't tomcat and httpd be in the same category? different