Re: jakarta source code documentation

2001-12-14 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
While this is an excellent offer because your tool looks very useful, I think I will personally decline it for the following reasons: #1. Contribution: Your offer tries, but does not really bide well with the open source world. You are offering free use of your tool to open source developers,

Re: Coding style addition

2001-12-15 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 12/15/01 2:20 PM, Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think allowing each project to define what is acceptable is the way it's working now and it's probably best to leave it that way. +1 I can see what Kevin is saying by establishing a 'baseline' though I think that getting agreement

Re: Missing link to second mailing list page

2001-12-18 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 12/18/01 11:02 AM, Glenn Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following page on the jakarta site refers to a second page where the email list subscription info exists, but does not provide a link to it. http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html The above page should in the last

Re: Missing link to second mailing list page

2001-12-18 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 12/18/01 11:02 AM, Glenn Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following page on the jakarta site refers to a second page where the email list subscription info exists, but does not provide a link to it. http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html The above page should in the last

Re: Jakarta Newsletter

2001-12-27 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 12/27/01 1:03 PM, Kevin A. Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why don't you just use an RSS aggregator. Then you can do a search for 'jakarta' and create your own newsletter. Kevin How does that solve the problem*? *the problem is volunteers, not technology. 'you' is putting me or

Re: is a statement of the license in all source files?

2001-12-28 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 12/28/01 2:03 AM, James Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I saw a mail go by a month or so ago whereby a short form of the licence was allowable in source files that refers the reader to a LICENSE.txt file? James I have said it about a thousand times...it isn't ok. There is

Re: [Request For Comment] POI @ apache

2002-01-02 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/2/02 6:13 AM, Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the repost, I realized that I'd incorrectly labeled the post a reply (re:) and thought some folks may have not seen it because of that. A quick update, POI is the #10 project on sourceforge this morning. It sounds like

Re: cvs commit: jakarta-alexandria/proposal/gump/site/xdocsant.xml

2002-01-02 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/2/02 6:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +if (runtime != null) +depend.setAttribute(runtime, runtime.getValue()); All Java Language source code in the repository must be written in conformance to the Code Conventions for the Java Programming

Re: proposal for the jakarta startpage

2002-01-03 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
Here is yet another solution to this problem... http://www.apache.org/foundation/projects.html Once again, I already did 99% of the work. If you guys would like to help keep it up to date and maybe link it from the Jakarta homepage (or copy the data from there), then that would be great. I

Re: [Request For Comment] POI @ apache

2002-01-03 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/3/02 5:31 AM, Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exactly, ignoring M$ doesn't make it go away. I would say the opposite: there are tons of companies that base their document systems on M$ software and would like to move to a more open world but they simply can't afford loosing

Re: [Request For Comment] POI @ apache

2002-01-03 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/3/02 10:15 AM, Paulo Gaspar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As Andrew remarks, it goes quite well with Lucene. It opens the door to interesting synergies like: Slide + Lucene + HTML+PDF+Word+Excel = indexed repository of the most popular

More abuse of coding styles...

2002-01-03 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
It is amazing to me...with all the discussion about coding styles and following them, we still have people committing code that doesn't follow what rules we do have... on 1/3/02 11:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Re: cvs commit:

Re: More abuse of coding styles...

2002-01-04 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/4/02 8:05 AM, Bob Jamison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jakarta.apache.org != Sun That isn't the comparison that we are making here. -jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Request For Comment] POI @ apache

2002-01-04 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/4/02 9:14 AM, Scott Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can agree with Paulo, POI is about generating/reading documents with a particular foramt, and that is very useful to jakarta and xml. I believe that if it came to Apache, if would belong under Jakarta, being a Java tool, and more

Re: [Request For Comment] POI @ apache

2002-01-04 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/4/02 12:00 PM, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) Related to POI. As long as they know the current state of Jakarta and can make an informed decision, and meet all the criteria described in http://jakarta.apache.org/site/newproject.html, then they have my +1. After all, what good

Re: Jakarta Status [was Code conventions]

2002-01-04 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/4/02 4:20 PM, Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They aren't even comparable, are they? Of course not. http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/dvsl/ When DVSL is integrated into Turbine's presentation layer and people are using it, the comparison will definitely be Cocoon2 vs.

Re: [Request For Comment] POI @ apache

2002-01-04 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/4/02 4:14 PM, Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That makes me wonder about the real causes of this whole fucking mess and jakarta is fucked up today feelings of yours... Of course. I forgot. I'm always wrong. Sorry. -jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cvs commit: jakarta-commons/beanutils build.xml

2002-01-04 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/4/02 4:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Conform to the recently agreed (on [EMAIL PROTECTED]) convention of including the Apache License inside the JAR file, at META-INF/LICENSE.txt How about documenting that convention on the website? -jon -- To unsubscribe,

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

2002-01-05 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/5/02 3:02 PM, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look closely, Xerces 2 is the designated successor to *both* Xerces 1 and Crimson. The developers *are* working together. I won't pretend that everything is 100% smooth sailing, but significant progress is being made. Yea...just like

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: Commons Validator Packaging/Content

2002-01-07 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/7/02 2:45 AM, Peter Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 21:33, Ceki Gulcu wrote: Peter, So are you proposing to become a log4j committer? Would there be a point to that? sarcasm Exactly. Collaboration on a single logging tool would be a terrible idea. /sarcasm -jon

Re: Commons Validator Packaging/Content

2002-01-07 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/7/02 8:55 AM, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be forewarned that the Apache tradition is to allow people with enough fire in their belly to tackle a particular problem that is important to them the freedom to do so. If the problems you see are something that you feel need

Re: Cross-pollination

2002-01-07 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/7/02 9:03 AM, Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing is for sure: both Gump and Forrest want to go in this direction: provide solid technological infrastructure in order for efforts to communicate, interoperate, share visions and exchange code, ideas and solutions. If

Re: Commons Validator Packaging/Content

2002-01-07 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/7/02 10:00 AM, Paulo Gaspar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I am seeing are the same signs Sam sees: Sam wrote: In my, admittedly biased, perspective, I see significant improvement in terms of community over the course of the past eleven months or so. For starters, the following

Re: Commons Validator Packaging/Content

2002-01-07 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/7/02 10:51 AM, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon Scott Stevens wrote: As far as I'm concerned, all Gump shows us is that projects have managed to quit breaking each others interfaces. Gump shows us that documents such as this: http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/common

Re: Cross-pollination

2002-01-07 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
the archives. Scott -Original Message- From: Jon Scott Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 9:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cross-pollination on 1/7/02 9:03 AM, Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing is for sure: both Gump

Re: Cross-pollination

2002-01-07 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/7/02 11:17 AM, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +1 I believe that if we continue to provide an useful structure, then the community will continue to build itself, in the way the community sees fit. We have grown to the size where we don't have structure anymore because no one

Re: Questions

2002-01-07 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/7/02 11:27 AM, Jon Scott Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If Sam gets hit by a bus tomorrow, who would be willing to step up and take over the PMC chairmanship? I should also add that my vote would be for #1. Geir and #2. Ceki. The reason is that they seem to be about the only two

Re: Questions

2002-01-07 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/7/02 11:34 AM, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not like everything would grind to a halt. That isn't my point and you didn't answer my question. :-) -jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: crushed

2002-01-07 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/7/02 12:44 PM, Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think many folks on the list aren't listening to each other let alone to someone from the outer circle. That is my complaint about not just this list, but the entire project. We have people like Ted and Craig who are perfectly

Re: crushed

2002-01-07 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/7/02 2:20 PM, Paul Hammant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We should be careful turning away projects as they may end up as GPL spit. Now that is the funniest reason I have heard for accepting projects here! :-) Thanks. I needed a good laugh. -jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Commons Validator Packaging/Content

2002-01-07 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/7/02 4:23 PM, Paulo Gaspar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if the peers agree with this process. My opinion is that there are to many peers in the process and that is what is breaking Jakarta. This wasn't a problem until now. We are starting to explode under our own ever growing weight. Jakarta

Re: Commons Validator Packaging/Content

2002-01-07 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/7/02 4:26 PM, Paulo Gaspar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which projects are those? Can you really compare them - and their community - with Jakarta? Jboss's success seems to be one project. I'm actually glad they went to sourceforge...they would have struggled to survive here... -jon -- To

Re: Questions

2002-01-07 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/7/02 5:11 PM, Paulo Gaspar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is that question important??? Paulo I'm curious. Is it now not permitted to ask a question out of curiosity? -jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: crushed

2002-01-07 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/7/02 5:41 PM, Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I was much younger I used to go on BBSes and post Which is better Amiga or IBM? and Why not just use a Mac? to see the fires rage. As I grew up I found more productive ways to spend my time. Code formatting is subjective.

Re: crushed

2002-01-07 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/7/02 5:10 PM, Paulo Gaspar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see you crying a lot over this but no POSITIVE initiative. That is because I don't see a way to fix the problems and I'm not sure I have the energy to actually go through with it anymore. I haven't seen you give any positive

Re: Commons Validator Packaging/Content

2002-01-07 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/7/02 7:30 PM, Paulo Gaspar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Jon is undervaluing Jakarta because he helped creating it and he is comparing what it is with what he dreamed it would be. Things tend not to work according to our high expectations. I'm sure that is very true. -jon -- To

Re: Proposal: Component survey

2002-01-07 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/7/02 7:19 PM, Kief Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Despite these problems, I think it'd be worth having around. Then take the reigns and just do it the way that you think it should be done. No need for a proposal. -jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: crushed

2002-01-07 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/7/02 7:27 PM, Tim Vernum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the project won't deal with gump nags, and can't keep their builds from breaking then they probably won't fit into Jakarta. Bingo. Great point. However, forcing a project to have gump nags is not something Sam is willing to dictate.

Re: Jakarta code search engine? (Re: crushed)

2002-01-07 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/7/02 7:59 PM, Paulo Gaspar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about just a version of this form: http://search.apache.org/ or a link to it??? Take a look at my previous posting (the crushed thread) for more details. It can be made (hidden fields I love you) to search any sub-domain

Re: crushed

2002-01-07 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/7/02 8:10 PM, Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with Sam here - you have to buy into the Gump nags and understand the value, or you are going to think it's an intrusive fussyness, which it is, actually :) Or you could think of it this way... Part of the 'privilege' of

Re: Jakarta code search engine? (Re: crushed)

2002-01-07 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/7/02 9:05 PM, Paulo Gaspar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No karma Submit a patch. , no clue on how to change a Jakarta web page! RTFM http://jakarta.apache.org/site/jakarta-site2.html Oh well, Geir did your work for you, so you don't learn anything. -jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

FW: email issues..

2002-01-08 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
Someone want to reply to this person directly? -jon -- Forwarded Message From: Eitan Suez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 08:43:09 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: email issues.. hi, i suspect that a recent attempt to block out spam on my mail server might have

Re: Commons Validator Packaging/Content

2002-01-08 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/8/02 3:13 AM, Peter Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so would collaboration on a web framework Pete This happened a long time ago (May 2000) on the PMC list: When Craig originally proposed Struts, I -1'd it. He assured me that he would be willing to collaborate together on Turbine and

Volunteer Wanted

2002-01-08 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
I want to remove my name from this page: http://www.apache.org/foundation/preFAQ.html I nominate Paulo to put his name there instead so that he can start contributing more than just being a pain in my ass. Is that cool? -jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: Volunteer Wanted

2002-01-08 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/8/02 11:57 AM, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd say it should be the [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good idea. Done. and if anyone, including Paulo, want to help out with the Webmaster emails, that would be great. Maybe you will get lucky and get a volunteer. -jon -- To unsubscribe,

Re: [PATCH] jakarta-site2/xdocs/site/mail.xml

2002-01-09 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/9/02 4:27 AM, Ceki Gulcu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Here is a patch jakarta-site2/xdocs/site/mail.xml, the source for the http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html page. The patch contains a few corrections, a sligt re-organisation and some stylistic changes. I think it

Re: License change for new year ?

2002-01-09 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/9/02 6:49 AM, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted Husted wrote: I think on a continuing basis, Committers should update the copyright notice to include the current year whenever they update a source file. This will happen most often in the early part of a year, but should happen

Re: Code conventions

2002-01-10 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/10/02 1:16 AM, GOMEZ Henri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOL! Are you taking these guys seriously? =;o) No, since Jon didn't participate to the thread ;) I heard that if you shorten the names of your variables and methods down to single letters, the execution speed increases by a factor

Re: [PATCH] project descriptions index.xml

2002-01-12 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/12/02 2:07 PM, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The site update system we have in place is actually quite sweet (thanks, Jon!). Thanks for the compliment. One of the first that I have gotten about the system. Most people can only complain. -jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: updating subproject websites

2002-01-13 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/13/02 12:50 PM, robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i find jakarta-site2.html a little bit confusing. so - as requested on the page - i'm providing some feedback :) Thanks for your feedback robert. -jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [PROPOSAL] Jakarta PMC bylaws change

2002-01-16 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/16/02 11:27 AM, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The number of PMC seats will be set at seven. Annually, all seven seats will be up for renewal. The ASF board will be asked to provide a person or persons to administer the nominations and a subsequent ballot. The administrator(s) will

Re: Struts vs. Turbine

2002-01-17 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/17/02 3:19 AM, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://nagoya.apache.org:8080/jyve-faq/Turbine/screen/DisplayQuestionAnswer/ac tion/SetAll/project_id/2/faq_id/36/topic_id/203/question_id/781 or (same thing)

Re: [PROPOSAL] POI @ Jakarta

2002-01-17 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
+1 I sure do give Andrew credit for perseverance. This also makes me feel confident that he will do what it takes to live under Jakarta. -jon on 1/17/02 11:45 AM, Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Proposal for POI - A Jakarta Subproject version 1.0 - 17 Jan 2002 (0) rationale

Re: Jakarta ORO NetComponents or some other Java FTP API?

2002-01-18 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/18/02 10:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get in touch with the Jakarta PMC to find out what the status is of accepting Daniel Savarese's ORO NetComponents to be part of Jakarta. It is up to him to submit a proposal. -jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: 'Bug' in site.vsl

2002-01-21 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/21/02 4:10 PM, dion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reason the source element isn't rendered as a box is that the site.vsl expects the source to be a direct child of the subsection No it doesn't. It expects it to be a child of section. For an example, look at

Re: 'Bug' in site.vsl

2002-01-22 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/21/02 11:23 PM, dion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me rephrase that. It expects it to be a direct child of either section or subsection . See site.vsl line 143. Exactly. It was designed that way. What is your problem again? -jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: 'Bug' in site.vsl

2002-01-22 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
No need to CC me, I'm on the list... on 1/22/02 1:20 AM, dion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 1/21/02 11:23 PM, dion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me rephrase that. It expects it to be a direct child of either section or subsection . See site.vsl line 143. Exactly. It was designed that way.

Re: 'Bug' in site.vsl

2002-01-22 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/22/02 10:43 AM, Geir Magnusson Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do and will do it in a femtosecond (starting Thursday, of course :) if people think it's ok to do so. There is little risk, as the xml content doesn't change, of course. And will move it back if people don't like it. As I

Re: ECS?? _TOP_ level project of Jakarta??

2002-01-29 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/29/02 4:42 AM, Endre Stølsvik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Example? Stefano pushed to get POI in, and there was *huge* pushback. At least heavy from Jon, as I remember it. I wasn't about to accept a half assed proposal. Is there anything wrong with that? The POI team took our feedback,

Re: ECS?? _TOP_ level project of Jakarta??

2002-01-29 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/29/02 8:52 AM, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes the reasons an implementation is lousy (or at least, not appropriate for the task at hand) are non-technical. Freemarker was a wonderful idea with a GPL implementation. Hence velocity was born. Just to be clear...

Re: ECS?? _TOP_ level project of Jakarta??

2002-01-29 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/29/02 11:54 AM, Endre Stølsvik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What would you like to see happen? Should we wipe the site with | something that has no activity? Should Jserv die because the last | release was forever ago? I think not. Jserv is a production server | that lives in many

Re: ECS?? _TOP_ level project of Jakarta??

2002-01-29 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/29/02 12:18 PM, Endre Stølsvik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not view me as an outsider, trying to use your cool stuff, not finding my way around, wading through small and big projects alike.. My point is that there is no such thing as an 'outsider'. You can become just as involved as I

Re: ECS?? _TOP_ level project of Jakarta??

2002-01-29 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/29/02 12:29 PM, Scott Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My goal is NOT to target other developers. My goal is to target users that *HAVE* to have exchange because they: 1) *HAVE* to use Outlook. 2) *HAVE* to have real groupware capabilities (calendaring, etc.) 3) Refuse to give up

Re: PMC Nomination

2002-01-30 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 2002.1.30 4:31 PM, Bojan Smojver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to nominate Geir Magnusson Jr. for the PMC. Geir is current PMC member. His dedication to Jakarta projects, especially Velocity, is undoubted. His support levels on Velocity project are unsurpassed, with response

Re: [Fwd: cvs commit: jakarta-site2/xdocs index.xml]

2002-01-30 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 2002.1.30 4:15 PM, Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My only issue and I guess this is directed more at you Jon, is it doesn't give me a clear idea about what we want. Can you give me a good idea and I'll be glad to submit a patch to that effect. It just seems like we should be

Jakarta PMC Nomination - Rejection

2002-02-01 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
Hey all, I just wanted to say that I'm not going to accept my Jakarta PMC nomination and do not want to be included in the voting for the next election. I have been involved with Java Apache/Jakarta since Sept 1996 and I think that it is time for me to move on from being politically responsible

Re: Jakarta PMC Nomination - Rejection

2002-02-03 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
Just to be clear, I'm not leaving Jakarta entirely, you will still have to put up with my bullshit every now and then...I'm just not going to participate in the PMC politics any longer... -jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Jakarta PMC Nomination - Rejection

2002-02-03 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 2/3/02 2:00 PM, Kevin A. Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you guys check out codecon - http://www.codecon.org It is going to be held at the DNA Lounge (and I will be speaking about Reptile)... Yea, that sounds like a fun event... hm... how long before Jon hosts an ApacheCon ??? ;)

Re: a tool for java api documentation

2002-02-04 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 2/4/02 4:23 PM, Eitan Suez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the dbdoc gui is jsp/template-based, which makes it much easier to maintain, revise, and/or enhance. To bad you didn't use Velocity, then I would believe your claim. :-) Anyway, when are you going to make this cool tool available as

Re: Java is dead... but it could still be saved!

2002-02-05 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 2/5/02 10:55 AM, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the other hand the porting tool already exists. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualj/jump/. Yet the hordes still remain. - Sam Ruby My favorite quote: The Java Language Conversion Assistant has been developed independently by

[ANN] Apache's Position on the JSPA (was: Re: [Fwd: cvs commit:jakarta-site2/xdocs index.xml])

2002-02-05 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/30/02 4:15 PM, Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My only issue and I guess this is directed more at you Jon, is it doesn't give me a clear idea about what we want. Can you give me a good idea and I'll be glad to submit a patch to that effect. It just seems like we should be

O'Reilly article about the JSPA

2002-02-14 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
With a link back to our position paper... http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/02/13/osjava.html It is so sad that Sun is slowly killing support for Java. What a way to shoot yourself in the foot. -jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: ApacheForge

2002-02-20 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 2/20/02 8:35 AM, Vladimir Bossicard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I haven't found an 'Apache' manual. Because it would take a HUGE amount of effort to create and maintain a manual like that. The people who know the manual don't have the itch to create the manual because there is always

Re: ApacheForge

2002-02-20 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 2/20/02 9:22 AM, Jon Scott Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 2/20/02 8:35 AM, Vladimir Bossicard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I haven't found an 'Apache' manual. Because it would take a HUGE amount of effort to create and maintain a manual like that. The people who know the manual

Re: Apache Manual (was ApacheForge)

2002-02-20 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
I don't think you understood what I said...so let me repeat... You give me a TOC and I will review and comment on it. :-) -jon on 2/20/02 9:50 AM, Paul Hammant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon, Give us a TOC for what you think might be a good starting point. That said, I will do my

Re: Apache Manual (was ApacheForge)

2002-02-20 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 2/20/02 10:03 AM, Fernandez Martinez, Alejandro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not start it yourself and anyone can suggest changes. I love it when people 'get it'. :-) On the other hand, why not start it myself. Something like this: You kick ass. Note that the majority of your bullet

Re: Apache Manual (was ApacheForge)

2002-02-21 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 2/21/02 4:31 AM, Fernandez Martinez, Alejandro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, including the valuable contributions of Marc and Jon, the annotated Apache manual TOC would look like this. Now, format it as an xdoc .xml file @see http://jakarta.apache.org/site/jakarta-site2.html and lets run

Re: HUP - Heap Usage Profiler

2002-02-26 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
It really bothers me that people think that this is a forum for announcing their new OSS efforts...*especially* ones that are under the GPL. I don't really care how helpful their project might be...this isn't the forum for it. Totally un-cool. Don't abuse this resource. general@jakarta isn't

Re: Jakarta PMC 2002: Results of the Ballot.

2002-02-26 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 2/26/02 7:20 AM, Pier Fumagalli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 7 people with the largest number of votes (in alphabetical order): Stefan Bodewig Craig McClanahan Diane Holt Conor MacNeill Geir Magnusson Jr. Costin

Re: update POI web

2002-02-28 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 2/28/02 4:54 AM, Peter Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to do it but someone *sough* sanders *cough* needs to change thier umask because they updated your website and forgot to make it world writeable ;) Not 'world' writeable...it should be 'group' writeable. Scott, put this in

StudioZ (was: Re: JakartaOne?)

2002-03-04 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
I would love to host JakartaOne at Studio Z. I think it would be a lot of fun. For free. * However, I do need to know the day/time/length of the event as well as what other things will be needed (chairs/tables/whatever). Unless some people here volunteers, I can look into getting some great

Re: StudioZ (was: Re: JakartaOne?)

2002-03-04 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
Ok, how does Tue, March 26th sound? If that works, then I need you guys to pick a time range... -jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: StudioZ (was: Re: JakartaOne?)

2002-03-04 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 3/4/02 12:38 PM, Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we do that, we can do something technical as well in the Covalent space? I don't think that would be a good idea because then you would be asking people to travel all over town. Just do the event in StudioZ...we have two

Re: Back to JakartaOne planning...

2002-03-06 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 3/6/02 7:40 AM, Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My only concern is that I since it appears to be a short schlep, you can't just run over from java1 to jak1 and back - it sounds like you would have to commit to go and stay.. It is a 5 minute taxi ride and there are TONS of

Re: [VOTE] ASL vs. GPL page: is this okay?

2002-03-06 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 3/6/02 4:52 PM, Marc Saegesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would love to see a document describes the Apache Software License, the philosophy behind it and why we think the ASL is a good thing. Probably suggesting more content for this page would be a good idea:

One more time...JakartaOne

2002-03-07 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
Well, given that there is only 19 days until the 26th and given that I haven't seen any discussion about JakartaOne other than some 'ideas' that people keep throwing out there (and no actual committee being formed to handle the planning and no decisions being made), it appears to me that no one

Re: One more time...JakartaOne

2002-03-07 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 3/7/02 1:52 PM, Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for the rest, if you could give some indication of what would be necessary for us to do - do we have to arrange for anything in the social space such as refreshments, or is that available from StudioZ? I need to know expected

Re: License issue (the come back)

2002-03-12 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 3/12/02 7:05 AM, Guillaume Rousse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So we did, and here is the result You didn't find licenses for a lot of software that has licenses...instead of saying 'no license' which implies that it does not have a license, you should have stated ('could not find a

Re: License issue (the come back)

2002-03-12 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 3/12/02 4:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only possible conclusion is that software shouldn't be redistributed without a lawyer checking and aproving every included license, and we need a list of licenses that are acceptable for inclusion on packages we distribute (

Re: License issue (the come back)

2002-03-12 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 3/12/02 5:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that the list should be reversed - i.e. what licences are _allowed_ and verified by a lawyer. And we have 2 issues - what jars are allowed in CVS, and what jars are allowed in the binary software we distribute.

Re: License issue (the come back)

2002-03-13 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 3/13/02 9:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Implementing a published API/specification have nothing to do with reverse-engineering and I don't think it is prohibited. Nope. It isn't. I re-implemented a BEA specification (dbKona) based on their publicly available javadoc's.

Borland, Fujitsu, HP, IONA, Nokia, and Oracle voted with Sun tolock Open Source out of Java.

2002-03-13 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
I like the title. :-) http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news.html#0313.1 -jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Borland, Fujitsu, HP, IONA, Nokia, and Oracle voted with Sunto lock Open Source out of Java.

2002-03-14 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 3/14/02 7:53 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon, I believe their vote was to allow the proposal to move on to public review stage. And I believe this is the _right_ thing to do. Why bother? In other words, if after the public review stage, it all ends up changing again,

Re: Can we get a pretty page with a Do this if you care WAS Re:Borland, Fujitsu, HP, IONA, Nokia, and Oracle voted with Sun tolock OpenSource out of Java.

2002-03-14 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 3/14/02 6:06 PM, Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to continue to help on this so far I guess I got this as the top story on www.javalobby.org (my local hometown java site). The overwhelming number of clueless idiot troll postings on that site is depressing and makes me

Re: LICENSE in .jar files

2002-03-14 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 3/14/02 6:09 PM, Kevin A. Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be a good protocol to put a LICENSE file in .jar files under META-INF ? Sure. *poof* it is now done in all of the Jakarta projects. Don't you like magic like that? -jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Micro JakartaOne

2002-03-15 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 3/15/02 5:18 AM, Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions for a good restaurant anyone? There are a bazillion good restaurants in SF. You just pick the style of food you want and I can list off about 100 for each style. Also, I'm still willing to show people the club,

Re: the POI site is unreadable in Netscape

2002-03-17 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 3/17/02 7:01 PM, Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually we use centepede/cocoon. But wow. I just checked the new stylesheets with NS 4.7x and boy it sure does look weird. I'm reporting this and hopefully it will be fixed soon. Admittedly, nearly everyone on the project

Re: the POI site is unreadable in Netscape

2002-03-17 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 3/17/02 8:17 PM, Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Granted, Anakia is faster and seems to work nicely. I'm not keen on learning to write vsl files in the near and immediate future, maybe one day (I hate writing xsl files enough). As far as the page not working in Netscape,

Re: The Complete Server Platform?

2002-03-19 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 3/19/02 8:36 AM, Daniel Rall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pete Chown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel Rall wrote: Does the bytecode interpreter [from gcj] handle class loading yet? Yes. You can invoke the bytecode interpreter directly with gij if you don't want to compile. Gij will

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