Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-21 Thread James Duncan Davidson
on 2/15/01 11:56 AM, Craig R. McClanahan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have any time to waste on anarchy-based shared code repositories. I have lots of time to spend, and useful code to contribute, to a shared repository that I know I can confidently use in my projects, based on

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-17 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote: "Geir Magnusson Jr." wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone chooses to duplicate a piece of code, maybe the problem is with the way the code is written and shared. I think in some cases, its bacause people aren't aware that the stuff exists.

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-16 Thread Kief Morris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] typed the following on 04:17 PM 2/15/2001 -0800 Seriously speaking - I am very concerned with the content of the library - I have a feeling that some people would like one book for each subject. I think that would be a very big step backwards. My hope is that the "library"

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-16 Thread Ted Husted
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seriously speaking - I am very concerned with the content of the library - I have a feeling that some people would like one book for each subject. I think that would be a very big step backwards. My hope is that the "library" project will be organized in a way that

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-16 Thread Ted Husted
Sam Ruby wrote: the name of the mailing list should match the name of the subproject. I'm willing to create the mailing list in anticipation of the project being created, but it like to be sure that the name is what everybody wants. The name is one of the things we would discuss on the

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-16 Thread cmanolache
My hope is that the "library" project will be organized in a way that allows multiple "books" in each collection. I agree, it's important to allow different ideas to flower rather than impose a "one true way" philosophy. But I also think it's important to keep strong quality control on

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-16 Thread cmanolache
My own hope is that each component be treated like a book, with it's own publication date, edition count, and set of authors and editors. And again - we'll act as librarians and make sure the book is available, not as censors or authors of competing books. For this branch, we probably need

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-16 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The project should _host_ and maintain code that is shared by projects, not _develop_ utils that may be needed ( like CPAN, or alexandria ). How can that work in the current "project committer" model? I agree that it should be open to accept projects from the

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-16 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone chooses to duplicate a piece of code, maybe the problem is with the way the code is written and shared. I think in some cases, its bacause people aren't aware that the stuff exists. Go through the Jakarta project sites, and find the number of places that

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-16 Thread Ted Husted
"Geir Magnusson Jr." wrote: Jakarta is rich in general-use tools. We just need to get them out into the light of day, documented, and supported directly, not incidentally as part of larger projects. I believe you and I are on the same page, Geir. Costin wants to go a different way with this.

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-16 Thread cmanolache
The project should _host_ and maintain code that is shared by projects, not _develop_ utils that may be needed ( like CPAN, or alexandria ). How can that work in the current "project committer" model? I agree that it should be open to accept projects from the 'outside', but I think

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-16 Thread cmanolache
If someone chooses to duplicate a piece of code, maybe the problem is with the way the code is written and shared. I think in some cases, its bacause people aren't aware that the stuff exists. Go through the Jakarta project sites, and find the number of places that offer a separate,

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-16 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone chooses to duplicate a piece of code, maybe the problem is with the way the code is written and shared. I think in some cases, its bacause people aren't aware that the stuff exists. Go through the Jakarta project sites, and find the number of

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-16 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
"Geir Magnusson Jr." wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone chooses to duplicate a piece of code, maybe the problem is with the way the code is written and shared. I think in some cases, its bacause people aren't aware that the stuff exists. Go through the Jakarta project sites,

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-16 Thread Morgan Delagrange
Hear hear! I think that Taglibs is an excellent model for a library-oriented subproject. Here are some features of Taglibs (some overlap with Craig's comments) that I think would translate quite well: * individual landing pages for each taglib (essentially sub-subprojects) *

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-15 Thread Peter Donald
At 07:26 12/2/01 -0500, Ted Husted wrote: On 2/9/2001 at 8:12 AM Sam Ruby wrote: I would suggest that you start with a proposed code base. Going back over the posts, there seem to be at least five clear areas of overlap: * DataSource/Database Pool * XML Configuration +1 * Message Resources /

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-15 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
Peter Donald wrote: I would also like to hear from the struts bean utils. I haven't looked at them but I presume they would be general enough (or could be made so) so Ant2.x could use it (ie remove converter/introspector elemenets from Ant2.0 codebase). They are -- and they have

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-15 Thread David Weinrich
Ok, sorry I was a bit late on the draw here, while I doubt my programming skills are up to snuff, I would love to help out with the following in any way I can: DATASOURCE/DATABASE POOL +1 I can test the heck out of these and perhaps help with a bit of the documentation... SUBPROJECT

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-15 Thread Ted Husted
"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote: I haven't voted yet in this thread because I haven't seen anyone else say "let's figure out the process issues first." I guess it's not as interesting as writing code :-), but it is very much as important to a shared resource like this. My thinking on the next

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-15 Thread Ted Husted
David Weinrich wrote: Ok, sorry I was a bit late on the draw here Glad to have you aboard, David, especially since as near as I can figure, you're the one that started this thread! http://www.mail-archive.com/general@jakarta.apache.org/msg00018.html (This time, at least ;-) -Ted.

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-15 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
Ted Husted wrote: There are many packages which would make good candidates for the library. To find a starting set, I simply looked for packages where there was already overlap. But, if no one disagrees, let's hereby amend the POLL to include -- [Struts] Bean Introspection support -

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-15 Thread Sam Ruby
Ted Husted wrote: Also in the usual way, these discussions could take place on an interim list (off Jakarta) to which the proposed committers, and other interested parties, can subscribe. Why off Jakarta? Whilst this group seems to have difficulty agreeing on anything grin, perhaps a

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-15 Thread Sam Ruby
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: Call it 'Rupert'. Be careful, that name might stick. ;-) I mean, with Tomcat 4, nothing really guarantees that you won't abandon Servlet 2.3 for the Wiggly Green Spec from Planet Mongo, but I trust that you will stick to your 'mission'... :) The are *SOME*

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-15 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
Sam Ruby wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: Call it 'Rupert'. Be careful, that name might stick. ;-) That would be fine - forward progress! I guess the logo would be next... :) I mean, with Tomcat 4, nothing really guarantees that you won't abandon Servlet 2.3 for the Wiggly Green

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-15 Thread Ted Husted
Sam Ruby wrote: Whilst this group seems to have difficulty agreeing on anything grin, perhaps a proposal to create a new list could get enough support? Heck, it might even get some +1's from people that DON'T want to be subjected to this discussion any more. ;-) Ok, based on the response

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-15 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
Ted Husted wrote: Sam Ruby wrote: Whilst this group seems to have difficulty agreeing on anything grin, perhaps a proposal to create a new list could get enough support? Heck, it might even get some +1's from people that DON'T want to be subjected to this discussion any more. ;-)

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-15 Thread Ted Husted
"Geir Magnusson Jr." wrote: You might think then that each partition could manage it's own issues, like the projects do. So given http://www.mail-archive.com/general@jakarta.apache.org/msg00154.html are we on the same page, Geir? Basically, I just want to nest everything we do for

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-15 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
"Geir Magnusson Jr." wrote: Sam Ruby wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: Call it 'Rupert'. Be careful, that name might stick. ;-) That would be fine - forward progress! I guess the logo would be next... :) I mean, with Tomcat 4, nothing really guarantees that you won't

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-15 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
Jon Stevens wrote: on 2/15/01 2:19 PM, "Craig R. McClanahan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Turbine's pool (still) does not do this -- and that makes perfect sense, because it existed before the DataSource API was standardized. Changing Turbine's pool to conform to this would break the

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-15 Thread Jon Stevens
on 2/15/01 3:24 PM, "Craig R. McClanahan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I would not recommend it ... the turbine-pool.jar file drags along ~40 classes of Turbine infrastructure that aren't useful unless you are running inside Turbine. What *exactly* is the problem with that? Of course,

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-15 Thread Sam Ruby
Craig R. McClanahan wrote: I just don't want to work with you (and the attitudes you carry) on Turbine. Hmmm. As release manager of Tomcat 4.0, you appear quite willing to ship code that he (and the attitudes that he carries) has committed to that cvs tree. But code that the same person

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-15 Thread Sam Ruby
Ted Husted wrote: may we please have a interim Jakarta "libary" mailing list for the purpose of formaling the details of a proposal for this subproject. Are you sure that you want to call it that. ;-) Beyond the typo...the name of the mailing list should match the name of the subproject.

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-15 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
Sam Ruby wrote: Craig R. McClanahan wrote: I just don't want to work with you (and the attitudes you carry) on Turbine. Hmmm. As release manager of Tomcat 4.0, you appear quite willing to ship code that he (and the attitudes that he carries) has committed to that cvs tree. You

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-15 Thread cmanolache
Ted Husted wrote: may we please have a interim Jakarta "libary" mailing list for the purpose of formaling the details of a proposal for this subproject. Are you sure that you want to call it that. ;-) Beyond the typo...the name of the mailing list should match the name of the

RE: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-12 Thread Ignacio J. Ortega
* DataSource/Database Pool +1 * XML Configuration +1 * Message Resources / i18n +1 * JNDI / Naming * Testing Suites Saludos , Ignacio J. Ortega - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-12 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
Ted Husted wrote: On 2/9/2001 at 8:12 AM Sam Ruby wrote: I would suggest that you start with a proposed code base. Going back over the posts, there seem to be at least five clear areas of overlap: * DataSource/Database Pool +1 * XML Configuration +1 geir -- Geir Magnusson Jr.