Re: mailing lists for components [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-07-05 Thread Felipe Leme
Martin Cooper wrote: +1 to just one dev and one user list, shared for all components, a la Jakarta Commons. Me too... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mailing lists for components [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-07-03 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 14:33 -0400, Martin Cooper wrote: On 6/23/05, robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:40 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: 4.1 in the guidelines repeats the error that I thought was fixed in the j-c guidelines saying that each package has

Re: new components [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-07-03 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 12:27 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: Martin Cooper wrote: On 6/23/05, robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:40 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: snip Interpreted literally, 17 goes against standard practice in jakarta (or apache, to my

Re: new components [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-07-03 Thread Phil Steitz
robert burrell donkin wrote: snip/ Agreed. After a little more discussion, we should rewrite this. +1 anyone feel like jumping volunteering to come up with a draft? Working on this now... Phil - To unsubscribe,

Re: sandbox [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-07-02 Thread Martin Cooper
On 6/25/05, Stephen Colebourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rahul Akolkar wrote: is boils down to the question: does this subproject need it's own sandbox or will neophyte components start in the jakarta commons sandbox? +1 for sandbox (non-binding) Its slightly hard to imagine anything

Re: [POLL] drop point 12 [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-07-02 Thread Martin Cooper
On 6/25/05, Stephen Colebourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: robert burrell donkin wrote: this has proved impractical in the jakarta commons. i propose we drop point 12. 12. The subproject will also provide a single JAR of all stable package releases. It may also provide a second JAR with a

Re: mailing lists for components [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-07-02 Thread Martin Cooper
On 6/23/05, robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:40 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: 4.1 in the guidelines repeats the error that I thought was fixed in the j-c guidelines saying that each package has its own mailing list. If that is intentional, I think that

Re: new components [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-07-02 Thread Martin Cooper
On 6/23/05, robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:40 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: snip Interpreted literally, 17 goes against standard practice in jakarta (or apache, to my knowledge, other than in the incubator). I would recommend that new packages

Re: new components [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-07-02 Thread Phil Steitz
Martin Cooper wrote: On 6/23/05, robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:40 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: snip Interpreted literally, 17 goes against standard practice in jakarta (or apache, to my knowledge, other than in the incubator). I would recommend that

Re: sandbox [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-06-25 Thread Stephen Colebourne
Rahul Akolkar wrote: is boils down to the question: does this subproject need it's own sandbox or will neophyte components start in the jakarta commons sandbox? +1 for sandbox (non-binding) Its slightly hard to imagine anything otherwise, but maybe I'm just used to seeing how commons and

Re: [POLL] drop point 12 [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-06-25 Thread Stephen Colebourne
robert burrell donkin wrote: this has proved impractical in the jakarta commons. i propose we drop point 12. 12. The subproject will also provide a single JAR of all stable package releases. It may also provide a second JAR with a subset of only JDK 1.1 compatible releases. A gump of nightly

Re: configuration files [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-06-25 Thread Stephen Colebourne
robert burrell donkin wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:40 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: 9 or somewhere else should speak to J2EE or other external config requirments, which should be fine, even encouraged in some cases is 9 needed? are any configuration guidelines needed? if they are then i

Re: configuration files [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-06-25 Thread Phil Steitz
Stephen Colebourne wrote: robert burrell donkin wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:40 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: 9 or somewhere else should speak to J2EE or other external config requirments, which should be fine, even encouraged in some cases is 9 needed? are any configuration guidelines

Re: sandbox [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-06-24 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
I would love to see a very light weight WebDAV servlet which could be taken from Tomcat. Oliver On 6/24/05, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just looking within Jakarta, the following all jump out as initial code: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/commons/sandbox/servlet/ has a

Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications

2005-06-23 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:40 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: snip Here are some comments on the draft charter. It is nice to see so much borrowed from the (at least I think) successful j-c model ;-) everything borrowed, in fact. not that it'll stay that way for long... A couple of things

mailing lists for components [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-06-23 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:40 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: 4.1 in the guidelines repeats the error that I thought was fixed in the j-c guidelines saying that each package has its own mailing list. If that is intentional, I think that is a *bad* idea, especially to start. it was intentional in

configuration files [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-06-23 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:40 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: 9 or somewhere else should speak to J2EE or other external config requirments, which should be fine, even encouraged in some cases is 9 needed? are any configuration guidelines needed? if they are then i agree that they should encourage

[POLL] drop point 12 [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-06-23 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:40 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: snip Don't know what kind of goo 12 would result in or who would use such a thing ;-) this has proved impractical in the jakarta commons. i propose we drop point 12. - robert

new components [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-06-23 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:40 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: snip Interpreted literally, 17 goes against standard practice in jakarta (or apache, to my knowledge, other than in the incubator). I would recommend that new packages require existing committers to support them. I would at least

sandbox [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-06-23 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:40 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: snip I guess 18 refers to the sandbox? I do not understand what the intent of this is. is boils down to the question: does this subproject need it's own sandbox or will neophyte components start in the jakarta commons sandbox? - robert

Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications

2005-06-23 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:40 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: snip One final thing to think about. I know lots of apache people are opposed to umbrella projects for lots of reasons, one of which is the fragmentation and abandonment that can result. We have certainly not been immune to that in

Re: sandbox [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-06-23 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
In reading through this all, I have a concern that it will be difficult for any outside code to come in. Indeed it has proven difficult for many people I have spoken to to get code into any Commons project (although I myself had some things accepted, so clearly it is not impossible). What

Re: [POLL] drop point 12 [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-06-23 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
I'm not sure I understand #12... is it talking about providing a JAR of a release for archival purposes? I would like to see this project adopt the packaging scheme my own Java Web Parts project has in that each actual Java package is JAR'd separately. That way a developer can easily pick

Re: [POLL] drop point 12 [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-06-23 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
I'm not sure I understand #12... is it talking about providing a JAR of a release for archival purposes? I would like to see this project adopt the packaging scheme my own Java Web Parts project has in that each actual Java package is JAR'd separately. That way a developer can easily pick and

Re: mailing lists for components [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-06-23 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On 6/23/05, robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:40 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: 4.1 in the guidelines repeats the error that I thought was fixed in the j-c guidelines saying that each package has its own mailing list. If that is intentional, I think that

Re: [POLL] drop point 12 [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-06-23 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On 6/23/05, robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:40 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: snip Don't know what kind of goo 12 would result in or who would use such a thing ;-) this has proved impractical in the jakarta commons. i propose we drop point 12. -

Re: sandbox [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-06-23 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On 6/23/05, robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:40 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: snip I guess 18 refers to the sandbox? I do not understand what the intent of this is. is boils down to the question: does this subproject need it's own sandbox or will

Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications

2005-06-23 Thread Henri Yandell
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Stephen Colebourne wrote: robert burrell donkin wrote: there have been a number of long running threads in the commons discussing the possibility of commons components for use in web applications. the consensus emerged that it would be best if a new subproject with a

Re: sandbox [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-06-23 Thread Henri Yandell
Just looking within Jakarta, the following all jump out as initial code: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/commons/sandbox/servlet/ has a couple of classes (as you know :) ). Taglibs of course, I estimate half a dozen to ten taglibs. Commons FileUploa. Commons Http

Re: sandbox [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-06-23 Thread Phil Steitz
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: In reading through this all, I have a concern that it will be difficult for any outside code to come in. Indeed it has proven difficult for many people I have spoken to to get code into any Commons project (although I myself had some things accepted, so clearly it is

Re: [POLL] drop point 12 [WAS Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications]

2005-06-23 Thread Phil Steitz
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: I'm not sure I understand #12... is it talking about providing a JAR of a release for archival purposes? I think that in the early (actually as recently as a year or so ago) days of Jakarta Commons, a combo jar was produced that included *all* of the commons

Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications

2005-06-22 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 15:34 -0400, Frank W. Zammetti wrote: robert burrell donkin wrote: web parts is a good name. I thought so... that's why I chose it ;) trademarks are of particular importance for the ASF but it's also important to do the right thing ethically. i wouldn't be

Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications

2005-06-22 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
robert burrell donkin wrote: that's understandable but is likely to cause wrinkles in the approval process. a subproject needs a name and a charter before it can be approved. no guarantees could be offered since accepting new committers is something that sould be delegated to the new community.

Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications

2005-06-22 Thread Martin Cooper
Can we please separate the two different topics being discussed here? The original purpose of this discussion was to see if there is general concensus that a Webapp Commons (or whatever name we end up with) is a good idea. If we think it is, then we need to develop a charter, come up with a

Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications

2005-06-22 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
I'll step back and let you guys get it off the ground then... However, the one point that I believe to be very relevant at this junction, in light of what Robert has said about a name being required up-front, is that I may not be willing to give up the Java Web Parts name. Since that was one

Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications

2005-06-22 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 16:53 -0400, Frank W. Zammetti wrote: I'll step back and let you guys get it off the ground then... no one's asking you to step back :) the reason why this discussion was moved to this forum was to encourage people to get involved with the discussion and help to shape the

Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications

2005-06-22 Thread Phil Steitz
Stephen Colebourne wrote: robert burrell donkin wrote: there have been a number of long running threads in the commons discussing the possibility of commons components for use in web applications. the consensus emerged that it would be best if a new subproject with a structure similar to the

Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications

2005-06-22 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:40 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: Stephen Colebourne wrote: robert burrell donkin wrote: there have been a number of long running threads in the commons discussing the possibility of commons components for use in web applications. the consensus emerged that it would

Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications

2005-06-17 Thread Stephen Colebourne
robert burrell donkin wrote: there have been a number of long running threads in the commons discussing the possibility of commons components for use in web applications. the consensus emerged that it would be best if a new subproject with a structure similar to the commons was created for

Re: [PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications

2005-06-17 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Java Web Parts is the name of the SF project I began that is exactly what is being described here. Not that I have a trademark on it or anything, and besides, I don't have enough lawyers to trademark common words, like oh, I don't know, Windows?!? :) Incidentally, I was one of the people

[PROPOSAL] subproject that's a home for bricks reusable in java web applications

2005-06-16 Thread robert burrell donkin
there have been a number of long running threads in the commons discussing the possibility of commons components for use in web applications. the consensus emerged that it would be best if a new subproject with a structure similar to the commons was created for components intended for use in web