Re: Is Cactus successful (was RE: [PROPOSAL] Tapestry joins Jakarta)

2002-10-22 Thread Steve Downey
On Sunday 20 October 2002 02:03 pm, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: Release more often, announce the releases. While you may have had articles published, I've never actually seen one. (I've seen them on Maven, Tomcat, Velocity, Struts to no end, Cocoon, Struts). I found the best approach to this is

Re: Is Cactus successful (was RE: [PROPOSAL] Tapestry joins Jakarta)

2002-10-22 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Cool! Suggestions? I have never actually gotten a reply from an editor himself. Of course for project validty, it may be better to have a non-prinicipal contribute (if I write about POI it will not likely be viewed as objective but someone who has written about other APIs will probably get

Re: Is Cactus successful (was RE: [PROPOSAL] Tapestry joins Jakarta)

2002-10-22 Thread Steve Downey
I don't think I've ever NOT gotten a reply. It has been a few years since I've written, but I doubt things have changed that much. Getting enough decent technical material for a magazine is always a problem. Writing can be fixed by an editor, although it's better if it doesn't have to be fixed

Re: Is Cactus successful (was RE: [PROPOSAL] Tapestry joins Jakarta)

2002-10-22 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
That's awesome information. Thank you for this! I got no reply from Javaworld or Dr. Dobbs, but I had not tried JDJ. I wrote Tony Stintes and got no reply, but I think this: http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javaqa/2002-05/01-qa-0503-excel3.html was sufficient reply. Somehow we managed

Is Cactus successful (was RE: [PROPOSAL] Tapestry joins Jakarta)

2002-10-20 Thread Vincent Massol
Hi Andrew, -Original Message- From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:acoliver;apache.org] Sent: 20 October 2002 16:09 To: 'Jakarta General List' Subject: RE: [PROPOSAL] Tapestry joins Jakarta Just FYI, you have failed to provide sufficient outside-of-jakarta marketing. Thanks for the

RE: Is Cactus successful (was RE: [PROPOSAL] Tapestry joins Jakarta)

2002-10-20 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
I'm sorry to have insulted you. I was only trying to help. Based on what you said, the observations I'd had from where I work and what I'd observed. If my observations were incorrect I apologize. Hey, your observations may be right and I appreciate your help! ;-) My strong reaction

RE: Is Cactus successful (was RE: [PROPOSAL] Tapestry joins Jakarta)

2002-10-20 Thread Vincent Massol
-Original Message- From: Henri Yandell [mailto:bayard;generationjava.com] Sent: 20 October 2002 20:36 To: Jakarta General List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Is Cactus successful (was RE: [PROPOSAL] Tapestry joins Jakarta) On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Vincent Massol wrote

RE: Is Cactus successful (was RE: [PROPOSAL] Tapestry joins Jakarta)

2002-10-20 Thread Henri Yandell
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Vincent Massol wrote: Ok I want to be positive and try to see if there's anything I can do to improve the overall Cactus community. You say Cactus might be missing some marketing muscles. I would like to believe that. From the information in my email do you still

RE: Is Cactus successful (was RE: [PROPOSAL] Tapestry joins Jakarta)

2002-10-20 Thread Vincent Massol
-Original Message- From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:acoliver;apache.org] Sent: 20 October 2002 18:32 To: 'Jakarta General List' Subject: Re: Is Cactus successful (was RE: [PROPOSAL] Tapestry joins Jakarta) Just FYI, you have failed to provide sufficient outside-of-jakarta

RE: Is Cactus successful (was RE: [PROPOSAL] Tapestry joins Jakarta)

2002-10-20 Thread Vincent Massol
-Original Message- From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:acoliver;apache.org] Sent: 20 October 2002 19:03 To: Vincent Massol Cc: 'Jakarta General List' Subject: RE: Is Cactus successful (was RE: [PROPOSAL] Tapestry joins Jakarta) I'm sorry to have insulted you. I was only trying

Re: Is Cactus successful (was RE: [PROPOSAL] Tapestry joins Jakarta)

2002-10-20 Thread Ellis Teer
If you check the cactus stats (http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/stats/index.html), you will find it is receiving quite a lot of attention (1500-2500 visits per day). It gets between 500-1500 downloads per day which is quite honorable for such a niche project (not only it is unit testing but only

Re: Is Cactus successful (was RE: [PROPOSAL] Tapestry joins Jakarta)

2002-10-20 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Just FYI, you have failed to provide sufficient outside-of-jakarta marketing. Thanks for the information! You know what I like about you? It is the faith that you have in yourself and in the fact that you know it all... I'm sorry to have insulted you. I was only trying to help.