Re: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace

2004-11-02 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Mon, 01 Nov 2004, Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, let me rephrase my proposal: If a project: 1) is not an ASF project 2) no ASF project depend on it 3) has been broken for a while and shows no sign of activity (gump-wise) +1 Stefan

Re: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace

2004-11-02 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Eric Pugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please see my thread about removing commons-xo [1] for an example of one project that we can get rid of. I may be nitpicking, but commons-xo builds fine in Gump if you use Ant instead of Maven. The main problem is that XO declares

Re: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace

2004-11-02 Thread Stefan Bodewig
Since Leo and Conor already raised the biggest concerns I had with your initial proposal I don't need to talk about them 8-) I'd like to add one thing, though. Sometimes leaves turn into nodes. ant-contrib is such a beast which was a leave for a long time (when I abused my committer power to add

Re: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace

2004-11-02 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Mon, 01 Nov 2004, Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's why it took 3 years and several burned-out people to reach 85%. Oh, we had 100% once. And we've been in the 80% area before excalibur moved out of Avalon as well. The biggest problems that made us drop to low success

RE: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace

2004-11-02 Thread Eric Pugh
I've removed it. -Original Message- From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 9:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Eric Pugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace

2004-11-02 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Stefan Bodewig wrote: Since Leo and Conor already raised the biggest concerns I had with your initial proposal I don't need to talk about them 8-) I'd like to add one thing, though. Sometimes leaves turn into nodes. ant-contrib is such a beast which was a leave for a long time (when I abused my

Re: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace

2004-11-01 Thread Leo Simons
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: there are a few projects that gump builds that are not ASF projects and are not used by any ASF project. I'm not sure which projects this is about (or what the projects you listed are about), but I can imagine that these projects are built against the latest and

Re: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace

2004-11-01 Thread Conor MacNeill
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Conor MacNeill wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: WTDY? The downside of this idea is that ASF projects will lose warnings about incompatible changes they make that break non-ASF projects. I said: remove non-ASF project that ASF projects don't depend upon. You are talking

Re: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace

2004-11-01 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Monday 01 November 2004 17:02, Conor MacNeill wrote: In effect, barcode4J acts as a testcase for its dependencies and you propose to remove that test. I understand the motivation, I'm not particularly concerned, but there is a potential downside, which I thought was worth noting. Very good

Re: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace

2004-11-01 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Monday 01 November 2004 17:00, Leo Simons wrote: Kaffe is very much a leaf not a dependency (I know no ASF project that can only be built using Kaffe), yet using it for experimental runs doubles the amount of cpu and disk space used. For the record, there are 8 attempts at starting a Gump

Re: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace

2004-11-01 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Monday 01 November 2004 19:29, Eric Pugh wrote: Related to this, I am starting to think about dependencies not just in a is it a good dependency to have but in a what challenges will having this dependency give me in Gump land, which isn't a great thing... Hmmm... I wonder if such thought

RE: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace

2004-11-01 Thread Eric Pugh
code and data Subject: Re: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace On Monday 01 November 2004 19:29, Eric Pugh wrote: Related to this, I am starting to think about dependencies not just in a is it a good dependency to have but in a what challenges will having

Re: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace

2004-11-01 Thread Dalibor Topic
Niclas Hedhman niclas at hedhman.org writes: On Monday 01 November 2004 17:00, Leo Simons wrote: Kaffe is very much a leaf not a dependency (I know no ASF project that can only be built using Kaffe), yet using it for experimental runs doubles the amount of cpu and disk space used.

Re: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace

2004-11-01 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Conor MacNeill wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Conor MacNeill wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: WTDY? The downside of this idea is that ASF projects will lose warnings about incompatible changes they make that break non-ASF projects. I said: remove non-ASF project that ASF projects don't depend

Re: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace

2004-11-01 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Monday 01 November 2004 17:00, Leo Simons wrote: Kaffe is very much a leaf not a dependency (I know no ASF project that can only be built using Kaffe), yet using it for experimental runs doubles the amount of cpu and disk space used. For the record, there are 8 attempts

Re: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace

2004-11-01 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Eric Pugh wrote: I think it comes down to maintence. If projects have active committers who are trying to fix them when they break, then great, lets keep them. Regardless of where they come from. But, if projects are in the system that don't have active committers trying to fix them/deal with

Re: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace

2004-11-01 Thread Leo Simons
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: If a project: 1) is not an ASF project 2) no ASF project depend on it 3) has been broken for a while and shows no sign of activity (gump-wise) +1 to that one. In the case of has been broken for a LONG time with no sign of activity gump-wise I would even support the

RE: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace

2004-11-01 Thread Eric Pugh
- From: Leo Simons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 5:06 PM To: Gump code and data Subject: Re: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: If a project: 1) is not an ASF project 2) no ASF project depend on it 3) has

Re: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace

2004-11-01 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Eric Pugh wrote: Sometimes I just want to build against version XX of a dependency. But this is mostly me being lazy. Well, I think gump should allow you to do that: build against the latest dependency *and* build against the dependency you want. Those are two different things, true, but

Re: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace

2004-11-01 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Monday 01 November 2004 23:41, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: So, let me rephrase my proposal: If a project: 1) is not an ASF project 2) no ASF project depend on it 3) has been broken for a while and shows no sign of activity (gump-wise) we remove it from the gump.xml profile that

Re: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace

2004-10-31 Thread Jeremias Maerki
I've got no problem with removing Barcode4J from Gump. It is a nice-to-have but I can live without it. Go ahead. On 30.10.2004 19:55:21 Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: there are a few projects that gump builds that are not ASF projects and are not used by any ASF project. I think the ASF already has

Re: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace

2004-10-31 Thread Adam R. B. Jack
there are a few projects that gump builds that are not ASF projects and are not used by any ASF project. I think the ASF already has enough things to build for ourselves and gump is not a public service. I hear you, but since Gump was a social experiment not an ASF build tool, some of this

Re: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace

2004-10-31 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Adam R. B. Jack wrote: there are a few projects that gump builds that are not ASF projects and are not used by any ASF project. I think the ASF already has enough things to build for ourselves and gump is not a public service. I hear you, but since Gump was a social experiment not an ASF build

Re: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace

2004-10-31 Thread Conor MacNeill
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: WTDY? The downside of this idea is that ASF projects will lose warnings about incompatible changes they make that break non-ASF projects. IOW, info about downstream breakages can be interesting even if it is not a breakage in an ASF project. I know the I always

Re: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace

2004-10-31 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Conor MacNeill wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: WTDY? The downside of this idea is that ASF projects will lose warnings about incompatible changes they make that break non-ASF projects. I said: remove non-ASF project that ASF projects don't depend upon. -- Stefano. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: [proposal] removing non-ASF leaves from the workspace

2004-10-30 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Sunday 31 October 2004 01:55, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: there are a few projects that gump builds that are not ASF projects and are not used by any ASF project. I think the ASF already has enough things to build for ourselves and gump is not a public service. I personally think that it is