RE: Nightly builds

2001-02-16 Thread Jeff Martin
Little history, about 6 months ago I added build support to Alexandria. It seemed to make sense that since I wanted to test build and Alexandria already had a means getting hold of the source from cvs without to much hassle it seemed good to just added in the ability to kick off a

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) *