Re: New Jakarta proposal: Pluto

2003-01-22 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
I think the incubator should take in to account that committers/memebers w/in the Jakarta Community have serious reservations about the community issues here. While I really want to see this happen here, Steven is right to question some serious community issues. BTW here are mine: Please

Re: New Jakarta proposal: Pluto

2003-01-22 Thread Steven Noels
Conor MacNeill wrote: Steven, I think these are exactly the sort of questions incubator is designed to answer. Tapestry was about seeing how an existing project can come into Apache. Perhaps Pluto is an opportunity to understand how a new project can be created and encouraged at Apache. They

Re: New Jakarta proposal: Pluto

2003-01-22 Thread Sam Ruby
Andrew C. Oliver wrote: Please note that my support is based on the following assumptions: http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?TalkPlutoProposal Andy, This is an *excellent* list to work from. Thanks! - Sam Ruby -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: New Jakarta proposal: Pluto

2003-01-22 Thread Costin Manolache
Stefan Hepper wrote: - Pluto is only the reference implementation for the Portlet API defined in the JSR 168 This is comparable with the tomcat being the servlet container and implementing the servlet API. Pluto itself is only a infrastructure component. All portal related functionality

Forum Software.

2003-01-22 Thread Robert Simmons
Well, once again I would like to bring up the concept of forum software for Jakarta. The reason I am bringing it up again is that mailing lists are intrusive and spammy. Daily I get flooded with a ton of email that I have absolutely no interest in reading. However if I unsubscribe to the lists

Re: Forum Software.

2003-01-22 Thread James Strachan
Try gmane http://www.gmane.org/ then you can use your favourite news reader software to browse the already existing mail lists - it supports replies too. James --- http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/ - Original Message - From: Robert Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jakarta General

Re: Forum Software.

2003-01-22 Thread Henri Yandell
So the suggestion is: All Users lists become forums. Developer lists stay. Only problem I see there is that Developers won't check the forums as much as they should, unless the Users forum has a mail list interface. Hen On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Robert Simmons wrote: Well, once again I would

Re: Forum Software.

2003-01-22 Thread Robert Simmons
Most forums have subscribe services. However what the devs really need to check is bug tracking more than forums. Forums are a place to discuss things whereas bug tracking is the place to fix things. PhpBB2 has all of those features and is free. It takes about 15 min to configure. You could even,

RE: Forum Software.

2003-01-22 Thread James Mitchell
-Original Message- From: Henri Yandell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 11:41 AM To: Jakarta General List Subject: Re: Forum Software. So the suggestion is: All Users lists become forums. Developer lists stay. I will fight to my dying breath

weblogs on apache.org

2003-01-22 Thread Henri Gomez
What about my proposal to have a weblogs on apache.org ? the MT from moveabletype.org (www.movabletype.org) is excellent. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Forum Software.

2003-01-22 Thread Robert Simmons
Then how do you answer the following issues: 1) The vast majority of Jakarta users will not want to be inundated with email on a daily basis. They either wont bother to read it or will unsubscribe. This will ultimately cost us hundreds of potential developers that might have wanted to work on a

RE: Forum Software.

2003-01-22 Thread Tom Copeland
-1 Well, once again I would like to bring up the concept of forum software for Jakarta. The reason I am bringing it up again is that mailing lists are intrusive and spammy. Are they? I can't agree... I find them non-intrusive (my mail client quiet files them in a folder) and non-spammy

RE: Forum Software.

2003-01-22 Thread Patrick Ferdig
I'm just a lurker, but: -1 -Original Message- From: Robert Simmons To: Jakarta General Sent: 1/22/2003 8:07 AM Subject: Forum Software. Well, once again I would like to bring up the concept of forum software for Jakarta. The reason I am bringing it up again is that mailing lists are

RE: Forum Software.

2003-01-22 Thread Tom Copeland
1) The vast majority of Jakarta users will not want to be inundated with email on a daily basis. They either wont bother to read it or will unsubscribe. This will ultimately cost us hundreds of potential developers that might have wanted to work on a part of a project but didn't know

RE: Forum Software.

2003-01-22 Thread Costin Manolache
James Mitchell wrote: So the suggestion is: All Users lists become forums. Developer lists stay. I will fight to my dying breath to make sure this DOESN'T happen (with what little persuation I can muster). I have come to rely deeply on these lists. +1 I spend my offline hours

RE: Forum Software.

2003-01-22 Thread Danny Angus
So the suggestion is: All Users lists become forums. Developer lists stay. Only problem I see there is that Developers won't check the forums as much as they should, unless the Users forum has a mail list interface. I think this is a terrible idea, unless... we had a mail-news gateway

Re: Forum Software.

2003-01-22 Thread James Strachan
From: Danny Angus [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think this is a terrible idea, unless... we had a mail-news gateway which would expose the lists as news groups. They already are. Point your browser/newsreader at news://news.gmane.org/ or in particular here and follow this thread in your news reader...

Re: Forum Software.

2003-01-22 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Robert Simmons wrote: Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:52:12 +0100 From: Robert Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Jakarta General List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jakarta General List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Forum Software. Then how do you answer the following issues:

Re: New Jakarta proposal: Pluto

2003-01-22 Thread Santiago Gala
Steven Noels wrote: Conor MacNeill wrote: Steven, I think these are exactly the sort of questions incubator is designed to answer. Tapestry was about seeing how an existing project can come into Apache. Perhaps Pluto is an opportunity to understand how a new project can be created and

Re: New Jakarta proposal: Pluto

2003-01-22 Thread Serge Huber
At 08:20 PM 1/22/2003 +0100, you wrote: I will try to join both Pluto and Charon, also, time and health permitting. Even if I am not very active lately, I'm still tracking Cocoon and Jetspeed as much as I can. I'm better at bug fixing, critisizing and generic hacking than a true programmer,

Re: Forum Software.

2003-01-22 Thread Stephane Mor
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:13:20AM -0800, Costin Manolache wrote: James Mitchell wrote: So the suggestion is: All Users lists become forums. Developer lists stay. I will fight to my dying breath to make sure this DOESN'T happen (with what little persuation I can muster). I

Re: Forum Software.

2003-01-22 Thread Stphane Mor
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:13:20AM -0800, Costin Manolache wrote: James Mitchell wrote: So the suggestion is: All Users lists become forums. Developer lists stay. I will fight to my dying breath to make sure this DOESN'T happen (with what little persuation I can muster). I

Re: Forum Software.

2003-01-22 Thread Santiago Gala
Robert Simmons wrote: Well, once again I would like to bring up the concept of forum software for Jakarta. The reason I am bringing it up again is that mailing lists are intrusive and spammy. Daily I get flooded with a ton of email that I have absolutely no interest in reading. However if I

Re: Forum Software.

2003-01-22 Thread Randall J. Parr
Danny Angus wrote: So the suggestion is: All Users lists become forums. Developer lists stay. Only problem I see there is that Developers won't check the forums as much as they should, unless the Users forum has a mail list interface. I think this is a terrible idea, unless... we had a

Re: Forum Software.

2003-01-22 Thread Stephen Haberman
Hi Robert, First off, I can sympathize with your idea. Users being able to casually drop in on a list with a minimum amount of hassle, e.g. not subscribing for firing up a news reader, a web-based forum makes sense. However, as you can see, I don't think Apache will ever move away from email

Re: New Jakarta proposal: Pluto

2003-01-22 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 03:51 PM, Costin Manolache wrote: snip I would preffer that all portlet-related technology would be in the same project and community, with JSP/struts/cocoon specific areas. Maybe an commons-like project. +1 (providing that andrew's reservations about pluto

Re: Forum Software.

2003-01-22 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 2003/1/22 12:28 PM, Santiago Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Install spamassassin and server-side filtering (with procmail, for instance). ;-) (It saves me between 5 and 10 spam messages a day, quite an effort just to download and delete). You should be so lucky to only get 5-10 a day. I

Re: Forum Software.

2003-01-22 Thread Pier Fumagalli
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:08:56PM -0800, Randall J. Parr wrote: It seems much of the reason people want to have forums is for the search abilities. There are mail archives available but I must I agree many are so limited in their search abilities and/or interface that they do not help

Re: Forum Software.

2003-01-22 Thread dion
Ick, I don't want a forum unless it also is a mailing list -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Blog: http://www.freeroller.net/page/dion/Weblog Work: http://www.multitask.com.au Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 23/01/2003 03:41:27 AM: So the suggestion is: All

Re: Forum Software.

2003-01-22 Thread V. Cekvenich
And I volunteer to write a Struts/Tomcat based one ( I have most of functionality in basicPortal.com that uses a lot of jakarta project). I think use Jakarta dogmeet. .V Jeff Schnitzer wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:15:22PM +, Pier Fumagalli wrote: We have a license and an installation

Re: New Jakarta proposal: Pluto

2003-01-22 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Sam Ruby wrote: robert burrell donkin wrote: +1 (providing that andrew's reservations about pluto are resolved) why not portlet.apache.org (with jetspeed and pluto as subprojects)? I predict that something along those lines will eventually occur. The question is whether to gate this

wow

2003-01-22 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
The logo on this page looksWonderful! http://jakarta.apache.org/watchdog/index.html (mozilla 1.2.1 and IE 6.x) -Andy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: weblogs on apache.org

2003-01-22 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
The most appropriate place to discuss this is on infrastructure@... This is a discussion for a piece of infrastructure you'd like to add. I would include an offer to do all of the administration and support. -Andy Henri Gomez wrote: What about my proposal to have a weblogs on apache.org ? the

RE: Forum Software.

2003-01-22 Thread Martin Cooper
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Costin Manolache wrote: James Mitchell wrote: So the suggestion is: All Users lists become forums. Developer lists stay. I will fight to my dying breath to make sure this DOESN'T happen (with what little persuation I can muster). I have come to rely