ad dormant code: what about matured code? (Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
J Aaron Farr wrote: ... cut ... As for dormant code, leave it where it is. If we still have a few committers working on it and making releases occasionally, then we'd still need a functional PMC. Otherwise, if we get enough noise about a subproject, it can be revived (perhaps with help from

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Danny Angus
On 5/21/07, J Aaron Farr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thread has been more quiet than I expected. I thought so too. There are two points which I'd like to make from the things that have been said so far, 1/ From Ted H. Whenever we foster healthy communities that create great software, we

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Danny Angus
On 5/21/07, J Aaron Farr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thread has been more quiet than I expected. Actually, thinking about it, perhaps that's because we all think we know where this is inevitably going and we're just waiting for it all to settle out. d.

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Martin van den Bemt
My silence is because I think I made my preferred option quite clear way too many times. Mvgr, Martin Danny Angus wrote: On 5/21/07, J Aaron Farr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thread has been more quiet than I expected. Actually, thinking about it, perhaps that's because we all think we

RE: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Danny, Danny Angus wrote on Monday, May 21, 2007 10:47 AM: On 5/21/07, Jörg Schaible [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any attempt in any kind of direction has been vetoed down and for me it is pointless to bring the same arguments again in a new thread. Jorg, Searching through my mail I

Voting on releasing RC artificats as Final

2007-05-21 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All For the 3.0 release of POI, we followed the advice on voting on artificats, the not the state of the tree. So, we used our ant script to produce RC artificats, signed them, and placed them on people.apache.org for review. After the vote, we renamed the files from -RC4- to -FINAL-,

Re: Voting on releasing RC artificats as Final

2007-05-21 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
For commons transaction I did exactly that. Create/sign the RC as if it was the final release, but only put it on temporary storage without notifying anyone external. IMHO a RC is not meant to check for remaining bugs, but rather to see if the distro looks ok, installs, etc. That means the RC

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Danny Angus
On 5/21/07, Jörg Schaible [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1/ Open-up Jakarta to all committers, was vetoed 2/ Merge commons into Jakarta, was vetoed 3/ Move commons into own TLP, was vetoed So what's left in your opinion? Work with the people who cast the deadlocking vetoes to resolve their issues

Re: Voting on releasing RC artificats as Final

2007-05-21 Thread Mark Thomas
Nick Burch wrote: What do other people do about this for their releases, when voting on artificats? Do you do each build as if it was -FINAL (so that gets embeded into all the directory names etc), then rename the artificats for voting, or something else? For Tomcat, every release candidate

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Sam Ruby
On 5/21/07, Jörg Schaible [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But to recap, we had 1/ Open-up Jakarta to all committers, was vetoed 2/ Merge commons into Jakarta, was vetoed 3/ Move commons into own TLP, was vetoed Each of those proposals could be voted down, but are not subject to veto. In other

Re: ad dormant code: what about matured code? (Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Ted Husted
On 5/21/07, Rony G. Flatscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There may be many reasons why a project turned dormant: no interest (dead technology), committers having gone astray, etc. One reason that may be special is a project which got developed, is used, but there is no reason to develop it

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Danny Angus
On 5/21/07, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone wants to turn Jakarta into a Java portal, then turn Jakarta into a Java portal. Some of the codebases may still be under the Jakarta PMC umbrella, but would have little effect on using the Jakarta site as a portal to the ASF's Java

RE: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Guy_Brian
Here's a stupid but important question - what impact will all this have on the future development of Tomcat? Thanks, Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sam Ruby Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 8:12 AM To: Jakarta General List Subject: Re:

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Tim Funk
None - Tomcat is its own TLP -Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a stupid but important question - what impact will all this have on the future development of Tomcat? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Ted Husted
On 5/21/07, Danny Angus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok Ownership is perhaps the wrong word, if Jakarta is being disbanded who provides the oversight? The same people who provide oversight for any ASF project: The people doing the work. If anyone wants Jakarta to be the ASF portal to all of our

Re: Voting on releasing RC artificats as Final

2007-05-21 Thread Henri Yandell
On 5/21/07, Nick Burch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All For the 3.0 release of POI, we followed the advice on voting on artificats, the not the state of the tree. So, we used our ant script to produce RC artificats, signed them, and placed them on people.apache.org for review. After the vote,

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Martin van den Bemt
Ted Husted wrote: Worse case, the Commons group could always go with Apache Jakarta Commons. No one has objected to the re-use of the word Jakarta, and more than one person has affirmed that it could be used. That *you* don't see a problem in using the Jakarta name, doesn't mean no one

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Danny Angus
On 5/21/07, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/21/07, Danny Angus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok Ownership is perhaps the wrong word, if Jakarta is being disbanded who provides the oversight? The same people who provide oversight for any ASF project: The people doing the work. If anyone

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Ted Husted
On 5/21/07, Martin van den Bemt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That *you* don't see a problem in using the Jakarta name, doesn't mean no one has expressed objections (you even responded to those objections) Yes, I looked back over the thread, and I stand corrected. You did say that the use of the

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Martin van den Bemt
Danny Angus wrote: On 5/21/07, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/21/07, Danny Angus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok Ownership is perhaps the wrong word, if Jakarta is being disbanded who provides the oversight? The same people who provide oversight for any ASF project: The people

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Ted Husted
On 5/21/07, Martin van den Bemt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not just you :) It's just too early to do that at this stage, since if it is just some commits as Teds says, it will be a dead horse. I don't need something formal or something, but at least get some attention from the java

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Ted Husted
On 5/21/07, Martin van den Bemt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then take it to the next stage. Update the Jakarta home page to include links to our other Java products that were never part of Jakarta, like iBATIS, and invite all ASF Java products to use our news feed. Open the door, and see if

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Martin van den Bemt
Yep still feel that way. Projects that want to use the Jakarta name, should just stay here till they are the only one left and after that re-establish the Jakarta Project. Mvgr, Martin Ted Husted wrote: On 5/21/07, Martin van den Bemt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That *you* don't see a problem in

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Martin van den Bemt
Ted Husted wrote: On 5/21/07, Martin van den Bemt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not just you :) It's just too early to do that at this stage, since if it is just some commits as Teds says, it will be a dead horse. I don't need something formal or something, but at least get some

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Ted Husted
What if the proposal were to create the TLP for the purpose of reporting directly to the board, but nothing else changed? Would the project name Apache Jakarta Commons still be a problem for you if the physical infrastructure remained here, under the Jakarta hostname? -Ted. On 5/21/07, Martin

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Henri Yandell
On 5/21/07, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/21/07, Martin van den Bemt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then take it to the next stage. Update the Jakarta home page to include links to our other Java products that were never part of Jakarta, like iBATIS, and invite all ASF Java products

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Martin van den Bemt
One link to a separate page isn't a problem, since I prefer that no major changes happen to the main site at this stage. Currently I am pretty much dedicated in keeping Jakarta as a brand. And when that time comes to worry about that, I'll work with the people who still have the itch and the

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Martin van den Bemt
That's quite problematic : Jakarta is responsible for jakarta.apache.org, not commons, sharing that responsibility will just complicate things a lot. It's pretty simple to solve this though (even though repeating myself here) : Let (a flattened) commons become Jakarta.. Mvgr, Martin Ted

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Ted Husted
On 5/21/07, Martin van den Bemt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One link to a separate page isn't a problem, since I prefer that no major changes happen to the main site at this stage. Currently I am pretty much dedicated in keeping Jakarta as a brand. And when that time comes to worry about that,

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Ted Husted
On 5/21/07, Martin van den Bemt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's pretty simple to solve this though (even though repeating myself here) : Let (a flattened) commons become Jakarta.. Then why the concern about the use of Apache Jakarta Commons as a project name? When the time comes, we could just

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Ted Husted
On 5/21/07, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/21/07, Martin van den Bemt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's pretty simple to solve this though (even though repeating myself here) : Let (a flattened) commons become Jakarta.. Actually, it might be helpful if you repeated yourself in full,

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Martin van den Bemt
Flattened means : jakarta.apache.org/commons becomes jakarta.apache.org :) Mvgr, Martin Ted Husted wrote: On 5/21/07, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/21/07, Martin van den Bemt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's pretty simple to solve this though (even though repeating myself here) :

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-21 Thread Martin van den Bemt
Ted Husted wrote: On 5/21/07, Martin van den Bemt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's pretty simple to solve this though (even though repeating myself here) : Let (a flattened) commons become Jakarta.. Then why the concern about the use of Apache Jakarta Commons as a project name? When the