Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-06-03 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
This is amazing. I agree with Craig on something almost completely. Craig McClanahan wrote: On 5/30/07, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/30/07, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/26/07, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ack in terms of driving a community away because

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-06-03 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
This is amazing. I agree with Craig on something almost completely. Craig McClanahan wrote: On 5/30/07, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/30/07, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/26/07, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ack in terms of driving a community away because

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-30 Thread Ted Husted
On 5/26/07, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ack in terms of driving a community away because it is unable to meet our arbitrary criteria. That sort of thinking just seems so Borg to me. It's another way of saying that a software product only has value if its hosted by the ASF. If a

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-27 Thread Daniel F. Savarese
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Henr i Yandell writes: Chiefly, we need to decide if we're sending the Commons proposal. The We decided already to submit the Commons proposal by virtue of the vote result. I suggest we uphold the current decision and submit the proposal in order to make some

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-26 Thread Ted Husted
On 5/25/07, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4) Goto code.google. Ack :( I wouldn't discount GoogleCode (or Java.net or SourceForge or CodeHaus). Right now, there's a GoogleCode site that I use everyday, and it's been utterly reliable. There's features I miss, but the UI is so

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-26 Thread Henri Yandell
On 5/26/07, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/25/07, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4) Goto code.google. Ack :( I wouldn't discount GoogleCode (or Java.net or SourceForge or CodeHaus). Right now, there's a GoogleCode site that I use everyday, and it's been utterly reliable.

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-25 Thread Ted Husted
On 5/23/07, Stephen Colebourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact, I object to the fact the it seems to be so difficult to escape Jakarta. :) So far, it's been *much* less difficult than creating the Jakarta Commons in the first place! Back in the day, we actually had a separate mailing list

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-25 Thread Henri Yandell
On 5/25/07, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/23/07, Stephen Colebourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact, I object to the fact the it seems to be so difficult to escape Jakarta. :) So far, it's been *much* less difficult than creating the Jakarta Commons in the first place! Back in the

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-24 Thread Martin van den Bemt
To those trying to preserve Jakarta I say 'let go of Commons'. Don't abuse Commons to try and save Jakarta. If the Jakarta name is worth saving, people and community will form to save it. If not, then it will die. Thats normal and natural. Maybe not a reference to me, but in case it

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-23 Thread Stephen Colebourne
- Original Message From: Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 5/22/07, Stephen Colebourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In summary: a) I believe the status quo is not viable b) I believe that merging commons into Jakarta merges two mismatched groups My suggestion was to merge the Jakarta

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-23 Thread Niall Pemberton
On 5/23/07, Stephen Colebourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message From: Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 5/22/07, Stephen Colebourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In summary: a) I believe the status quo is not viable b) I believe that merging commons into Jakarta merges two

RE: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-22 Thread Jörg Schaible
Martin van den Bemt wrote on Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:16 AM: 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) :

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-22 Thread Danny Angus
On 5/22/07, 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.. I thought that that idea was unpopular with some commons commiters on this PMC? d.

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-22 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 5/22/07, Danny Angus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/22/07, 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.. I thought that that idea was unpopular with some commons

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-22 Thread Ted Husted
On 5/22/07, Craig McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: Yes, of course, there are passionate believers in the development of particular libraries. Are there enough to make a viable community for *any* of the libraries on their own? Or enough that care about the Commons ecosystem as a whole

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-22 Thread Stephen Colebourne
- Original Message From: Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 5/22/07, Craig McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: Yes, of course, there are passionate believers in the development of particular libraries. Are there enough to make a viable community for *any* of the libraries on

RE: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-22 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Stephen, Stephen Colebourne wrote on Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:43 PM: [snip] In summary: a) I believe the status quo is not viable b) I believe that merging commons into Jakarta merges two mismatched groups c) I believe that commons is big enough and strong enough to be a TLP So, I

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-22 Thread Ted Husted
On 5/22/07, Stephen Colebourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In summary: a) I believe the status quo is not viable b) I believe that merging commons into Jakarta merges two mismatched groups My suggestion was to merge the Jakarta subprojects into the Commons, not the other way around. * The

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

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: [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
: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta 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

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: [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

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-20 Thread J Aaron Farr
Danny Angus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, I've followed the commons TLP vote thread with some interest because it seems to impact directly on the end-game for Jakarta This thread has been more quiet than I expected. A couple of quick thoughts: Henri and Henning seem to have the same

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-16 Thread Ted Husted
On 5/15/07, Danny Angus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 0/ Do we agree that the end-game is dissolution of the Jakarta PMC and closure of the project? Pro - Draws a line under the reorg effort which has gone on for 3 or 4 *years*. Con - Removes the remaining tangible historic links between former

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-16 Thread Torsten Curdt
so this thread died again without a conclusion or resulution. My take with as few words as possible: * push for active project to go TLP * jakarta.apache.org - the portal to all java projects at apache. Just a shell - but let's keep the brand. Not necessarily a PMC required. (Although a

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-15 Thread Petar Tahchiev
On 5/15/07, Danny Angus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Ok, I've followed the commons TLP vote thread with some interest because it seems to impact directly on the end-game for Jakarta. I believe that we have to make some pretty fundamental decisions about that future before we can fully resolve

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-15 Thread Henning Schmiedehausen
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 10:22 +0100, Danny Angus wrote: 0/ - Dismember the current Jakarta PMC - +1 1/ - Yes, preserve the brand - +1000 2/ - No. The commons PMC will run the commons project. A possible Jakarta PMC will not have the attention that might be needed. - -1 3/ - -1 on the PRC. They

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-15 Thread Henning Schmiedehausen
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 21:56 +0200, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 10:22 +0100, Danny Angus wrote: 0/ - Dismember the current Jakarta PMC - +1 1/ - Yes, preserve the brand - +1000 2/ - No. The commons PMC will run the commons project. A possible Jakarta PMC will not

Re: [PROPOSAL] The future of Jakarta

2007-05-15 Thread Henri Yandell
On 5/15/07, Danny Angus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Ok, I've followed the commons TLP vote thread with some interest because it seems to impact directly on the end-game for Jakarta. I believe that we have to make some pretty fundamental decisions about that future before we can fully resolve