[Fwd: Re: [VOTE] RE: New Mailet API - Was Re: what competition is doing]

2005-05-08 Thread acoliver
--- Begin Message --- I'm non binding -1 on this as a starting point. I prefer a unit test-first/code-oriented approach to the specification design. I've been unimpressed by past efforts to start this on the wiki. Not that there shouldn't be discussion but it should be discussion about commi

Re: what competition is doing

2005-04-30 Thread acoliver
Cool, appreciated. If we did this, I'd expect we'd keep this in the same project in ASF, though a rename from James to Email might make sense. That's unchartered territories though, and I'd rather not deal with it too much if we can avoid it. Sure. Committership/voting should be different t

Re: what competition is doing

2005-04-29 Thread acoliver
Okay. I don't think its very important but could be to others. Since JAMES is the server and it will be perceptually JAMES's mailets and not just Apache Mailets it might kind of inhibit adoption. I don't really care enough to be personally inhibited, just pointing out that it is an inhibitio

Re: what competition is doing

2005-04-29 Thread acoliver
I wouldn't mind starting to formulate a plan. Here are some suggestions. I'm somewhat inspired by the JCP, but probably everyone here (including myself) has problems with it. I think the overall idea of how to create a compatible API with compatibility standards can be done in an open/open-s

Re: what competition is doing

2005-04-29 Thread acoliver
I don't really see us as that competitive. I rather thing we'll carve out two different nitches in the market. I've actually started moving most of the plan into JIRA. We're actually going to try and cut a 1.0 release sooner rather than later and cut our planned feature set (really just move

Re: JBossMail - JAMES seems to get concurrence :)

2005-03-01 Thread acoliver
Don't want to confiscate the list but just correct a falacy that I've propegated through negligence. Yeah thats a lie, I update the schedule as things progress so its always "best information RIGHT NOW" but I haven't had a moment to update it. I will shortly.. . its looking like May for an initia