Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-27 Thread Jürgen Hoffmann
Hi Bernd, this is *the best* Mail I read on this thread !!! Kind regards Juergen Bernd Fondermann schrieb: > Hi guys, > > so much words again for so few information, and not always fun to read. > > anyway, a few very short takes from me to let you know what my > preferences are: > > Working

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-26 Thread Stefano Bagnara
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Stefano and I certainly had a misunderstanding over his intent for "2.4" (the next minor release), due to the subject heading. If were were in physical proximity, I'd shake his hand. We've already apologized for the misunderstanding, and had a very long chat (each of us m

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-26 Thread Stefano Bagnara
Noel J. Bergman wrote: All I want is some discipline about what goes into a release, and then I'll be a happy camper again. Stop telling me about releasing trunk, and start talking about how we'll put together a safe, stable, reliable distribution with all of the new features we want, and my doc

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-26 Thread Danny Angus
Norman, (I seem to have missed alot of mail, and got it all in one batch!) I've replied about vhosting in a new thread, I think the most problems of people are that they fear to "break" james.. But why we should fear with new junit tests :-P This is true, but it is also true that some propos

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-26 Thread Norman Maurer
Noel J. Bergman schrieb: > Steve Brewin wrote: > > >> Norman wrote: >> > > >>> Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini wrote: >>> > > > On 10/24/06, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I've added this point because Noel and Vincenzo brought >> th

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update) Switched to PMC

2006-10-25 Thread Bernd Fondermann
Thanks for sending this, Steve, really! I very heartfully agree with you. This is a mail for printing out and double-checking everytime before hitting the "send" button. Thanks again! Bernd On 10/25/06, Steve Brewin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I stumbled across this unsent message in my

RE: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-25 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Stefano wrote: > Noel wrote: >> Stefano Bagnara wrote: >>> I don't agree with your version numbers, but if you can read my message >>> you will find that I never talked about 2.4 or 3.0 >> See the subject header. > Then now that I explained you that it was not related to 2.4 you can > read it again

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-25 Thread Bernd Fondermann
Hi guys, so much words again for so few information, and not always fun to read. anyway, a few very short takes from me to let you know what my preferences are: Working on trunk towards 3.0: +1 Supporting old configuration in future versions: +1 Working on 2.4 by backporting stuff: +0 Using mi

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-25 Thread Stefano Bagnara
Noel J. Bergman wrote: I don't know what's the problem with you. And I don't know the meaning of "decision by message volume". See Steve Brewin's e-mail. I don't agree with your version numbers, but if you can read my message you will find that I never talked about 2.4 or 3.0 See the subjec

RE: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-25 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> I don't know what's the problem with you. > And I don't know the meaning of "decision by message volume". See Steve Brewin's e-mail. > I don't agree with your version numbers, but if you can read my message > you will find that I never talked about 2.4 or 3.0 See the subject header.

RE: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update) Switched to PMC

2006-10-25 Thread Steve Brewin
Steve Brewin wrote: > Hi, > > I stumbled across this unsent message in my drafts. Feck! Sorry, too late now. -- Steve - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update) Switched to PMC

2006-10-25 Thread Steve Brewin
Hi, I stumbled across this unsent message in my drafts. I had decided not to send it, but in the light of current server-dev discussions I've changed my mind (obviously). The original context was "Version numbers (Was: LONG JAMES v2.4 Road Map)". I'm sending this to the PMC as I don't think it goo

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-25 Thread Stefano Bagnara
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Steve Brewin wrote: Norman wrote: Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini wrote: On 10/24/06, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've added this point because Noel and Vincenzo brought this as animportant point in the 2.4 roadmap discussion. I personally don't care of

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-25 Thread Stefano Bagnara
Noel J. Bergman wrote: My proposal is: - everything we have in trunk now: now I can't see anything critical enough to be removed. Well, this was already there ;-) Release planning by fiat? I think that we would have to be INSANE to release trunk as JAMES v2.4! 1) This was not a relase p

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-25 Thread Stefano Bagnara
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Slightly more than a month ago I wrote a roadmap, here is an update for people that has not time for a day to day oversight. And I disagreed with you then, and so did others, and I am really getting tired of decision by message volume. I don't believe that I am alone in

RE: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-25 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> > My proposal is: > > - everything we have in trunk now: now I can't see anything critical > > enough to be removed. > Well, this was already there ;-) Release planning by fiat? I think that we would have to be INSANE to release trunk as JAMES v2.4! More to come. And, no, I am not just rea

RE: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-25 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Steve Brewin wrote: > Norman wrote: >> Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini wrote: > >>> On 10/24/06, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've added this point because Noel and Vincenzo brought > this as animportant point in the 2.4 roadmap discussion. > I personally don't care of

RE: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-25 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> Slightly more than a month ago I wrote a roadmap, here is an update for > people that has not time for a day to day oversight. And I disagreed with you then, and so did others, and I am really getting tired of decision by message volume. I don't believe that I am alone in that sentiment. Trunk

RE: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-24 Thread Steve Brewin
Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini wrote: > Norman Maurer wrote: > > Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini schrieb: > > > >> Danny Angus wrote: > >> > >>> On 10/24/06, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>> > I've added this point because Noel and Vincenzo brought > this as an > important poi

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-24 Thread Norman Maurer
Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini schrieb: Norman Maurer wrote: Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini schrieb: Danny Angus wrote: On 10/24/06, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've added this point because Noel and Vincenzo brought this as an important point in the 2.4 roadmap discussion.

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-24 Thread Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini
Norman Maurer wrote: Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini schrieb: Danny Angus wrote: On 10/24/06, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've added this point because Noel and Vincenzo brought this as an important point in the 2.4 roadmap discussion. I personally don't care of config

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-24 Thread Norman Maurer
Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini schrieb: > Danny Angus wrote: >> On 10/24/06, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I've added this point because Noel and Vincenzo brought this as an >>> important point in the 2.4 roadmap discussion. >>> I personally don't care of config.xml compatibility: I

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-24 Thread Norman Maurer
Hi Danny, something to say .. Danny Angus schrieb: > Hi Stefano, > > Thanks for your detailed reply, I hope my comments below will reassure > you that I'm not proposing anything radical, just a slightly more > visible planning process, and some small refactorings. > I also hope that we're beginni

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-24 Thread Stefano Bagnara
Danny Angus wrote: Right, and thats the right thing to do. If everyone adds their own thing to a list (the status file?) we can see what everyone is capable of achieving, and outline the contents of planned releases without having to comit to dates. Releases need to be roughly planned for major a

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-24 Thread Stefano Bagnara
Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini wrote: Danny Angus wrote: On 10/24/06, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've added this point because Noel and Vincenzo brought this as an important point in the 2.4 roadmap discussion. I personally don't care of config.xml compatibility: I was just reportin

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-24 Thread Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini
Danny Angus wrote: On 10/24/06, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've added this point because Noel and Vincenzo brought this as an important point in the 2.4 roadmap discussion. I personally don't care of config.xml compatibility: I was just reporting what I understood was important

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-24 Thread Stefano Bagnara
Danny Angus wrote: Hi Stefano, Thanks for your detailed reply, I hope my comments below will reassure you that I'm not proposing anything radical, just a slightly more visible planning process, and some small refactorings. I also hope that we're beginning to reach a common understanding of what

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-24 Thread Danny Angus
Hi Stefano, Thanks for your detailed reply, I hope my comments below will reassure you that I'm not proposing anything radical, just a slightly more visible planning process, and some small refactorings. I also hope that we're beginning to reach a common understanding of what James project is lac

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-23 Thread Stefano Bagnara
Danny Angus wrote: On 10/21/06, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can we consider timetabling some other changes now that we've made > such good progress? Well, I think important things are: 1) don't delay the next release cycle once we added the features we planned (and currenlty th

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-23 Thread Danny Angus
On 10/21/06, Norman Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In POP3 people would have to use "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as login and no more > "user". Thats exactly what i whould like to see as next steps.. The path of the mailboxes should also switch then to : /var/mail/domain/user The enabling/disabling

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-23 Thread Danny Angus
On 10/21/06, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can we consider timetabling some other changes now that we've made > such good progress? Well, I think important things are: 1) don't delay the next release cycle once we added the features we planned (and currenlty the only missing big p

RE: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-23 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Stefano Bagnara wrote: > I think that the solution I found out-there to provide easy > out-of-the-box v hosting support is to put "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" into the > UsersRepository and change "LocalDelivery" (ToMultiRepository) to use > the full recipient instead of the recipient.getName() when retrie

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-21 Thread Norman Maurer
Stefano Bagnara schrieb: Danny Angus wrote: On 10/20/06, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Slightly more than a month ago I wrote a roadmap, here is an update for people that has not time for a day to day oversight. Thanks Stefano ;-) Can we consider timetabling some other changes n

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-21 Thread Stefano Bagnara
Danny Angus wrote: On 10/20/06, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Slightly more than a month ago I wrote a roadmap, here is an update for people that has not time for a day to day oversight. Thanks Stefano ;-) Can we consider timetabling some other changes now that we've made such go

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-20 Thread Danny Angus
On 10/20/06, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Slightly more than a month ago I wrote a roadmap, here is an update for people that has not time for a day to day oversight. Thanks Stefano ;-) Can we consider timetabling some other changes now that we've made such good progress? 1/ One

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map (Status Update)

2006-10-20 Thread Stefano Bagnara
Slightly more than a month ago I wrote a roadmap, here is an update for people that has not time for a day to day oversight. Stefano Bagnara wrote: Norman Maurer wrote: I agree with Stefano.. And i think we can push a 2.4 release in 6 Month ( At least i hope so). So i think the next step mu

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map

2006-09-15 Thread Bernd Fondermann
On 9/15/06, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bernd Fondermann wrote: >> For me its: >> 2.3.x = bugfixes >> 2.4 = 2.3.x + new features ( compatible) >> 3.0 = incompatible changes > > addition: 3.0 = incompatible changes, big new features > > +1, thats absolutely my take, and my understan

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map

2006-09-15 Thread Norman Maurer
Bernd Fondermann schrieb: On 9/14/06, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I will read and reply to the various comments later, but I want to put some figures into the picture. $ du -hs branches/v2.3/src/java trunk/src/java 13M branches/v2.3/src/java 15M trunk/src/java $ svn

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map

2006-09-15 Thread Norman Maurer
Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini schrieb: Stefano Bagnara wrote: Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini wrote: Yes, but we already used a different scheme for 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3.. so why change it for 2.4? Because IMHO it was wrong :-) . Ok, What I'm trying to say that consistency helps understanding: if yo

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map

2006-09-15 Thread Stefano Bagnara
Bernd Fondermann wrote: For me its: 2.3.x = bugfixes 2.4 = 2.3.x + new features ( compatible) 3.0 = incompatible changes addition: 3.0 = incompatible changes, big new features +1, thats absolutely my take, and my understanding about what is common sense in the industry And I don't think its on

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map

2006-09-15 Thread Bernd Fondermann
On 9/15/06, Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stefano Bagnara wrote: > Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini wrote: > > > It's more than one year that I write to this list, you should have > learned that my discussion are a little rude. Don't take it so hard. Ok :-) . But we italians (es

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map

2006-09-15 Thread Bernd Fondermann
On 9/14/06, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I will read and reply to the various comments later, but I want to put some figures into the picture. $ du -hs branches/v2.3/src/java trunk/src/java 13M branches/v2.3/src/java 15M trunk/src/java $ svn diff --old=https://svn.apac

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map

2006-09-15 Thread Bernd Fondermann
On 9/14/06, Norman Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini schrieb: > I think that we have different goals and views about what is a minor > release, and how it should be reflected in the naming (numbering) scheme. > > For me (and as I understand also for Noel) a James x.(y+1)

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map

2006-09-15 Thread Stefano Bagnara
Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini wrote: I think that you can create a new version in jira and call it "next-minor" and make a list of things you want to merge back in this release. I hope it is fine for you if I won't work on this branch and to agree that this release should not block trunk developmen

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map

2006-09-15 Thread Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini
Stefano Bagnara wrote: Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini wrote: Yes, but we already used a different scheme for 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3.. so why change it for 2.4? Because IMHO it was wrong :-) . Ok, What I'm trying to say that consistency helps understanding: if you change the rules in the middle you

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map

2006-09-14 Thread Stefano Bagnara
Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini wrote: Furthermore I want to let you know that the new fastfail stuff need changes to configuration files and would no allow conditions (ii) and (iv), so using your numbering scheme would not be suitable for 2.4. My point is (without integralism) to be able to get 2.4

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map

2006-09-14 Thread Stefano Bagnara
Noel J. Bergman wrote: I will read and reply to the various comments later, but I want to put some figures into the picture. [..] $ ls -l diff.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 noel noel 2056010 Sep 14 13:19 diff.txt So there are 2MB worth of differences in the Java code between trunk and v2.3. Some of the 2

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map

2006-09-14 Thread Norman Maurer
Noel J. Bergman schrieb: I will read and reply to the various comments later, but I want to put some figures into the picture. $ du -hs branches/v2.3/src/java trunk/src/java 13M branches/v2.3/src/java 15M trunk/src/java $ svn diff --old=https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/james/server/

RE: JAMES v2.4 Road Map

2006-09-14 Thread Noel J. Bergman
I will read and reply to the various comments later, but I want to put some figures into the picture. $ du -hs branches/v2.3/src/java trunk/src/java 13M branches/v2.3/src/java 15M trunk/src/java $ svn diff --old=https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/james/server/branches/v2.3/src/j ava \

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map

2006-09-14 Thread Stefano Bagnara
Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini wrote: Yes, but we already used a different scheme for 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3.. so why change it for 2.4? Because IMHO it was wrong :-) . Ok, What I'm trying to say that consistency helps understanding: if you change the rules in the middle you don't help people. And if y

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map

2006-09-14 Thread Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini
Stefano Bagnara wrote: Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini wrote: I think that we have different goals and views about what is a minor release, and how it should be reflected in the naming (numbering) scheme. For me (and as I understand also for Noel) a James x.(y+1) release should be a release that

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map

2006-09-14 Thread Norman Maurer
Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini schrieb: I think that we have different goals and views about what is a minor release, and how it should be reflected in the naming (numbering) scheme. For me (and as I understand also for Noel) a James x.(y+1) release should be a release that (i) comes out after no m

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map

2006-09-14 Thread Stefano Bagnara
Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini wrote: I think that we have different goals and views about what is a minor release, and how it should be reflected in the naming (numbering) scheme. For me (and as I understand also for Noel) a James x.(y+1) release should be a release that (i) comes out after no mor

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map

2006-09-14 Thread Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini
I think that we have different goals and views about what is a minor release, and how it should be reflected in the naming (numbering) scheme. For me (and as I understand also for Noel) a James x.(y+1) release should be a release that (i) comes out after no more than 2-3 months after an x.y re

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map

2006-09-13 Thread Norman Maurer
Am Mittwoch, den 13.09.2006, 10:13 +0200 schrieb Stefano Bagnara: > Norman Maurer wrote: > >>> Now I think that not only we should include everything we have now in > >>> trunk, but we should also define a period of feature development where > >>> we try to put in every cool feature we are able to

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map

2006-09-13 Thread Stefano Bagnara
Norman Maurer wrote: >>> Now I think that not only we should include everything we have now in >>> trunk, but we should also define a period of feature development where >>> we try to put in every cool feature we are able to develop in this time >>> with one single restriction: keep storage compati

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map

2006-09-13 Thread Stefano Bagnara
Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Stefano Bagnara wrote: > >> Noel J. Bergman wrote: >>> As I said long ago, if you want to move trunk to 2.4, we should >>> review every difference. Then, if we agree that each one >>> represents a suitable risk/reward, fine. > >> I'm sorry but (as I also said long ago) I

RE: JAMES v2.4 Road Map

2006-09-12 Thread Norman Maurer
Am Dienstag, den 12.09.2006, 21:44 -0400 schrieb Noel J. Bergman: > Stefano Bagnara wrote: > > > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > > As I said long ago, if you want to move trunk to 2.4, we should > > > review every difference. Then, if we agree that each one > > > represents a suitable risk/reward, fin

RE: JAMES v2.4 Road Map

2006-09-12 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Stefano Bagnara wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > As I said long ago, if you want to move trunk to 2.4, we should > > review every difference. Then, if we agree that each one > > represents a suitable risk/reward, fine. > I'm sorry but (as I also said long ago) I'm on the opposite position > a

Re: JAMES v2.4 Road Map

2006-09-12 Thread Stefano Bagnara
Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Norman Maurer wrote: > Personally, I'm ready to make it a release, and start work on 2.4, > which should be a careful selection of things to add, not a core dump from > trunk. >>> We never agreed on this roadmap. And I think I won't agree on this >>> approach eve