The wiki list is for trying to convince the struts developers to take Struts 1.3 chain to a place that alternative upload applications can be submitted? I think this is an irrelevant response to a substantial question.
Jacki On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:14:28 -0800, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What you describe is pretty much what the Wiki is for > (http://wiki.apache.org/struts). There are no limitations on who can > post to it (other than having to have a valid login), and nothing that > is on topic - i.e. generally related to the development of Struts - is > likely to be frowned on. > > Of course, that won't work any better than mailing lists do until > people start writing code instead of writing words. If you want to > see some feature constructed, make it so, by doing it! (Among other > reasons, this is why you see me focusing more on code than on the > mailing lists, for example.) > > If nobody ever does this, wishes will just remain wishes. > > Craig > > On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:59:56 -0500, Frank W. Zammetti > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You know what might actually make a wish list more interesting (at least > > to me)? What if we had a site we could go to and see a list of all the > > pie-in-the-sky kinds of things people wanted, and I as someone who might > > want to contribute could say "gee, X over here sounds very interesting > > to me, I'd like to do that" and I could kind of "assign" it to myself? > > > > This might sound a little bit like Bugzilla or SourceForge, but I think > > it would serve a different purpose and have some different features... > > > > For instance, what it one of the things it did was every week or two > > sent out an eMail to the person who said they were working on something > > and requested an update? If no response was recieved in 48 hours lets > > say, then the person loses their "assignment". That doesn't mean they > > can't still work on it, just that as far as the community knows, no one > > is actively working on that project. > > > > Such a site would serve as something of a central clearing house for the > > various wish list items people have. A person could go there and see > > what people want, what is being worked on, what the current status is, > > etc. This would minimize duplication of effort, and would also help two > > people interested in the same thing get together and help each other. > > > > I don't propose that this would be anything officially sanctioned, > > certainly not initially, nor would it be anything other than kind of a > > meeting place and status database (i.e., I'm not talking about storing > > code or posting releases like SF or anything). > > > > It just seems to me that we all have our own wish lists, and some of us > > are willing to put in some effort to implement some of the ideas. > > Wouldn't we all help ourselves and each other by introducing some minor > > level of organization to such efforts? We certainly can't all know what > > each other is doing all the time, so isn't anything that facilitates > > communication a Good Thing(tm)? > > > > I would be more than willing to put such a site together, and I'd even > > be willing to host it (assuming it didn't prove to be a financial > > burden). But I'd like to know if I'm the only one that thinks it might > > be a good idea or not first. :) > > > > -- > > Frank W. Zammetti > > Founder and Chief Software Architect > > Omnytex Technologies > > http://www.omnytex.com > > > > Ted Husted wrote: > > > On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:56:02 -0800, Dakota Jack wrote: > > > > > >> Hope this is helpful. If not, please understand it was meant to be > > >> helpful. > > > > > > > > > Wish lists like this are mildly interesting, but what's helpful is when > > > people give back to the community by creating new extensions. > > > > > > A Struts Upload extension would probably be interesting to a lot of > > > people. But someone who uses one must be the one to create it. Just like > > > when Steve created ssl-ext, and Hubert created FormDef, and Frank created > > > WS, and Don created Scripting, and once upon a time, when David created > > > Validator and Cedric created Tiles. > > > > > > All of us are writing applications. The difference is that a few kind > > > souls package their stuff to share with others. > > > > > > -Ted. > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > . > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it float on its back." ~Dakota Jack~ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
