Sam Ruby wrote: > > Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > > > > I just worry that announcements of the 'future potential problems' > > could be misleading to a new user who is looking at Velocity to > > see if its worth investing some time to experiment with.If they > > think it's 'broken' because of a gump message, then people would > > be getting the wrong impression. > > Simple fix: keep it working! ;-) > > I just checked, and was surprised to see that the velocity messages had my > name on it. I thought having automated e-mails for velocity was on request > of Jon, and my convention was to make Jon appear as the sender of the ones > he requested. Hm. Gump didn't find that ? ;) > > In any case, if the consensus is that these e-mails aren't wanted, or if > there are suggestions as to what the subject line or content of the e-mails > should look like, please let me know. (BTW - Jon doesn't believe that I > should give projects an opportunity to opt out; I don't think any project > will. Perhaps velocity will surprise me, but I think not). Not asking to opt out. Just suggesting that we may be able to tune what Gump is doing to be even more usable. If you remember, what started this was a private question :) > [SNIP] > > Did you see what he did? He rjust emoved the offending ant task, > > and was a little surprised : he stated it worked fine using the > > ant that we choose to include with Velocity. > > I was referring to a different problem. Perhaps it was introduced and > fixed without your even knowing it? ;-) Nope. Saw it, sent jason a heads up privately, but he was on it already. He was in the midst of a complicated change, I know that he follows this list as closely as I do, and didn't see any reason to publicly tell him about a message that I knew he was reading. > Had to do with default > configurations being merged with the properties instead of the properties > overriding, and other areas of the code not being able to handle > multi-valued properties gracefully. Like I said : he was in the middle of a complicated change. > > > What would be nice is a 'Gump server' somewhere - so I can give it > > an email address and tell it to gump the vel CVS in a way that I > > specify - give a list of build targets or something.... then it > > could test in an independent way and email me the message... > > Sounds like a great idea, when will it be available? ;-) Not sure. Maybe you can bundle it into the library project, since that is turning out to be common resources for the rest of Jakarta. geir -- Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developing for the web? See http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/
