Re: Lang: ObjectUtils

2013-07-06 Thread Henri Yandell
I don't see any value having the first two methods - replacing the '==' sign is a bit too far in the 'provide simple methods' direction I think :) I think the third method is already in Lang as: ArrayUtils.contains(array, null); Having a containsNull is semantically nice, but I'm not sure it

Re: [JCS] Remove tempbuilds/ directory from SVN?

2013-07-06 Thread sebb
On 6 July 2013 15:18, Gary Gregory wrote: > We should not have builds in SVN IMO. [Apart from the builds under dist/ of course.] OK by me to delete; they are only RCs anyway. > Gary > > On Jul 6, 2013, at 10:10, Benedikt Ritter wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> while I was working on requests for git mirr

Re: [JCS] Remove tempbuilds/ directory from SVN?

2013-07-06 Thread Gary Gregory
We should not have builds in SVN IMO. Gary On Jul 6, 2013, at 10:10, Benedikt Ritter wrote: > Hi, > > while I was working on requests for git mirrors (discussed here [1]) I > recognized that JCS has a tempbuilds/ directory in SVN. It contains release > candidates for previous releases. > > This

[JCS] Remove tempbuilds/ directory from SVN?

2013-07-06 Thread Benedikt Ritter
Hi, while I was working on requests for git mirrors (discussed here [1]) I recognized that JCS has a tempbuilds/ directory in SVN. It contains release candidates for previous releases. This may or may not be a problem when for creation of a git mirror by infra. But the question is, do we really n

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-06 Thread sebb
On 6 July 2013 14:48, Benedikt Ritter wrote: > 2013/7/6 sebb > >> On 6 July 2013 13:52, Benedikt Ritter wrote: >> > 2013/7/4 Benedikt Ritter >> > >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> we had this discussion lately where we talked about attracting new >> >> contributors for commons [1]. Over the past few days I

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-06 Thread Benedikt Ritter
2013/7/6 sebb > On 6 July 2013 13:52, Benedikt Ritter wrote: > > 2013/7/4 Benedikt Ritter > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> we had this discussion lately where we talked about attracting new > >> contributors for commons [1]. Over the past few days I've been thinking > >> about this topic again and I've c

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-06 Thread sebb
On 6 July 2013 13:52, Benedikt Ritter wrote: > 2013/7/4 Benedikt Ritter > >> Hi, >> >> we had this discussion lately where we talked about attracting new >> contributors for commons [1]. Over the past few days I've been thinking >> about this topic again and I've come to the conclusion that there

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Commons Collections 4.0-alpha1 released

2013-07-06 Thread Benedikt Ritter
Hi Thomas, thanks for the great work! The side bar at http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-collections/ just lists "Release Nots v4.0" and "JavaDoc v4.0". I think it would be better if that were "Release Notes v4.0-alpha1" and "JavaDoc v4.0-alpha1" Benedikt 2013/7/6 Thomas Neidhart > The

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-06 Thread Benedikt Ritter
2013/7/4 Benedikt Ritter > Hi, > > we had this discussion lately where we talked about attracting new > contributors for commons [1]. Over the past few days I've been thinking > about this topic again and I've come to the conclusion that there are > several things we could do to improve our "publ

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Commons Collections 4.0-alpha1 released

2013-07-06 Thread Thomas Neidhart
The Apache Commons team is pleased to announce the release of commons-collections4-4.0-alpha1! Commons Collections is a project to develop and maintain collection classes based on and inspired by the JDK collection framework. Collections 4 uses the generics features of Java 5 and is not compatible