Re: Forums/Mailing lists Was: Starting a java specs project

2005-12-31 Thread Henri Yandell
On 12/30/05, Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/30/05, Thomas Dudziak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 12/30/05, Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > What would Jyve give us that Nabble doesn't do for us already - and > > without > > > us having to lift a finger, to

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Dec 31, 2005, at 7:34 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Just the tabbed and menu navigation. And some other little bits that no one probably uses. FTR, I hate the tabs, find the layout unreadable, and nobody sees that the important documentation has never been updated. Half the screen real esta

Collecting Proposed changes

2005-12-31 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Folks, Please review the items here: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ProposedChanges Please feel free to add/modify/delete or start a new thread here on any issue that you care about. Let's give it a week and then ask the incubator PMC to VOTE on items on that page. thanks, dims -- Davanum Sri

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > I don't want a staging server at all! It's *massive* overkill and > something I don't want to have any part of. Fine, let's take the build server out of this equation, because it addresses somewhat different needs. > The way to solve the 'how do I build this?' for a p

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Geir, > [David] has been studly about it, but could he be studly today? > I updated the main projects page and need that to be published. Hopefully so. IIRC, David is in Oz, and so it should be just past 5AM for him. --- Noel ---

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Mads Toftum
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 08:41:35AM -0800, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > The fact that we have to rely on a human being means to me (and probably > where Mads is coming from) that the entire workflow is broken. -- justin > Exactly! Depending on a 3rd party as part of the process is what really blows

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 12:47:51PM -0500, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > > > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > > if you look at plans for site-dev, they don't involve people doing > > > their own builds, they involve a build server. > > > Anakia sites don't need a build server! I w

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
He has been studly about it, but could he be studly today? I updated the main projects page and need that to be published... Noel J. Bergman wrote: Mads Toftum wrote: Whoa! so the workflow is tied to David watching for commits? When someone said that at apachecon, I thought it was a joke -

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > if you look at plans for site-dev, they don't involve people doing > > their own builds, they involve a build server. > Anakia sites don't need a build server! I would never feel comfortable > about committing a change that I couldn't review

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > How would even having a local copy of the JARs prevent the problem that > Forrest won't actually generate the site? I don't believe that to be correct, but we can clarify with David and Ross. > Don't get me wrong; having everything included in incubator/site *is* a > r

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 11:10:13AM -0500, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Leo Simons wrote: > > > I think what it comes down to is what we want here for the > > incubator is a "stable", or preferably "mature" tool, and > > forrest really is currently too much of a moving target > > That can be addressed

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 11:04:18AM -0500, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Mads Toftum wrote: > > Whoa! so the workflow is tied to David watching for commits? > > When someone said that at apachecon, I thought it was a joke - I'm > > beginning to understand more and more of why people are annoyed. > > Why

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 01:35:38PM +0100, Torsten Curdt wrote: > As long as everyone has to have a tool locally to build and commit a > site in order to change *content*, people *will* find the tool annoying. > A smaller tool maybe less ...but it's *is* an additional step that > should > not be r

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Leo Simons wrote: > I think what it comes down to is what we want here for the > incubator is a "stable", or preferably "mature" tool, and > forrest really is currently too much of a moving target That can be addressed, in part, by packaging Forrest in our site build structure, so that when you c

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Ross Gardler wrote: > In my opinion sticking with Forrest will be damaging to both parties unless: > - people here are willing to actually respond to Davids proposals > (not necessarily agree, but at least respond) I agree that it isn't fair to always file feature requests in the form of complai

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Mads Toftum wrote: > Whoa! so the workflow is tied to David watching for commits? > When someone said that at apachecon, I thought it was a joke - I'm > beginning to understand more and more of why people are annoyed. Why? The man has been tremendous about it. He publishes daily. And if you loo

Re: simplifying the generation of Incubator website

2005-12-31 Thread Leo Simons
I missed this originally...Noel told me to go respond anyway... http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/200512.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] David Crossley wrote on Fri, 4 Nov 2005 17:31:58 +1100: > Now on to the issues with using Forrest. > > Yes we know that it is a little cumb

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Mads Toftum
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 10:34:04AM -0500, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Mads Toftum wrote: > > the logo for Apachecon that finished more than two weeks ago > > Fixed the next time that David regenerates the site. > Whoa! so the workflow is tied to David watching for commits? When someone said that at

Fwd: simplifying the generation of Incubator website

2005-12-31 Thread Leo Simons
- Forwarded message from David Crossley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: David Crossley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 17:31:58 +1100 Subject: simplifying the generation of Incubator website To: general@incubator.apache.org Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org List-Id: I would li

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Mads Toftum wrote: > I don't see much sophistication in the current site Just the tabbed and menu navigation. And some other little bits that no one probably uses. > the logo for Apachecon that finished more than two weeks ago Fixed the next time that David regenerates the site. > > Personall

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Leo Simons
Hi gang, On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 09:54:44PM -0500, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > What shall we do then in incubator? Any idea for a productive outcome? > > Either see what improvements we can get from Forrest, or convert to anakia > and have a less sophisticated site. > > Personally, I'd like to s

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Ross, > Forrest has been moving towards the site-build proposal steadily. Most of > our devs are on the site-dev list and see what little is discussed there. > We are actually much closer to it than people not onthe Forrest lists will > realise. We've not reported to the sie-dev list because we ar

Re: Starting a java specs project

2005-12-31 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
I was going to respond last night, but I'd been incubatored-out. Noel J. Bergman wrote: Davanum Srinivas wrote: this is just for sources of javax.* NOT implementations. One location for a servlet-api.jar, jaxrpc.jar, saaj.jar, xml-apis.jar. Geir wrote: No - the spec jars for those thing

Re: Starting a java specs project

2005-12-31 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Saturday 31 December 2005 07:36, Noel J. Bergman wrote: In any event, <...> an uber-umbrella isn't making sense to me, so far. +1 Don't force things in place. To me, the most logical step forward is that most "uninteresting, boring, stenography" of specs sits in

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Torsten Curdt
Personally, I'd like to see if the Forrest folks can "redeem" the product's reputation here, and make people happy in a timely manner. Incubator has been using Forrest for how long? So how long do you want to go on with something that seems to generate a lot of annoyance with anyone but you an

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Ross Gardler
Noel J. Bergman wrote: What shall we do then in incubator? Any idea for a productive outcome? Either see what improvements we can get from Forrest, or convert to anakia and have a less sophisticated site. Personally, I'd like to see if the Forrest folks can "redeem" the product's reputation

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread rgardler_apache
> David, > >> Some troubles at the ASF are that: >> a) We cannot run java-based applications on apache >> hardware (perhaps when the zones.a.o machine is >> out of testing phase). > >> b) There are various projects using Forrest >> but no ASF-wide installation for them to use >> server-side. > > -

Re: Starting a java specs project

2005-12-31 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Saturday 31 December 2005 07:36, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > In any > event, <...> an > uber-umbrella isn't making sense to me, so far. +1 Don't force things in place. To me, the most logical step forward is that most "uninteresting, boring, stenography" of specs sits in Geronimo, mainly becaus

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Mads Toftum
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 09:54:44PM -0500, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Either see what improvements we can get from Forrest, or convert to anakia > and have a less sophisticated site. > I don't see much sophistication in the current site - or is it the logo for Apachecon that finished more than two we

Re: Forums/Mailing lists Was: Starting a java specs project

2005-12-31 Thread Thomas Dudziak
On 12/31/05, Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From an overall ASF perspective, I'd be more likely to go with the one that > has less overhead. Nabble is already there, doing the forum thing, and > completely managed outside of the ASF. Nobody at the ASF has to do anything > but add new m