[rant] seperate policy change from proposal discussion

2006-08-07 Thread Leo Simons
It must be sooo frustrating for new projects coming in. They read the websites, read the mail archives, talk to loads and loads of people, and when they think they get it all right they send in a proposal. And then, more often than not, someone somewhere within the ASF sees "something" that is som

Re: [VOTE] Accept Glasgow into Incubator

2006-08-07 Thread Adinarayana Sakala
+1 (non-binding). -Adi On 8/3/06, Cliff Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I believe all open questions about the Glasgow proposal (originally submitted as "Blaze") have now been addressed enough to call a vote for accepting the project for incubation. Therefore, as the champion of this projec

Re: Glasgow naming: proposal

2006-08-07 Thread Craig L Russell
On Aug 7, 2006, at 12:49 PM, Kim van der Riet wrote: I have been somewhat surprised at the amount of debate surrounding the name of the proposed Glasgow project. Same here, and I've been on this alias for over a year. Most of the discussion earlier has been over infringement issues, not a

Re: Jini?

2006-08-07 Thread Mike Kienenberger
On 8/7/06, Sanjiva Weerawarana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So we no longer do names like "Apache SOAP" because they give the impression that there can be just one and only on implementation of the technology in Apache. I know changing the name is a *really* tough thing for Jini. However, is Jini

Re: Jini?

2006-08-07 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 10:55 -0700, Leo Simons wrote: > FWIW your private discussion (where Geir and me where CCed) was not a "crime" > (yes I saw the smiley!). The ASF understands how hard it can sometimes be to > "interface" open source projects to the corporate world. Absolutely +1. > Yet it wo

Re: Maven 2 repo for incubating project releases?

2006-08-07 Thread Henri Yandell
On 8/7/06, Daniel Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Was there any resolution/agreement on this thread? Any actions taken (like creation of the incubating repositories)? The Yoko project was asked to publish some SNAPSHOT's (by another apache project BTW), but they're not sure what to put in the

Re: Jini?

2006-08-07 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 14:13 -0400, Jim Hurley wrote: > > We did start considering alternative names, but there's a strong > reluctance to changing names. That's primarily because of the name > recognition we've built up around the technology and Community > during the past number of years, as well

RE: Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-08-07 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Johan Compagner wrote: > The feeling i get from the mail below is that incubator releases > are not really meant for all end users.. You really only want > the users that really knows that it is an incubator release. > But for me wicket-2.0 will be a full release a real release that > every user

Re: Too many licenses? Was: [vote] Accept Glasgow

2006-08-07 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 8/7/06, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SOP effective when? http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/WicketProposal surely doesn't. Citations please, or are you just being inventive ;-? Look at most of the prior proposals - they have affiliations listed. It's especially more import

Re: Too many licenses? Was: [vote] Accept Glasgow

2006-08-07 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > On 8/7/06, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It's not complicated, folks. ASF projects consist of individuals. >> Adding company affiliations after each of the initial committers names >> suggests, to some, that the day they move on to another company t

Re: Too many licenses? Was: [vote] Accept Glasgow

2006-08-07 Thread Carl Trieloff
William, I have made some edits to the wiki on the Mechanisms for feedback section to clean up the language, based on some of the misunderstanding and to reflect the discussion from the list onto the wiki. Tried to keep it short, but can edit more in if required. Carl. William A. Rowe, Jr.

Re: Too many licenses? Was: [vote] Accept Glasgow

2006-08-07 Thread Carl Trieloff
I placed company names after names, as the last proposal to get voted on did not have company names on it and was requested to add company names. Nothing more than that. Carl. Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On 8/7/06, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's not complicated, folks. A

Re: Glasgow naming: proposal

2006-08-07 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 8/7/06, Kim van der Riet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have been somewhat surprised at the amount of debate surrounding the name of the proposed Glasgow project. It seems that this project has become entangled in an issue overdue for discussion within Apache. Perhaps the emotive issue of using

Re: Glasgow naming: proposal

2006-08-07 Thread Matthias Wessendorf
That's right! adffaces "solved" the naming during the incubation (still ongoing;)) But... you should note that the code donation came from Oracle, so no "naming issues" (on adf faces) on this side. I am not really sure what happens when you call your incubation project "vista" or "netweaver" fo

Re: Glasgow naming: proposal

2006-08-07 Thread Mike Kienenberger
Kim, I am not an Incubator PMC member, but past experience over the last few months shows that the name is not a barrier to entry for the Incubator.For example, ADFFaces is an incubating project with a name trademarked by Oracle, and part of the incubating process has to been to change that n

Re: Re: Too many licenses? Was: [vote] Accept Glasgow

2006-08-07 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 8/7/06, Cliff Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yep -- it's been fun for me to watch us go back and forth on this as I try to advise people outside the ASF on what the best thing to do is (since every proposer I've run into really actually wants to do the most acceptable thing). not so m

Glasgow naming: proposal

2006-08-07 Thread Kim van der Riet
I have been somewhat surprised at the amount of debate surrounding the name of the proposed Glasgow project. It seems that this project has become entangled in an issue overdue for discussion within Apache. Perhaps the emotive issue of using (another) proper noun has sparked a much-needed debate. I

Re: Accept Glasgow into Incubator - Spec Terms

2006-08-07 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > I'm sorry, but respectfully -1 this proposal as written. My specific > objection > is to the language below, I don't see anything otherwise objectionable in the > proposal. > > The ASF does not recognize corporate members; all of our contributions are > measured o

Re: Maven 2 repo for incubating project releases?

2006-08-07 Thread Daniel Kulp
Was there any resolution/agreement on this thread? Any actions taken (like creation of the incubating repositories)? The Yoko project was asked to publish some SNAPSHOT's (by another apache project BTW), but they're not sure what to put in their distributionManagement section of the poms.

Re: Project Naming (was Re: [VOTE] Accept Glasgow into Incubator)

2006-08-07 Thread Craig L Russell
This discussion reminds me of the legal case that McDonalds brought against a small coffee shop in Half Moon Bay who had been doing business for 20 years as McCoffee's. Once McD discovered that they could claim any food-related trademark beginning with Mc, their lawyers were off in hot purs

Account request for new committer: Raymond Feng

2006-08-07 Thread Jim Marino
Could an account please be created for Raymond, as he has been voted a committer? 9 +1s No -1s http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ws-tuscany-dev/200608.mbox/% [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preferred userid: 1) rfeng 2) raymondfeng Full name: Zhaohui Feng (Raymond) Forwarding email address: [EMAIL

Re: Jini?

2006-08-07 Thread Jim Hurley
Hi Matthias- Just to clarify the Jini area on Java.net (jini.dev.java.net)... the projects there are shared and/or collaborative works that primarily build on the core infrastructure (that would be in the Apache Jini project). Those projects include: tools, containers, abstraction frameworks, int

Re: Too many licenses? Was: [vote] Accept Glasgow

2006-08-07 Thread Cliff Schmidt
On 8/7/06, Justin Erenkrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/7/06, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not complicated, folks. ASF projects consist of individuals. Adding > company affiliations after each of the initial committers names suggests, to > some, that the day they

Re: Too many licenses? Was: [vote] Accept Glasgow

2006-08-07 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 8/7/06, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's not complicated, folks. ASF projects consist of individuals. Adding company affiliations after each of the initial committers names suggests, to some, that the day they move on to another company their contribution to the project e

Re: Jini?

2006-08-07 Thread Jim Hurley
On Aug 7, 2006, at 12:19 PM, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: So whatever happened to the Jini proposal?? I just remembered that there was a lot of discussion but don't recall the conclusion. Sorry - we hit a snag around the name, and have been working to try and get untangled. There seemed to be

Re: Too many licenses? Was: [vote] Accept Glasgow

2006-08-07 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Carl Trieloff wrote: > >> But to the extent that ASF contributors offer productive growth and >> formative input into the specification, the way this section is phrased >> is not acceptable. If the contributor wish[es], and if under these terms >> their contributions merits participation, that con

Re: [VOTE] Accept Glasgow into Incubator

2006-08-07 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 8/3/06, Cliff Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please vote on the Glasgow proposal, as described below, which can also be found at: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/GlasgowProposal?action=recall&rev=1. +1 i do have a few comments i agree with the substance of a couple of important poi

Re: Jini?

2006-08-07 Thread Leo Simons
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 06:46:58PM +0200, Mark Brouwer wrote: > We had some discussions 'in private' how to deal with this [1] and > concluded last Friday to proceed this in [EMAIL PROTECTED] I expect Jim > Hurley to follow up soon as he represents the owner of the trademark. > > [1] which by now

Re: Jini?

2006-08-07 Thread Mark Brouwer
Matthias Wessendorf wrote: I think they ended up at java.net (see [1]). Last week or so I saw that and was wondering myself, b/c of the proposal here. Hi, The current distribution of the JTSK (the Jini Starter Kit) has shown up at java.net but that had to do with the old jini.org website closi

Re: Re: incubation process for open development open source projects

2006-08-07 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 8/7/06, Andrus Adamchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Aug 7, 2006, at 6:37 AM, Leo Simons wrote: > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 09:05:13PM +0100, robert burrell donkin wrote: >> the process is democractic - graduation is by election > ... >> requirements are assessed democractically > ... > > ple

Re: Jini?

2006-08-07 Thread Matthias Wessendorf
I think they ended up at java.net (see [1]). Last week or so I saw that and was wondering myself, b/c of the proposal here. -Matthias [1] https://jini.dev.java.net/ On 8/7/06, Sanjiva Weerawarana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So whatever happened to the Jini proposal?? I just remembered that ther

Jini?

2006-08-07 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
So whatever happened to the Jini proposal?? I just remembered that there was a lot of discussion but don't recall the conclusion. Sanjiva. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTE

Roller inaccuracy Was: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-08-07 Thread Henri Yandell
On 7/30/06, Justin Erenkrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The problem that Roller did was that they took code that was in our SVN repository, removed the license blocks and relicensed it to LGPL (I think) and posted it to java.net. In two words, "Uh, no." Sorry this is a little late in a reply

Account request for new Tuscany committer: Kelvin Goodson

2006-08-07 Thread ant elder
Tuscany has voted in Kelvin as a committer, could an account be created for him please. Preferred userid: kelvin Full name: Kelvin James Goodson Forwarding email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Requested Karma for: ws ws-tuscany ICLA has been submitted and now appears on http://people.apache.org/~jim/commit

Re: incubation process for open development open source projects

2006-08-07 Thread Andrus Adamchik
On Aug 7, 2006, at 6:37 AM, Leo Simons wrote: On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 09:05:13PM +0100, robert burrell donkin wrote: the process is democractic - graduation is by election ... requirements are assessed democractically ... please stop saying democratic -- its a specific kind of meritocrat

Re: incubation process for open development open source projects [WAS Re: Glasgow - community? specs? other issues?]

2006-08-07 Thread Alex Karasulu
Eelco Hillenius wrote: IMHO the incubator should not impose timescales or a schedule on a project but a project may decide to impose a timescale on itself. My thought is that a time scale would be part of the proposal. If that proposal is voted in, it would also mean the time scale is excepted

RE: Project Naming (was Re: [VOTE] Accept Glasgow into Incubator)

2006-08-07 Thread Gav....
> -Original Message- > From: robert burrell donkin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 7 August 2006 4:41 AM > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Project Naming (was Re: [VOTE] Accept Glasgow into Incubator) > > given the amount of upset caused by names, i think tha

Re: incubation process for open development open source projects

2006-08-07 Thread Leo Simons
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 09:05:13PM +0100, robert burrell donkin wrote: > the process is democractic - graduation is by election ... > requirements are assessed democractically ... please stop saying democratic -- its a specific kind of meritocratic, with merit only measured for things done within/