Re: IRC Channel?

2006-08-14 Thread Ian Holsman
On 15/08/2006, at 4:16 PM, Danny Angus wrote: On 15/08/06, Ian Holsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't think we (the ASF) need to support the weakest link of the chain either. if a member can't access a project due to limitations of corporate policy or timezone, we should be OK with that t

Re: IRC Channel?

2006-08-14 Thread Danny Angus
On 15/08/06, Ian Holsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't think we (the ASF) need to support the weakest link of the chain either. if a member can't access a project due to limitations of corporate policy or timezone, we should be OK with that too. not every member has to be able to participat

Re: IRC Channel?

2006-08-14 Thread Ian Holsman
you can either acknowledge that some people prefer to use IRC to communicate, and accept that while it isn't the best medium, or the one you would choose, it is the one that group prefers. OR you can try to stifle their choice, and force them to use something which isn't natural to them (i

Re: IRC Channel?

2006-08-14 Thread Eelco Hillenius
Well, what can I say other that there seem to be different opinions on the issue. Maybe those different opinions can be summarized like this: a) IRC is harmful for open development b) IRC is not harmful for open development per se and can in fact be a useful additional communication channel *if*

Re: Jini : Separate Governance and Implementation Projects

2006-08-14 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Bob Scheifler wrote: > Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: >>> I'm extremely reluctant to start out with two podlings. >> Why? I think we are talking about two very different community dynamics. > > For the reason I stated: I don't believe we have sufficient commitments > from people willing and able to r

Re: Jini : Separate Governance and Implementation Projects

2006-08-14 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Bob, > > What is your concern? Can you please try to be simple and specific about > it? > > For example, what if we created [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Forget > the question of "how many podlings" --- I am simply talking about a list > related to specif

RE: Jini : Separate Governance and Implementation Projects

2006-08-14 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Bob, What is your concern? Can you please try to be simple and specific about it? For example, what if we created [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forget the question of "how many podlings" --- I am simply talking about a list related to specification work, and a list related to implemen

August 2006 Incubator Board Report

2006-08-14 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Lots of activity in the past month: - Discussion of Celtixfire, Wicket, Qpid, and other proposed projects. - Discussion of how to allow the use of Maven without co-mingling of Incubator artifacts with other Apache artifacts. Henri is in the process of setting up a separate repository

Re: Specifications as (part of) ASF projects (was RE: Too many licenses? Was: [vote] Accept Glasgow)

2006-08-14 Thread Craig L Russell
On Aug 14, 2006, at 9:56 AM, Granqvist, Hans wrote: ... I would be in favor of such an approach. Honestly, I would vastly prefer to have Open Specifications managed under ASF processes than under the JCP, OASIS, etc. Yea, I think it could be a good idea. I agree. Just a few thoughts on t

Re: Setting up a Maven 2 repo Was: Maven 2 repo for incubating project releases?

2006-08-14 Thread James Strachan
+1 On 8/15/06, Davanum Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: +1 from me. On 8/14/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/7/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > people.apache.org/repo/m1-incubating-repository > > > people.apache.org/repo/m2-incubating-repository > > > >

Re: Setting up a Maven 2 repo Was: Maven 2 repo for incubating project releases?

2006-08-14 Thread Davanum Srinivas
+1 from me. On 8/14/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/7/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > people.apache.org/repo/m1-incubating-repository > > people.apache.org/repo/m2-incubating-repository > > Noel, shall I go ahead and create the above? They get my +1 from a > r

RE: Dynamic message selectors and message scheduling

2006-08-14 Thread Noel J. Bergman
James Strachan wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > My particular use case involves selecting the next message in the > > destination whose scheduled time is less than or equal to now. If there > > were a "now" operation available in the query language, I wouldn't have to > > change the selector,

Re: Jini : Separate Governance and Implementation Projects

2006-08-14 Thread Bob Scheifler
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > I could go add that to the website if that would help. We're not a > legalistic community where exploiting loopholes or lack of written law > is encouraged... Sorry, it was meant as a simple question. It's extremely hard for a newcomer like me to distinguish between pe

Setting up a Maven 2 repo Was: Maven 2 repo for incubating project releases?

2006-08-14 Thread Henri Yandell
On 8/7/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > people.apache.org/repo/m1-incubating-repository > people.apache.org/repo/m2-incubating-repository Noel, shall I go ahead and create the above? They get my +1 from a repository@ point of view. Pinging on this to make sure the Incubator is h

Re: Jini : Separate Governance and Implementation Projects

2006-08-14 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Bob Scheifler wrote: > Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: >> We have a tradition, for good reason, for not giving our projects >> "technology domain" ownership for implementations. I'd never support >> "Apache EMail" or "Apache Web". > > Is it written somewhere that ASF project names must mean "ownership

Re: [Vote] Re: Abdera 0.1.0 Release Candidate

2006-08-14 Thread James M Snell
Whoops. This is an artifact of switching my trunk image over to branch. I'll pull those jars out. - James Garrett Rooney wrote: > On 8/14/06, Garrett Rooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 8/14/06, James M Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Ok, so we've addressed most of the issues raised

Re: [Vote] Re: Abdera 0.1.0 Release Candidate

2006-08-14 Thread Garrett Rooney
On 8/14/06, Garrett Rooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/14/06, James M Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, so we've addressed most of the issues raised in the note below and > believe we are ready to move forward with 0.1.0. The new zips are > available at http://people.apache.org/~jmsnell

Re: Jini : Separate Governance and Implementation Projects

2006-08-14 Thread Bob Scheifler
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: >>I'm extremely reluctant to start out with two podlings. > > Why? I think we are talking about two very different community dynamics. For the reason I stated: I don't believe we have sufficient commitments from people willing and able to run a broad-based standards proc

Re: Jini : Separate Governance and Implementation Projects

2006-08-14 Thread Bob Scheifler
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > We have a tradition, for good reason, for not giving our projects > "technology domain" ownership for implementations. I'd never support > "Apache EMail" or "Apache Web". Is it written somewhere that ASF project names must mean "ownership of" rather than merely "categor

Re: Jini : Separate Governance and Implementation Projects

2006-08-14 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 12:41 -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: >> We have a tradition, for good reason, for not giving our projects >> "technology domain" ownership for implementations. I'd never support >> "Apache EMail" or "Apache Web". That's why if we are going to

Re: Jini : Separate Governance and Implementation Projects

2006-08-14 Thread Bob Scheifler
Craig L Russell wrote: > This is an interesting turn. The Jini web site doesn't currently say > anything like this. It talks about "the specification" and "the > implementation" as separable pieces. They are "separable", and I'm not suggesting that change. At the same time, they have not been

Re: IRC Channel?

2006-08-14 Thread Danny Angus
I'd like to add my support to those who, far more eloquently than I could have done, have explained why IRC cannot be an inclusive or truly public forum for discussion. I have always taken the view that email is an essential characteristic of the way the ASF works, and it is precisely because it

Re: Jini : Separate Governance and Implementation Projects

2006-08-14 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 21:42 +0300, Jukka Zitting wrote: > However, I'm still confused at the need to bring in a separate spec > project. The Jini proposal states the scope of the project to be the > "implementation" of the specification, and that scope is still valid > regardless of what happens wi

Re: [Vote] Re: Abdera 0.1.0 Release Candidate

2006-08-14 Thread Garrett Rooney
On 8/14/06, James M Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, so we've addressed most of the issues raised in the note below and believe we are ready to move forward with 0.1.0. The new zips are available at http://people.apache.org/~jmsnell +1 from me (binding) -garrett -

Re: Jini : Separate Governance and Implementation Projects

2006-08-14 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On 8/14/06, Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We have a tradition, for good reason, for not giving our projects "technology domain" ownership for implementations. I'd never support "Apache EMail" or "Apache Web". That's why if we are going to have "Apache Jini", it shouldn't be

Re: Jini : Separate Governance and Implementation Projects

2006-08-14 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 12:41 -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > > We have a tradition, for good reason, for not giving our projects > "technology domain" ownership for implementations. I'd never support > "Apache EMail" or "Apache Web". That's why if we are going to have > "Apache Jini", it should

Re: IRC Channel?

2006-08-14 Thread sophitia que
On 8/14/06, Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eelco Hillenius wrote: > Public IRC, free for anyone to join, at a channel that is 'officially' > published/ promoted however, does. No it doesn't.It's exclusionary in that email allows timezone independent participation, and IMO,

Re: Glasgow - new name proposal

2006-08-14 Thread Carl Trieloff
If there are no more last comments on the name by COB, I will update the proposal with Qpid and we will use this for ASF resource setup. Regards Carl. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-

Re: IRC Channel?

2006-08-14 Thread Yoav Shapira
Hi, Besides voicing a strong +1 to Jim and Geir's comments, I want to add one more: 30 users online at any given time - that our list traffic got more focussed and thus more valuable for following/ accessing the archives. Focus may be nice, but it's sometimes counter to innovation. In my expe

Re: IRC Channel?

2006-08-14 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Eelco Hillenius wrote: >> The community learns about each other in a shared, non-exclusionary >> method. Private Email/IM/IRC does NOT foster that. > > Public IRC, free for anyone to join, at a channel that is 'officially' > published/ promoted however, does. No it doesn't.It's exclusiona

Re: IRC Channel?

2006-08-14 Thread Eelco Hillenius
The community learns about each other in a shared, non-exclusionary method. Private Email/IM/IRC does NOT foster that. Public IRC, free for anyone to join, at a channel that is 'officially' published/ promoted however, does. Like I stated earlier, I actually believe that since we started suppor

Re: Jini : Separate Governance and Implementation Projects

2006-08-14 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi Bob, On Aug 14, 2006, at 8:17 AM, Bob Scheifler wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: However, we do have a chance here to host the governance and spec process for JINI. Therefore, I'd like to propose that we create two podlings, one for JINI governance, and one for building the implementation

RE: Specifications as (part of) ASF projects (was RE: Too many licenses? Was: [vote] Accept Glasgow)

2006-08-14 Thread Granqvist, Hans
> ... > I would be in favor of such an approach. Honestly, I would > vastly prefer to have Open Specifications managed under ASF > processes than under the JCP, OASIS, etc. Yea, I think it could be a good idea. Just a few thoughts on the process: How do you envision editorship of the spec?

Re: Jini : Separate Governance and Implementation Projects

2006-08-14 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > On 8/14/06, Bob Scheifler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm extremely reluctant to start out with two podlings. >> I'm not sure what "governance" you have in mind beyond the spec process, >> but I don't believe we have sufficient commitments from people to keep >>

Re: Jini : Separate Governance and Implementation Projects

2006-08-14 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Bob Scheifler wrote: > Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: >> However, we do have a chance here to host the governance and spec >> process for JINI. >> >> Therefore, I'd like to propose that we create two podlings, one for JINI >> governance, and one for building the implementation and community around >> th

[Vote] Re: Abdera 0.1.0 Release Candidate

2006-08-14 Thread James M Snell
Ok, so we've addressed most of the issues raised in the note below and believe we are ready to move forward with 0.1.0. The new zips are available at http://people.apache.org/~jmsnell At your convenience, we'd appreciate it if y'all could review and weigh in on the release. Thanks! robert burrel

Re: IRC Channel?

2006-08-14 Thread Jim Jagielski
I am finding it somewhat unsettling that there is an increase in the amount of off-list "development" being done (via IRC) as well as a decreased awareness of WHY Email is the preferred method. Too many times I see things like "Oh, we discuss things on IRC and then bring it back to the list" as i

Re: Jini : Separate Governance and Implementation Projects

2006-08-14 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On 8/14/06, Bob Scheifler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm extremely reluctant to start out with two podlings. I'm not sure what "governance" you have in mind beyond the spec process, but I don't believe we have sufficient commitments from people to keep an equivalent of the existing Jini comm

Re: Jini : Separate Governance and Implementation Projects

2006-08-14 Thread Bob Scheifler
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > However, we do have a chance here to host the governance and spec > process for JINI. > > Therefore, I'd like to propose that we create two podlings, one for JINI > governance, and one for building the implementation and community around > the working code that has been

Re: Specifications as (part of) ASF projects (was RE: Too many licenses? Was: [vote] Accept Glasgow)

2006-08-14 Thread James Strachan
On 8/13/06, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Carl Trieloff wrote: > -> Is Apache in the business of writing and publishing specifications? <- > As long as Apache is not in the business of also creating > specifications, there will be by definition some separation > between code and sp

Re: Dynamic message selectors and message scheduling

2006-08-14 Thread James Strachan
On 8/13/06, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the thread titled "RE: [Proposal] Blaze", James Strachan wrote: > Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Totally unrelated ... JMS has the ability to create a message filter, but > > one of the limitations is that the filter is a