Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Aries incubator for Enterprise OSGi

2009-09-01 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Kevan Miller wrote: > > It then becomes a question of, assuming successful incubation, where > does the community graduate to? TLP, Felix subproject(s), or elsewhere. And remember that Felix charter is framed in terms of "the OSGi Service Platform and other software that is associated with or rel

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Aries incubator for Enterprise OSGi

2009-09-01 Thread Kevan Miller
On Sep 1, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Richard S. Hall wrote: On 9/1/09 13:59, Martin Cooper wrote: On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Richard S. Hall wrote: I'm not sure I understand the issue here. Whether Aries becomes its own TLP, or a sub-project of Felix or some other TLP, isn't relevant until th

Re: Help reviewing PhotArk podling release

2009-09-01 Thread Luciano Resende
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:57 PM, sebb wrote: > On 31/08/2009, Luciano Resende wrote: >> Thanks for all the reviews and feedback for the PhotArk RC2. I have >>  fixed all the severe and blocking issues and have produced a new RC... >> >>  Please follow the link below for the new RC details : >> >>  

Re: Location of Incubator releases

2009-09-01 Thread sebb
On 02/09/2009, Francis De Brabandere wrote: > ok, done > > so we should never point to archive.apache.org from the site You can point to archive.apache.org for archived releases, see for example: http://tomcat.apache.org/ Download/Archives or http://commons.apache.org/downloads/download_lang.

Re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db version 2.0.5-incubating (take 2)

2009-09-01 Thread Francis De Brabandere
ok, my bad, you can just define the tag when performing the release using maven, it does not have to be the same as the version. So you can set the version to 2.0.5-incubating and the tag to 2.0.5-incubating-rc1. So when the release proceeds we can just copy over that last rc to the final ant promo

Re: Location of Incubator releases

2009-09-01 Thread Francis De Brabandere
ok, done so we should never point to archive.apache.org from the site Thanks, Francis On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:53 AM, sebb wrote: > On 01/09/2009, Francis De Brabandere wrote: >> I fixed the empire-db site download links. (might take a few hours for >>  the change to be propagated) >> >> http:

Re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db version 2.0.5-incubating (take 2)

2009-09-01 Thread sebb
On 01/09/2009, Francis De Brabandere wrote: > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:46 PM, sebb wrote: > >> > >> > The new release candidate uses exactly the same name for the artifacts > >> > and the SVN tag. > >> > > >> > This makes it very difficult to determine later what was actually > voted on.

Re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db version 2.0.5-incubating (take 2)

2009-09-01 Thread Francis De Brabandere
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:46 PM, sebb wrote: >> >>  > The new release candidate uses exactly the same name for the artifacts >>  > and the SVN tag. >>  > >>  > This makes it very difficult to determine later what was actually voted >> on. >> >> >> Hmm, I don't see how this can be changed when using

Re: Help reviewing PhotArk podling release

2009-09-01 Thread sebb
On 31/08/2009, Luciano Resende wrote: > Thanks for all the reviews and feedback for the PhotArk RC2. I have > fixed all the severe and blocking issues and have produced a new RC... > > Please follow the link below for the new RC details : > > http://www.mail-archive.com/photark-...@incubator.ap

Re: Location of Incubator releases

2009-09-01 Thread sebb
On 01/09/2009, Francis De Brabandere wrote: > I fixed the empire-db site download links. (might take a few hours for > the change to be propagated) > > http://incubator.apache.org/empire-db/downloads/downloads.htm > > > Still one problem left, the md5 and sha files don't seem to have been > prop

Re: Location of Incubator releases

2009-09-01 Thread Francis De Brabandere
I fixed the empire-db site download links. (might take a few hours for the change to be propagated) http://incubator.apache.org/empire-db/downloads/downloads.htm Still one problem left, the md5 and sha files don't seem to have been propagated to the mirrors so I had to point to archive.apache.org

Re: Location of Incubator releases

2009-09-01 Thread Francis De Brabandere
the files are there, it seems the site is pointing to the wrong files http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/empire-db On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Martijn Dashorst wrote: > The Incubator release guide provides guidance: > > > Uploading Artifacts > > The distribution upload location (ww

Re: Location of Incubator releases

2009-09-01 Thread Martijn Dashorst
The Incubator release guide provides guidance: Uploading Artifacts The distribution upload location (www.apache.org/dist) for all Apache projects is the /www/www.apache.org/dist directory on people.apache.org. Each project (including the Incubator) owns a directory within dist. The podl

Re: Location of Incubator releases

2009-09-01 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, 2009/9/1 sebb : > Just noticed that (some) Incubator releases are being made from > personal directories on people (minotaur). > > That does not seem right to me, but perhaps I'm being too picky? It's not right. Both Infra policy [1] and Incubator policy [2] clearly say that releases must be

Re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db version 2.0.5-incubating (take 2)

2009-09-01 Thread Francis De Brabandere
Sebb, So to sum up, do we still have blocking issues left? I can brew an other release to fix a few more of those minor issues (they are fixed in trunk) but I don't know how to do it with a different tag/version. Francis On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:00 PM, sebb wrote: > On 01/09/2009, Francis De Bra

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Aries incubator for Enterprise OSGi

2009-09-01 Thread Marcel Offermans
On Sep 1, 2009, at 16:38 , Jeremy Hughes wrote: It is a goal of the Aries project to provide a natural home for open source implementations of current and future OSGi EEG specifications, including the opportunity for the collaborative development of compliance tests, and an environment to demons

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Aries incubator for Enterprise OSGi

2009-09-01 Thread Marcel Offermans
On Sep 1, 2009, at 17:45 , Guillaume Nodet wrote: ACE is another podling related to OSGi and AFAIK it implements the DeploymentAdmin OSGi spec. Just to clear up any misconceptions: ACE does not implement the DeploymentAdmin spec. That was donated to Felix and ACE uses it. ACE is an applic

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Aries incubator for Enterprise OSGi

2009-09-01 Thread Richard S. Hall
How is it that so many people already use Felix subprojects on other frameworks if there isn't already some understanding on this already? Just because some people perceive it to not be that way, doesn't mean we should throw the baby out with the bathwater. It is a poor argument. Just starting

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Aries incubator for Enterprise OSGi

2009-09-01 Thread Niclas Hedhman
Uhhh... So you intend to re-educate the 'masses' in two ways; 1. "NO, NO, NO, Felix is not an OSGi framework, it is a group of OSGi projects... Apache Foo is an OSGi framework..." 2. "NO, NO, NO, Felix bundles works on other things than Felix, I mean the Apache Foo..." Or did I misunderstand som

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Aries incubator for Enterprise OSGi

2009-09-01 Thread Richard S. Hall
On 9/1/09 13:59, Martin Cooper wrote: On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Richard S. Hall wrote: I'm not sure I understand the issue here. Whether Aries becomes its own TLP, or a sub-project of Felix or some other TLP, isn't relevant until the project is ready to exit incubation. Why does it warra

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Aries incubator for Enterprise OSGi

2009-09-01 Thread Martin Cooper
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Richard S. Hall wrote: I'm not sure I understand the issue here. Whether Aries becomes its own TLP, or a sub-project of Felix or some other TLP, isn't relevant until the project is ready to exit incubation. Why does it warrant such apparently intense discussion bef

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Aries incubator for Enterprise OSGi

2009-09-01 Thread Richard S. Hall
As I said on d...@felix and will repeat here: I don't agree about renaming the [Felix] TLP. There are so many examples of similar situations. I cannot believe we are truly in a unique situation here: * "Apache" typically means the HTTP Server project, but it also refers to the f

Re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db version 2.0.5-incubating (take 2)

2009-09-01 Thread sebb
On 01/09/2009, Francis De Brabandere wrote: > > Also, just noticed that there is another version of the tutorial in > > Word format (tutorial.doc). > > > > This is stored in SVN alongside tutorial.pdf, but for some reason in > > the archive the doc file is stored in one of the subdirectories,

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Aries incubator for Enterprise OSGi

2009-09-01 Thread Niclas Hedhman
I'm not subscribing to d...@felix.a.o at the moment, but would still like to hear the outcome of this... Richard, we (you and I at least) have discussed this more than once in the past and I totally agree with Guillaume that the perception is there, it is everything and near impossible to change.

Re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db version 2.0.5-incubating (take 2)

2009-09-01 Thread Francis De Brabandere
> Also, just noticed that there is another version of the tutorial in > Word format (tutorial.doc). > > This is stored in SVN alongside tutorial.pdf, but for some reason in > the archive the doc file is stored in one of the subdirectories, viz: > src/empire-db-examples. Not sure why one would need

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Aries incubator for Enterprise OSGi

2009-09-01 Thread Richard S. Hall
On 9/1/09 12:14, Guillaume Nodet wrote: On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 18:06, Richard S. Hall wrote: Creating another project to host OSGi spec implementations seems unnecessary. And, from my point of view, only serves to foster this mentality that Felix projects are framework specific. I do not b

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Aries incubator for Enterprise OSGi

2009-09-01 Thread Guillaume Nodet
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 18:06, Richard S. Hall wrote: > > Creating another project to host OSGi spec implementations seems > unnecessary. And, from my point of view, only serves to foster this > mentality that Felix projects are framework specific. I do not buy your > argument that we cannot educa

Re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db version 2.0.5-incubating (take 2)

2009-09-01 Thread sebb
On 31/08/2009, Francis De Brabandere wrote: > Hi, > > The Empire-db community has completed working on Release 2.0.5 and is > now looking for approval of the IPMC to publish the release. > So far the release has been approved by Empire-db committers, but due > to vacation time and other circum

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Aries incubator for Enterprise OSGi

2009-09-01 Thread Richard S. Hall
I don't think we disagree in principle, but in approach. Apache Felix was charted to host Apache licensed implementations of OSGi specifications. So, what makes sense to me is: 1. Having Apache community members work on standard spec implementations at Apache Felix. 2. Then if those su

re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db version 2.0.5-incubating (take 2)

2009-09-01 Thread Rainer Döbele
Francis I think we can delete that "old" directory tree in the trunk. Rainer Francis De Brabandere wrote: > Re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db version 2.0.5-incubating (take 2) > > [inline reply] > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:14 PM, sebb wrote: > > > The new release candidate uses exactly the same n

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Aries incubator for Enterprise OSGi

2009-09-01 Thread Ian Robinson
The objective is to create a community who focus is to enable applications to use both OSGi and Java EE capabilities, independent of either a specific OSGi f/w or a specific enterprise runtime. Given the Java enterprise focus of Geronimo, we could have proposed a sub-project there but considere

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Aries incubator for Enterprise OSGi

2009-09-01 Thread James Strachan
2009/9/1 Guillaume Nodet : > Not sure how to articulate my thoughts here. > > First, it's not about competing against Felix, though you'll find in the ASF > multiple competing products (Axis vs CXF to mention only this one) and the > ASF has never stated as a goal that it would provide a coherent o

Re: Location of Incubator releases

2009-09-01 Thread Francis De Brabandere
I suppose those should be available on the apache mirrors instead? How do we get them there? Francis On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:27 PM, sebb wrote: > Just noticed that (some) Incubator releases are being made from > personal directories on people (minotaur). > > That does not seem right to me, but p

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Aries incubator for Enterprise OSGi

2009-09-01 Thread James Strachan
2009/9/1 Richard S. Hall : > The Apache Felix project, since its inception, has been intended to host > implementations of the OSGi specifications, which includes both the > framework as well as other standard services. A framework implementation was > just one of the goals. > > This proposal seems

Re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db version 2.0.5-incubating (take 2)

2009-09-01 Thread sebb
On 01/09/2009, Francis De Brabandere wrote: > [inline reply] > > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:14 PM, sebb wrote: > > > The new release candidate uses exactly the same name for the artifacts > > and the SVN tag. > > > > This makes it very difficult to determine later what was actually voted on.

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Aries incubator for Enterprise OSGi

2009-09-01 Thread Guillaume Nodet
Not sure how to articulate my thoughts here. First, it's not about competing against Felix, though you'll find in the ASF multiple competing products (Axis vs CXF to mention only this one) and the ASF has never stated as a goal that it would provide a coherent offer or anything like this. The pro

Re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db version 2.0.5-incubating (take 2)

2009-09-01 Thread Francis De Brabandere
[inline reply] On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:14 PM, sebb wrote: > The new release candidate uses exactly the same name for the artifacts > and the SVN tag. > > This makes it very difficult to determine later what was actually voted on. Hmm, I don't see how this can be changed when using nexus, the Id

Location of Incubator releases

2009-09-01 Thread sebb
Just noticed that (some) Incubator releases are being made from personal directories on people (minotaur). That does not seem right to me, but perhaps I'm being too picky? Example: http://incubator.apache.org/empire-db/downloads/downloads.htm

Re: [VOTE] Release Empire-db version 2.0.5-incubating (take 2)

2009-09-01 Thread sebb
On 31/08/2009, Francis De Brabandere wrote: > Hi, > > The Empire-db community has completed working on Release 2.0.5 and is > now looking for approval of the IPMC to publish the release. > So far the release has been approved by Empire-db committers, but due > to vacation time and other circum

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Aries incubator for Enterprise OSGi

2009-09-01 Thread Richard S. Hall
The Apache Felix project, since its inception, has been intended to host implementations of the OSGi specifications, which includes both the framework as well as other standard services. A framework implementation was just one of the goals. This proposal seems to be saying a separate project i

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Aries incubator for Enterprise OSGi

2009-09-01 Thread Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Thanks Guillaume, understood. Regards JB Guillaume Nodet wrote: Karaf is a runtime, which means it includes the OSGi framework and you can install it and start it, providing a number of additional features compared to a plain OSGi framework. The goal of Aries is not to provide such a runtime, b

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Aries incubator for Enterprise OSGi

2009-09-01 Thread Guillaume Nodet
Karaf is a runtime, which means it includes the OSGi framework and you can install it and start it, providing a number of additional features compared to a plain OSGi framework. The goal of Aries is not to provide such a runtime, but rather provide components that can be installed into different ru

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Aries incubator for Enterprise OSGi

2009-09-01 Thread Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Hi Jeremy, could you spot the differences with Apache Felix/Karaf and the SMX OBR ? Thanks, Regards JB Jeremy Hughes wrote: Hi, we would like to propose a new incubator podling called Aries. http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AriesProposal Here is a quick summary of the proposal The Aries pro

[PROPOSAL] Apache Aries incubator for Enterprise OSGi

2009-09-01 Thread Jeremy Hughes
Hi, we would like to propose a new incubator podling called Aries. http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AriesProposal Here is a quick summary of the proposal The Aries project will deliver a set of pluggable Java components enabling an enterprise OSGi application programming model. This includes imp