Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-07-02 Thread David N. Welton
lt to bring an idea accompanied by a community. The community bit usually happens when there is working code and people pick it up and start using it. -- David N. Welton - http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Linux, Open Source Consulting - http://www.dedasy

Re: Branding of Incubator projects

2006-06-27 Thread David N. Welton
mpler and clearer to not allow people to utilize the term Apache until the project is fully integrated into Apache. Starting to use the term 'Apache' also makes it more difficult for people to back out, which shouldn't actually be a "bad" thing, nor difficult for them o

'public name'

2006-06-10 Thread David N. Welton
question can't trust the ASF with their real name, then there isn't much to be done, or am I mistaken? Thanks, -- David N. Welton - http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Linux, Open Source Consulting - http://www.dedasys.com/ --

Re: ARI, Atom Reference Implementation [Proposal]

2006-05-23 Thread David N. Welton
ia.org/wiki/Proton -- David N. Welton - http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Linux, Open Source Consulting - http://www.dedasys.com/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Board report for OFBiz

2006-03-13 Thread David N. Welton
bizwiki.go-integral.com/Wiki.jsp?page=OFBizDevelopers For those interested in technical developments, Si Chen does a weekly roundup of interesting changes here: http://ofbiz-new.blogspot.com/ I'm happy with the progress so far. Questions? Comments? Thanks, -- David N. Welton - http:/

Re: issues about new contributors of an incubating project

2006-03-11 Thread David N. Welton
and did that, are there any scripts or further steps that need to happen to finalize it? It's not a rush - as Jacopo mentions, the plan is to try and figure out the LGPL code before they migrate to the ASF subversion... just to keep things cleaner. -- David N. Welton - http://www.dedasys.c

Re: OFBiz - next steps

2006-02-05 Thread David N. Welton
rojects/index.html > > Eg, start off with > > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/public/trunk/site-author/projects/incubation-status-template.xml Thanks to Jacopo, we have an initial cut at that, but neither he nor I has the tools to turn it into HTML (and I need to g

OFBiz - next steps

2006-02-04 Thread David N. Welton
he infrastructure team to create them, and then collaborate on moving over the existing subscriber list. Same question on dependencies as above. Anything else? Thankyou, -- David N. Welton - http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Linux, Open Source Consulting

Re: [VOTE] OFBiz Proposal

2006-01-30 Thread David N. Welton
J Aaron Farr wrote: > = OFBiz Proposal = So... this went out on the 25th... what's next? -- David N. Welton - http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Linux, Open Source Consulting - http://www.dedasys.com/ - To unsubscribe

Re: [VOTE] OFBiz Proposal

2006-01-25 Thread David N. Welton
J Aaron Farr wrote: > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OFBizProposal > > = OFBiz Proposal = > > This proposal outlines the creation of a new, top-level Open for > Business (OFBiz) project within the Apache Software Foundation. +1 (non-binding) from me as well, just for the re

Re: [VOTE] OFBiz Proposal

2006-01-25 Thread David N. Welton
Roy T. Fielding wrote: >> * David N. Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> * Yoav Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> * J Aaron Farr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Where are the mentors? Are the champions also going to mentor > the project? According to t

Re: public perceptions

2006-01-25 Thread David N. Welton
Noel J. Bergman wrote: > David N. Welton wrote: No I didn't - the comment below was Raphael Luta's - probably evident because of the double layer of quoting, but still... >>>I would agree with this if there was no immediate percieved benefit >>>when you are in In

public perceptions

2006-01-24 Thread David N. Welton
o are not looking carefully as "project now associated with apache.org". This is a theory of mine that seems to be born out by talking with people, but it's not really an exact science. What say the marketing folks? -- David N. Welton - http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Linux, Open

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-23 Thread David N. Welton
ty, there are some tricky problems to solve in some of the areas that OFBiz touches on. -- David N. Welton - http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Linux, Open Source Consulting - http://www.dedasys.com/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL P

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-22 Thread David N. Welton
eve that > a good ASF vote isn't called to make a decision; it is called to ratify one. Alright - so, in terms of procedure, what happens next and who can make it happen? The Incubator PMC votes on accepting the project? I think we're ready for that, unless there are further questions.

Re: (in)appropriate wiki use

2006-01-18 Thread David N. Welton
doing the commits - kind of takes the point out of it, doesn't it? If subversion is just the place where the final version gets dumped, that's ok, but: It needs documenting. In any case, the proposal has been made, I think it's time that it stand or fall on its own

What format should proposals be in. (OFBiz proposal)

2006-01-18 Thread David N. Welton
tor very long. I'm just trying to figure out what sort of format to use since that is not in the documentation. -- David N. Welton - http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Linux, Open Source Consulting - http://www.dedasys.com/ - T

Re: (in)appropriate wiki use

2006-01-18 Thread David N. Welton
ng curve for people not yet used to working so extensively with > centralized version control, but its not neccessarily bad -- we want people > to learn that anyway. Keep in mind that with the Incubator, perhaps only one or two people might already have access to subversion. -- David

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-18 Thread David N. Welton
to leave this sort of thing, so I wiki-ized it. David (Jones) - can you add J. Aaron Farr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> as a mentor to the document, and change the sponsor to the Incubator PMC? -- David N. Welton - http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Li

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-16 Thread David N. Welton
David N. Welton wrote: > I guess it should be placed on the wiki? I'll do that later today if no > one else beats me to it. Here we go: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OFBizProposal I changed the proposed sponsor to the Incubator PMC, as that's apparently the done thing. C

[jira] Commented: (INCUBATOR-12) Process_Description.html navigation improvement

2006-01-16 Thread David N. Welton (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-12?page=comments#action_12362832 ] David N. Welton commented on INCUBATOR-12: -- I wouldn't get carried away reworking the whole thing. Just provide a link to where the mailing lists are... C

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-16 Thread David N. Welton
Any other questions or comments on this for now? I guess it should be placed on the wiki? I'll do that later today if no one else beats me to it. Ciao, -- David N. Welton - http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Linux, Open Source Consulting - http://www.dedasy

[jira] Commented: (INCUBATOR-10) Incubation_Policy.html should specify to use the Incubator PMC

2006-01-16 Thread David N. Welton (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-10?page=comments#action_12362831 ] David N. Welton commented on INCUBATOR-10: -- I would put TLP's as the most likely sponsor *if a project would fit*, then the incubator PMC, then the board,

[jira] Commented: (INCUBATOR-12) Process_Description.html navigation improvement

2006-01-14 Thread David N. Welton (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-12?page=comments#action_12362720 ] David N. Welton commented on INCUBATOR-12: -- Yes - personally I would put the whole 'Incubation' section above 'About', because it con

Incubator PMC vs Board as sponsor (Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF)

2006-01-13 Thread David N. Welton
dealt with incubation before, it doesn't give you a sense for which one is the best to use. If someone grants me the relevant SVN karma and points me to the right checkout url, I will fix this and the other two bugs I filed as well. -- David N. Welton - ht

Re: Proposal for OFBiz to Join the ASF

2006-01-12 Thread David N. Welton
me degree, as well. Once upon a time, people sold web servers, and httpd stepped on their toes. And for what it's worth, the problems that OFBiz attempts to solve are hard, and there is a lot of room for competitors - both those that build other systems as well as those that build on t

[jira] Created: (INCUBATOR-12) Process_Description.html navigation improvement

2006-01-07 Thread David N. Welton (JIRA)
Process_Description.html navigation improvement --- Key: INCUBATOR-12 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-12 Project: Incubator Type: Improvement Reporter: David N. Welton Priority: Minor http

[jira] Created: (INCUBATOR-11) 'exitting' on Incubation_Policy.html

2006-01-07 Thread David N. Welton (JIRA)
'exitting' on Incubation_Policy.html Key: INCUBATOR-11 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-11 Project: Incubator Type: Bug Reporter: David N. Welton Priority: Trivial http://incubator.

[jira] Created: (INCUBATOR-10) Incubation_Policy.html should specify to use the Incubator PMC

2006-01-07 Thread David N. Welton (JIRA)
Incubation_Policy.html should specify to use the Incubator PMC -- Key: INCUBATOR-10 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-10 Project: Incubator Type: Improvement Reporter: David N. Welton

Incubator - who should apply?

2005-09-23 Thread David N. Welton
hould look like over time would be useful. If it's just your personal project that no one is ever going to find too interesting, perhaps it's not right for the ASF. Anyway, just a thought that crossed my mind... Ciao, -- David N. Welton - http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Linux, Op