Re: [VOTE:PMC] Proposal for Lenya as a Cocoon subproject

2003-02-25 Thread Michael Melhem
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:01:01AM +0100, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > > I'm asking the Cocoon PMC to vote for the inclusion of the below > proposed project named Lenya (ex wyona.org) as a Cocoon subproject. > > This vote will take place on cocoon-dev where the Cocoon PMC lives. > I'm CCing the i

Re: [VOTE:PMC] Proposal for Lenya as a Cocoon subproject

2003-02-25 Thread Pier Fumagalli
On 24/2/03 23:42, "Nicola Ken Barozzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Pier Fumagalli wrote, On 25/02/2003 0.18: >> On 24/2/03 23:01, "Nicola Ken Barozzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> I'm asking the Cocoon PMC to vote for the inclusion of the below >>> proposed project named Lenya (ex wy

Re: [VOTE:PMC] Proposal for Lenya as a Cocoon subproject

2003-02-25 Thread Pier Fumagalli
On 24/2/03 23:01, "Nicola Ken Barozzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm asking the Cocoon PMC to vote for the inclusion of the below > proposed project named Lenya (ex wyona.org) as a Cocoon subproject. > > This vote will take place on cocoon-dev where the Cocoon PMC lives. > I'm CCing the inc

Re: [VOTE:PMC] Proposal for Lenya as a Cocoon subproject

2003-02-25 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Giacomo Pati wrote: +1 Giacomo Giacomo, thanks for taking the time to edit your email to avoid wasting bandwidth. I'm a pain, I know. Imagine how I much more I would be if I were the one paying for the bandwidth :) -- Stefano Mazzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Plura

Re: [VOTE:PMC] Proposal for Lenya as a Cocoon subproject

2003-02-25 Thread Giacomo Pati
I'm CCing the incubator list just to notify that we're starting this > vote. When finished, I'll post there the results. > > Cocoon PMC members, please state your votes. > > Here's mine: +1 > > > Original Message > Subject: Prop

Re: [VOTE:PMC] Proposal for Lenya as a Cocoon subproject

2003-02-25 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Steven Noels wrote, On 25/02/2003 14.08: Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Steven Noels wrote, On 25/02/2003 10.28: Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: As stated before, I'm sponsoring the proposal, so here's my +1. OTOH, who or what will trigger/endorse the transition from incubation to proper subproject? Coco

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-25 Thread Steven Noels
Michael Wechner wrote: And certainly any help is very welcome, especially on architecture, as long as it doesn't kill us ;-) We _don't_ want to kill the Lenya community. One of my criteria for leaving incubation and becoming a proper Cocoon subproject however would be a thriving community. This

Re: [VOTE:PMC] Proposal for Lenya as a Cocoon subproject

2003-02-25 Thread Steven Noels
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Steven Noels wrote, On 25/02/2003 10.28: Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: As stated before, I'm sponsoring the proposal, so here's my +1. OTOH, who or what will trigger/endorse the transition from incubation to proper subproject? Cocoon PMC or Incubation PMC? Incubation PM

Re: [VOTE:PMC] Proposal for Lenya as a Cocoon subproject

2003-02-25 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Steven Noels wrote, On 25/02/2003 10.28: Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: As stated before, I'm sponsoring the proposal, so here's my +1. OTOH, who or what will trigger/endorse the transition from incubation to proper subproject? Cocoon PMC or Incubation PMC? Incubation PMC. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi

Re: [VOTE:PMC] Proposal for Lenya as a Cocoon subproject

2003-02-25 Thread Steven Noels
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: As stated before, I'm sponsoring the proposal, so here's my +1. OTOH, who or what will trigger/endorse the transition from incubation to proper subproject? Cocoon PMC or Incubation PMC? -- Steven Noelshttp://outerthought.org/ Outerthought -

Re: [VOTE:PMC] Proposal for Lenya as a Cocoon subproject

2003-02-24 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Pier Fumagalli wrote, On 25/02/2003 0.18: On 24/2/03 23:01, "Nicola Ken Barozzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm asking the Cocoon PMC to vote for the inclusion of the below proposed project named Lenya (ex wyona.org) as a Cocoon subproject. This vote will take place on cocoon-dev where the Cocoon

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-24 Thread Michael Wechner
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Gregor J. Rothfuss wrote, On 24/02/2003 22.16: ... what is the next step for us, besides soliciting more comments on the proposal? i guess at some point there will be a vote in the cocoon pmc? If the project wants to be a subproject of the cocoon.apache.org project it

[VOTE:PMC] Proposal for Lenya as a Cocoon subproject

2003-02-24 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
finished, I'll post there the results. Cocoon PMC members, please state your votes. Here's mine: +1 Original Message -------- Subject: Proposal for Lenya Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:01:16 +0100 From: Michael Wechner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-24 Thread Gregor J. Rothfuss
> From my experience, I would encourage you to start as a Cocoon > subproject, and ask to be a Top Level Project later. This will make it > easier and faster to get started and ease the burden of the incubation :-) +1 it is a bit early for us to have top-level ambitions if i may say so :) we wo

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-24 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Gregor J. Rothfuss wrote, On 24/02/2003 22.16: ... what is the next step for us, besides soliciting more comments on the proposal? i guess at some point there will be a vote in the cocoon pmc? If the project wants to be a subproject of the cocoon.apache.org project it can just get a vote over ther

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-24 Thread Gregor J. Rothfuss
> > Just a few thoughts: I spent this morning browsing the Lenya code from > > CVS and so far I have mixed feelings about the project. Basically I'm > > unable to see an "architecture" in the whole codebase, it seems to me > > more a set of Cocoon components glued together around specific project >

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-24 Thread Steven Noels
Gianugo Rabellino wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Anybody else with comments, either positive or negative? Just a few thoughts: I spent this morning browsing the Lenya code from CVS and so far I have mixed feelings about the project. Basically I'm unable to see an "architecture" in the whole cod

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-24 Thread Gianugo Rabellino
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Anybody else with comments, either positive or negative? Just a few thoughts: I spent this morning browsing the Lenya code from CVS and so far I have mixed feelings about the project. Basically I'm unable to see an "architecture" in the whole codebase, it seems to me more

AW: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-23 Thread Scherler, Thorsten
Hello Steven, * reviewing the archived commit messages, I wonder whether the proposed list of initial committers reflects reality, or that the list has been expanded so that we won't have the suspicion it is mainly one company/group working on the codebase (as is the case with xreporter.cocoon

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-22 Thread Steven Noels
Gregor J. Rothfuss wrote: i think forrest may turn out to be a wonderful "immediate value" publication for lenya. we have been looking at ways to lower the entry barriers into lenya, and having a well-supported publication that works out of the box would be very sweet. Hm. This is the kind of dicu

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-22 Thread Gregor J. Rothfuss
"Jeff Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > FWIW, here's my +1 for Incubatorship. I see Lenya as tackling all the > problems that Forrest would eventually encounter, if we ignored the > blatant scope creep. It would be very cool if Lenya and Forrest were > eventual

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-22 Thread Gregor J. Rothfuss
"Jeff Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > FWIW, here's my +1 for Incubatorship. I see Lenya as tackling all the > problems that Forrest would eventually encounter, if we ignored the > blatant scope creep. It would be very cool if Lenya and Forrest were > eventual

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-22 Thread Gregor J. Rothfuss
"Steven Noels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote ... > I hope some of my points are not considered FUD but genuine concerns. I > didn't happen to extensively comment on the other proposals going > through incubation lately, since they weren't in the domain I'm working > in, or have a particular interest in

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-22 Thread Michael Wechner
Andreas Kuckartz wrote: Sure thing. Since Lenya does publishing too, what is the future of Forrest in your scenario? To be honest, I am not very familiar with Forrest yet. But from out of the belly I would characterize Forrest as a specific publication type, with an information architecture

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-22 Thread Michael Wechner
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Paul Hammant wrote, On 21/02/2003 8.16: Michael, Folks, Dear Incubator List [...] My take (not being on the incubator PMC) is that I'd like to see the code. I want to see how componentized it is - I might like to use some of the comps outside of Lenya or outside of

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-22 Thread Michael Wechner
Steven Noels wrote: Andreas Kuckartz wrote: You seem to be concerned that the software is *used* in productive environments. Do software developers who want to change the code have to take that into account? Yes, certainly they should do that. Is that an argument against the adoption of the softw

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-22 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Steven Noels wrote: Well, I can't be sure either. This is why we are going thru incubation: it should be a period to estimate *IF* this codebase with these people is the right seed for a potential healthy community. If now, well, at least we tried. Yeah. Since Incubation in itself is pretty new

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-22 Thread Steven Noels
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: [extensive snipage] Steven Noels wrote: You know how I run communities and what are the things I value. Michael, who is the technical leader, resonates with my vision a lot and has been playing very nicely with Cocoon. Please, I don't see why you need to defend Michae

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-21 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Paul Hammant wrote, On 21/02/2003 8.16: Michael, Folks, Dear Incubator List [...] My take (not being on the incubator PMC) is that I'd like to see the code. I want to see how componentized it is - I might like to use some of the comps outside of Lenya or outside of Cocoon itself - I'm always

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-21 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Steven Noels wrote: My main concern is the fact that Lenya does not come only with a community, but also with a code base. That code base is in use already at a selected number of commercial installations (which is good, of course). I hope to be proven wrong, yet I fear the existing codebase is

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-21 Thread Steven Noels
Andreas Kuckartz wrote: You seem to be concerned that the software is *used* in productive environments. Do software developers who want to change the code have to take that into account? Yes, certainly they should do that. Is that an argument against the adoption of the software? No, quite the op

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-20 Thread Andreas Kuckartz
> My main concern is the fact that Lenya does not come only with a > community, but also with a code base. That code base is in use already > at a selected number of commercial installations (which is good, of > course). I hope to be proven wrong, yet I fear the existing codebase is > intimately li

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-20 Thread Paul Hammant
Michael, Folks, Dear Incubator List [...] My take (not being on the incubator PMC) is that I'd like to see the code. I want to see how componentized it is - I might like to use some of the comps outside of Lenya or outside of Cocoon itself - I'm always excited by products that have internal

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-20 Thread Jeff Turner
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 04:01:16PM +0100, Michael Wechner wrote: > Dear Incubator List > > Here's our proposal for _Lenya_ (plz see below), a Content Management > System based on Cocoon. FWIW, here's my +1 for Incubatorship. I see Lenya as tackling all the problems that Forrest would eventually

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-20 Thread Michael Wechner
Steven Noels wrote: Michael Wechner wrote: Dear Incubator List Here's our proposal for _Lenya_ (plz see below), a Content Management System based on Cocoon. The proposal can also be viewed as HTML at: [cc'ed to cocoon-dev where Cocoon PMC lives, which will ultimatelly decide whether Lenya can

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-20 Thread Steven Noels
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Steven Noels wrote: I agree with your general assumption that a content management system is pure marketing bullshit since there is no one size that fits all. That's more or less what I'm saying, yes. In fact, in my personal view, Lenya is an effort to build a community

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-20 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Matt Sergeant wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Steven Noels wrote: * A sh*tload of (even Cocoon-based) (half-baked) CMS solutions exist already, which might or might not be willing to join ASF in the future. What will happen if Lenya (nice name BTW) comes and claims that area? Will it be the reference

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-20 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Steven Noels wrote: Michael Wechner wrote: Dear Incubator List Here's our proposal for _Lenya_ (plz see below), a Content Management System based on Cocoon. The proposal can also be viewed as HTML at: [cc'ed to cocoon-dev where Cocoon PMC lives, which will ultimatelly decide whether Lenya can

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-20 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Steven Noels wrote, On 20/02/2003 13.36: Michael Wechner wrote: Dear Incubator List Here's our proposal for _Lenya_ (plz see below), a Content Management System based on Cocoon. The proposal can also be viewed as HTML at: [cc'ed to cocoon-dev where Cocoon PMC lives, which will ultimatelly

Re: Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-20 Thread Steven Noels
Michael Wechner wrote: Dear Incubator List Here's our proposal for _Lenya_ (plz see below), a Content Management System based on Cocoon. The proposal can also be viewed as HTML at: [cc'ed to cocoon-dev where Cocoon PMC lives, which will ultimatelly decide whether Lenya can become a Cocoon sub-p

Proposal for Lenya

2003-02-19 Thread Michael Wechner
a.org/roadmap.html Thanks Michael ----- Proposal for Lenya, A Cocoon Subproject (via Incubator) Date: 14 February 2003 Authors: Gregor J. Rothfuss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Michael H. Wechner ([EMAIL PROT