Re: [configuration] CombinedConfiguration.getSource()

2008-11-08 Thread Ralph Goers
Oliver Heger wrote: The getSource() method was added on behalf of CONFIGURATION-215 [1]. The original request was a bit adapted to come to a more generic solution. IIRC the usage scenario was that you have multiple child configurations with different name spaces and want to uniquely ident

Re: [jelly] Is jelly still in development vs. Open/Federated Commons

2008-11-08 Thread Russel Winder
On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 04:35 +, John Spackman wrote: [ . . . ] > I am prepared to upgrade Jelly to Maven2 (not that I know much about what > that involves, yet) and to improve the website but I have to be confident > that the changes will happen quickly and easily, and that the project will >

Re: Blogging on Commons

2008-11-08 Thread Martin Cooper
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Jochen Wiedmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For example, one of the reasons people don't want to bring things to > Commons > > any more is because they have to buy in to the entire Commo

Re: [jelly] Is jelly still in development vs. Open/Federated Commons

2008-11-08 Thread John Spackman
Hi Paul, I agree that the website needs some changes although I had thought that this was largely for broken links and for a consistent left-hand side menu; updating the documentation for the taglibs is a pretty herculean task, not least because in order to document a taglib you have to fully

Re: [jelly] Is jelly still in development

2008-11-08 Thread Paul Libbrecht
Hello John, I think it would be lovely to start some maintenance and to get an extra committer aboard. The procedure to become so, however, really starts with the "other methods" (mailing-list and jira in particular). The focus on the core of jira is rather happy. I am more than happy to re

Re: Blogging on Commons

2008-11-08 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example, one of the reasons people don't want to bring things to Commons > any more is because they have to buy in to the entire Commons enchilada. > Consistent build systems, consistent web sites, consistent release cr

Re: Blogging on Commons

2008-11-08 Thread Martin Cooper
Interesting post. Allow me to do some thinking out loud of my own. ;-) IMHO, in its earlier days, Commons worked well in that quite a few projects did "donate" parts of their code bases to Commons, thus seeding it and enhancing the commonality between those projects and promoting sharing beyond th

Re: [configuration] CombinedConfiguration.getSource()

2008-11-08 Thread Oliver Heger
ralph.goers @dslextreme.com schrieb: I don't understand why getSource throws an Exception when a property can be found in multiple configurations. If the property is not a list or if escaping is disabled then the value from the first Configuration the key is found in will be used. Shouldn't an Ex

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2008-11-08 Thread Gump
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Re: [jelly] Is jelly still in development

2008-11-08 Thread John Spackman
Hi, We're still actively using Jelly and while the usefulness of some of the extension modules may be debatable (and definitely without wishing to enter into a debate of whether it is appropriate to have "executable" data), as a core tool Jelly has allowed us to rapidly produce pluggable langu