Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-12 Thread Benedikt Ritter
2013/7/8 Thomas Neidhart > On 07/04/2013 10:20 PM, Benedikt Ritter wrote: > > Hi, > > > > we had this discussion lately where we talked about attracting new > > contributors for commons [1]. Over the past few days I've been thinking > > about this topic again and I've come to the conclusion that

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-12 Thread Julien Aymé
Hello, it would also be nice to see in once glance what is the current latest version of each component. For example, in the current listing of proper components, a column 'Latest version' would be very nice, as well as a short summary of latest released components in the commons home page. My 2

Re: Extensibility of CM classes

2013-07-12 Thread Ajo Fod
I wonder what conditions justify the use of protected / public fields? I can see how protected fields make more sense for a single user code because it is easier to not have all those getter/setter methods. But perhaps for an API with a wide audience, the commitment of providing a field is a big

OGNL new component

2013-07-12 Thread Alessandro Accardo
Hi all ognl devs, I'm writing to you because I developed an extra component for OGNL for which I wanted you to know about. Unfortunately I wasn't able to take this code off of ognl library so I had to include OGNL in my code and modify some classes (mainly a non-intrusive change to OgnlRuntime.jav

Re: Extensibility of CM classes

2013-07-12 Thread sebb
On 12 July 2013 15:39, Ajo Fod wrote: > I wonder what conditions justify the use of protected / public fields? > > I can see how protected fields make more sense for a single user code > because it is easier to not have all those getter/setter methods. But > perhaps for an API with a wide audien

Re: Extensibility of CM classes

2013-07-12 Thread Ajo Fod
I like the last few arguments about multi threaded environments. That makes the getter/setter paradigm desirable even in single user environments. Thanks for the thoughtful arguments. On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 8:01 AM, sebb wrote: > On 12 July 2013 15:39, Ajo Fod wrote: > > I wonder what condi

Re: OGNL new component

2013-07-12 Thread Maurizio Cucchiara
Ciao Alessandro, thanks for your interest for OGNL and for letting us know about your component. Just a couple of question: Why did you need to copy the whole code of OGNL and just not fork it? It could be hard to recognize your changes. Can you point us a test/code example that illustrates how yo

Re: Extensibility of CM classes

2013-07-12 Thread Gilles
On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:01:30 +0100, sebb wrote: On 12 July 2013 15:39, Ajo Fod wrote: I wonder what conditions justify the use of protected / public fields? I can see how protected fields make more sense for a single user code because it is easier to not have all those getter/setter method

Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations

2013-07-12 Thread Jonas Sprenger
> 1. I'd like to make it easier for users to identify which components may be > of interest for them. One way to accomplish this would be to introduce > categories like they did in the wikipedia article about commons [1] +1 Would be way easier to find tickets to start with. > [1] http://en.wiki