Re: low gsoc popularity this year?

2011-04-06 Thread Sean Owen
For Mahout, I am not mentoring this year because none of the three GSoC projects I have mentored have come close to succeeding. (I am assured it's not my fault.) Of the 5 Mahout mentored last year, I can only point to 1 that was usefully successful. Is anyone else's historical success rate low or

Re: PoolingDataSource: java.sql.SQLException: Connection is closed

2010-11-18 Thread Sean Owen
The pool is not being able to check whether a connection is still usable before using it. I've never used PostgreSQL myself, but, for MySQL, I've always specified a query that can be used to test the connection in a pool to see if it's alive. You might try: validationQuery="SELECT 1" You c

Re: [proposal] integrating womAn@a.o into an Apache code of practice

2010-09-16 Thread Sean Owen
>From the uninformed peanut gallery: I don't understand just about any of this thread of messages, if it's supposed to be serious. Am I thick? or is it supposed to be simply humorous? If humorous, it's pretty elaborate and not bad and all that, but, is this related to Apache any longer? I like th