Re: [VOTE] Graduate Derby from the incubator

2005-04-04 Thread Jeremy Boynes
Brian McCallister wrote: Derby depends on nothing else at Apache (except ant for its build), and is depended on by nothing else at Apache. Let's not forget that the Derby codebase extends back to the dim dark distant days of the 1990's before many of the ASF's Java projects even existed. More

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Derby from the incubator

2005-04-04 Thread Brian McCallister
To clarify my statement on project dependencies: I think that Derby has already grown a large and diverse community around itself, and that is important to consider as well. Projects dependent upon derby, be they ASF or otherwise, have a significant second-order effect on the project's truck num

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Derby from the incubator

2005-04-04 Thread Craig Russell
JDO (currently incubating in Apache DB) uses Derby to validate the implementation of JDO against relational databases. Craig On Apr 4, 2005, at 6:56 AM, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On Apr 3, 2005, at 11:51 AM, Brian McCallister wrote: Derby depends on nothing else at Apache (except ant for its buil

Fw: Donation of JAXP 1.3 Sources to Apache

2005-04-04 Thread Sarah McNamara
+1 to putting the JAXP 1.3 sources on the main trunk, tagging it and making a branch for the old JAXP sources on the current main trunk. I think xml-commons is very quite at the moment, so work could proceed right now. As far as updating the Xalan and Xerces? sources, I think there was discussion

Re: Donation of JAXP 1.3 Sources to Apache

2005-04-04 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Neeraj, my 2 cents...upload the whole thing say in xml-commons/contrib/jaxp13 cvs so everyone can take a look (and then pick on the bits they want/need)...yes, changes to xml-commons can be made ASAP (after tagging the current code in the main trunk there) and it's upto the xml xerces/xalan folks

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Derby from the incubator

2005-04-04 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr .
On Mar 29, 2005, at 4:59 PM, Ted Leung wrote: -1 I am surprised that people think the committer diversity issues are not an issue for graduation. As far as I can tell, the distribution of committers in Derby is worse than either Xerces-J, or Xalan-J both of which have been viewed negatively beca

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Derby from the incubator

2005-04-04 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr .
On Apr 3, 2005, at 11:51 AM, Brian McCallister wrote: Derby depends on nothing else at Apache (except ant for its build), and is depended on by nothing else at Apache. This is *good* from a technical point of view, but is a weakness from a community health point of view. Geronimo uses it. -- Gei

Re: Donation of JAXP 1.3 Sources to Apache

2005-04-04 Thread Neeraj Bajaj
Thanks Michael for your response. I was just wondering what would be idle time to wait before i start work on this ? Does anyone has an opinion, Is there any other list where i should send this mail before making changes ? - Neeraj Michael Glavassevich wrote: Hi Neeraj, +1 to putting the JAXP 1.