Re: [VOTE] Accept Composer in the Incubator

2007-10-23 Thread peter royal
On Oct 23, 2007, at 1:46 PM, Kevan Miller wrote: I took a peek at plexus and picocontainer mailing lists. One thing of note is that there seems to have been little discussion on the picocontainer lists about a move to Apache. Perhaps discussions were offline, but it's not clear to me how the

Re: [VOTE] Accept Composer in the Incubator

2007-10-23 Thread peter royal
On Oct 22, 2007, at 12:13 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: As mentioned previously, both containers are heavily used, both have always lived as open source projects. Plexus has 17 Apache committers, Pico has 4 so most of the participants are already familiar with projects here. [ ] +1 Accept Compo

Re: [PROPOSAL] Buildr

2007-10-23 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On 10/24/07, Matthieu Riou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...= Initial Committers = > > * Assaf Arkin > * Alex Boisvert > * Matthieu Riou... Considering the recent discussions about diversity, would it be ok for you to include these people's company affiliations in the proposal? -Bertrand

[VOTE] approve stdcxx 4.2.0 release

2007-10-23 Thread Martin Sebor
The stdcxx community has just successfully closed a vote to release stdcxx 4.2.0. In accordance with the Releases section of the Incubation Policy we request the permission of the Incubator PMC to publish the tarball containing the release on the stdcxx Download page. This vote will close in the

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache RAT

2007-10-23 Thread Matt Hogstrom
I'll volunteer...having done lot's of releases for Geronimo I have an affinity for the little beast. On Oct 23, 2007, at 4:52 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: On 10/23/07, Robert Burrell Donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mentors -- * Yoav Shapira * Ross Gardler I would p

Re: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2007-10-23 Thread Matt Hogstrom
Jim, Thanks for this feedback. I think you raise a good point that one of the goals of community building is discovering a community's true synergies and strengths and that sometimes the right outcome is not a single community. Where goals are mis-aligned then a respectful change of dir

Re: [PROPOSAL] Buildr

2007-10-23 Thread Eelco Hillenius
> Here is a proposal for Buildr incubation. Buildr is a simple and intuitive > build system for Java projects written in Ruby (and based on Rake). The > complete proposal is at [1] and also reproduced at the end of this e-mail. > > Feedback and questions are very welcome! Mentors volunteering too :

[PROPOSAL] Buildr

2007-10-23 Thread Matthieu Riou
Hi, Here is a proposal for Buildr incubation. Buildr is a simple and intuitive build system for Java projects written in Ruby (and based on Rake). The complete proposal is at [1] and also reproduced at the end of this e-mail. Feedback and questions are very welcome! Mentors volunteering too :) T

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache RAT

2007-10-23 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 10/23/07, Robert Burrell Donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mentors > -- > > * Yoav Shapira > * Ross Gardler > > I would prefer mentors who have not been involved with RAT. This will > allow a more objective perspective. I doubt that supervision will be > too great a burden.

Re: [VOTE] Accept Composer in the Incubator

2007-10-23 Thread Kevan Miller
+1 I took a peek at plexus and picocontainer mailing lists. One thing of note is that there seems to have been little discussion on the picocontainer lists about a move to Apache. Perhaps discussions were offline, but it's not clear to me how their community, beyond Paul Hammant, feels ab

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache RAT

2007-10-23 Thread Martijn Dashorst
On 10/23/07, Robert Burrell Donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/RatProposal has been stable for a > while now so i'd like to throw it open to final scrutiny before i call > for a VOTE. (please don't vote yet ;-) Looks like a solid proposal to me! As far as the nam

Re: Composer dependency on "BSH"

2007-10-23 Thread Jason van Zyl
He meant BSF, though Plexus can optionally use BSH as a component factory. On 23 Oct 07, at 11:48 AM 23 Oct 07, sebb wrote: The Wiki proposal mentions that Composer has an optional dependency on the Apache project "BSH". I could not find an Apache project called BSH. Is is then BeanShell (w

[PROPOSAL] Apache RAT

2007-10-23 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/RatProposal has been stable for a while now so i'd like to throw it open to final scrutiny before i call for a VOTE. (please don't vote yet ;-) the name "RAT" has been discussed previously - see http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/200710.mbox

Re: Assigning issues in JIRA?

2007-10-23 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 10/22/07, Craig L Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Janne, > > I'm copying the incubator general list for feedback from others with > more experience in ICLA vs. Software Grant... > > On Oct 22, 2007, at 10:47 AM, Janne Jalkanen wrote: > > >> Perhaps you can recap the status of the code. W

Composer dependency on "BSH"

2007-10-23 Thread sebb
The Wiki proposal mentions that Composer has an optional dependency on the Apache project "BSH". I could not find an Apache project called BSH. Is is then BeanShell (which is not an Apache project) or should it be "BSF" (which is Apache)? Or perhaps something else entirely? S On 22/10/2007, Jas

Re: [VOTE] Accept Composer in the Incubator

2007-10-23 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Oct 23, 2007, at 2:30 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: On 23 Oct 07, at 5:46 AM 23 Oct 07, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Oct 22, 2007, at 4:55 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: On 22 Oct 07, at 10:36 AM 22 Oct 07, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Oct 22, 2007, at 12:13 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: Plexus has 17 Apa

Re: [VOTE] Accept Composer in the Incubator

2007-10-23 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 23 Oct 07, at 5:46 AM 23 Oct 07, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Oct 22, 2007, at 4:55 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: On 22 Oct 07, at 10:36 AM 22 Oct 07, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Oct 22, 2007, at 12:13 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: Plexus has 17 Apache committers, Pico has 4 so most of the participa

Re: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2007-10-23 Thread Jim Marino
On Oct 23, 2007, at 6:43 AM, Davanum Srinivas wrote: Noel, I was there when it happened. It was actually the other way around..Short story, the "independents" had trouble letting anyone else work or suggest ideas which went against their own mental model of how things should be. When i argued

Re: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2007-10-23 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Just one example of the community bending over back wards to accomodate Jim and Jeremy http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg05118.html Please search for "chianti" in the archives to get the background. Basically the trunk was abandoned and the revolutionary "fork" was accepted *JUST*

Re: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2007-10-23 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Noel, FYI, I could plainly see who was working hard to co-exist and who wasnt'. IMHO, the people who left clearly did not want to play/participate. It was sacrilege to do anything that was against their mental model of things had to work. My 2 cents. -- dims On 10/23/07, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL

Re: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2007-10-23 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Noel, I was there when it happened. It was actually the other way around..Short story, the "independents" had trouble letting anyone else work or suggest ideas which went against their own mental model of how things should be. When i argued for a middle path vociferously, they left. -- dims On

RE: [VOTE] Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2007-10-23 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Paul Fremantle wrote: > I think the PPMC needs this sort of concrete feedback. And perhaps needs to consider that diversity means supporting a broader community of interests. --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

RE: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2007-10-23 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Jim Marino wrote: > About seven months ago, BEA decided to pursue an alternative > direction with the other active independents working on SCA > at the time when our goals diverged from others in the community. > Speaking for BEA, we made it clear on multiple occasions that > while we wished Tusca

RE: Graduate Tuscany as a top level project

2007-10-23 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Matthieu Riou wrote: > they did welcome enough independent committers while being in the > incubator > Attracting a large quantity of independent developers while being > in the incubator is pretty hard Yes, but it seems to be emerging that there *were* more independents, and they have left to w

Re: [VOTE] Accept Composer in the Incubator

2007-10-23 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Oct 22, 2007, at 4:55 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: On 22 Oct 07, at 10:36 AM 22 Oct 07, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Oct 22, 2007, at 12:13 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: Plexus has 17 Apache committers, Pico has 4 so most of the participants are already familiar with projects here. But not all