see intermixed

> Hum....    I'll answer the easy question first..  I think the 
> @author tags
> should stay since it is an option.  The PMC justs asks that 
> projects make a decision on it one way or the other.  So, for 
> [email], I'll register myself on the "yes they should stay" side.

yes ok :) no problem with it. In MyFaces, which is now in Incubator,
we keep them too. But Struts for instance has removed them.

> The reason is that it helps figure out who had impact on what 
> code, and at least for me, gives me the warm fuzzy's!  It 
> doensn't change copyright or anything, that remains with ASF. 
>  I belive it encourages contribution to see your name in 
> "lights" and I would like them to stay.

yes! that's it ;-)

> So, on the second side..  I guess, to what extent do we 
> validate email information?  I agree that requiring 
> commons-validator seems a bit much for a small project like 
> [email] just to use it.  On the other hand, it does wrap the 
> functionatliy up.
> 
> Can you think of way to have our cake and eat it too?  In 
> other words, what is involved in maybe adding some sort of 
> email validator decorate/helper class?  Maybe something in a 
> contrib directory showing how to do it..

well helperclazzes sounds more reasonable to me,
but does this blow up [email] ?

> [email] should remain small, and having a dependency on 
> commons-validator is a lot...

yes!
my +1 on remoing this dependency

> Eric
> 
> PS, please tag your emails with [email], many folks filter on 
> that type of tag in commons!

sorry just forgotten...


Matthias

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matthias Wessendorf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 9:25 AM
> > To: 'Jakarta Commons Developers List'
> > Subject: RE: Validator inside of Email.java (RE: [email] Dumbster
> > failing)
> >
> >
> > Want to say:
> >
> > A object represented by a clazz (subclass)
> > of Email should be a valid Email.
> >
> > The validation should be done *before*
> > creating an object of that class.
> >
> >
> > -Matthias
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Matthias Wessendorf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 9:09 AM
> > > To: 'Jakarta Commons Developers List'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Validator inside of Email.java (RE: [email] Dumbster 
> > > failing)
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Eric,
> > >
> > > I just update my email sources.
> > > and looked abit on the patches
> > > you are submitting. Cool to have
> > > some unittest.
> > >
> > > Btw. I saw that EmailValidator
> > > of Commons Validator is used
> > > inside of Email.java;
> > > Does it realy make sence to
> > > validate an e-mail inside that class?
> > >
> > > shouldn't this work be done outside?
> > >
> > > eg. enter e-mail via Struts
> > > (validate it)
> > > in action.clazz passing the String
> > > to the class that is using [email] ?
> > >
> > > Just my thought.
> > >
> > > Btw. what should we do with the
> > > @author tags? since some projects
> > > of Apache/Jakarta are removing them.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Matthias
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Eric Pugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 11:35 PM
> > > > Cc: Jakarta Commons Developers List
> > > > Subject: RE: [email] Dumbster failing
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Not a problem.  I appreciate your working with me on this. I am 
> > > > looking forward to getting [email] whipped into shape!
> > > >
> > > > ERi
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Corey Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 7:21 PM
> > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > Cc: Jakarta Commons Developers List
> > > > > Subject: Re: [email] Dumbster failing
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Ok, I have the tests all up and running with Maven.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have also made some minor mods, based on the tests or
> > > > improving the
> > > > > input checking (this is why some of the tests are failing,
> > > > there where
> > > > > against my changes not the HEAD version.... sorry)
> > > > >
> > > > > So once we get this formatting issue sorted, I will submit
> > > > to you the
> > > > > new patch.  This should raise the test coverage to 
> 90+% for all
> > > > > (non-deprecated) classes.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Corey
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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