Btw. it's also assigned to Reza at the moment, not sure, if he, Bertrand or someone else is the right person to find a place for the artifact, but there's already a JIRA ticket for this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DMAP-38
Werner Keil | JCP Executive Committee Member, JSR 363 Co Spec Lead | Eclipse UOMo Lead, Babel Language Champion | Java Godfather Twitter @wernerkeil | @UnitAPI | @JSR354 | #EclipseUOMo | #Java_Social | #DevOps Skype werner.keil | Google+ gplus.to/wernerkeil * Developer Week: 14/15 Jul 2014, Nürnberg, Germany. Werner Keil, JCP EC Member, JSR 363 Spec Lead, DevOps Guy will present "Triple-E' class Continuous Delivery", "JSR 363 and IoT" (GER) * JavaZone 2014: 9-11 Sep 2014, Oslo, Norway. Werner Keil, JCP EC Member, JSR 363 Spec Lead will present "JSR 363 - The Answer to Life Science and the Internet of Everything" * JavaOne 2014: Sep 28-Oct 2 2014, San Francisco, USA, Werner Keil, JCP EC Member, JSR 354 EG Member will host "Java and Digital Currencies, Friend or FOE" * JMaghreb 3.0: 4-6 Nov 2014, Casablanca, Morocco. Werner Keil, JCP EC Member, JSR 363 Spec Lead, DevOps Guy will present "Triple-E' class DevOps", "JSR 363" * Mobile Developer Conference kompakt: 18 Nov 2014, Hamburg, Germany. Werner Keil, JCP EC Member, Apache DeviceMap Committer will present "Apache DeviceMap" (GER) On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Werner Keil <[email protected]> wrote: > While there was an outage, the W3C pages related to DDR Simple seem up > again. > This page is very interesting: > http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/DDWG/drafts/api/test-report.html > > It showed, what compatible implementations existed, and at least in an > earlier version the most popular and likely commercially successful > (true;-) WURFL competitor DeviceAtlas did or still does implement it, too. > Passani's argument it is not used seems bullshit. If it became outdated and > e.g. DeviceAtlas no longer use those Java APIs, we could also question it. > Otherwise let's find a way to use it with Maven. > > Werner > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Werner Keil <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Weird, hopefully it's only a side-effect of Hurricane Arthur, but all of >> W3C.org consistently seems DOWN right now, including the DDR API standard >> history. >> >> Another reason to not rely on e.g. the JAR the site also did provide for >> historical reasons, but it seems better to find a BINARY distro than having >> to build it from a codebase like the one on GitHub (or elsewhere, not sure >> if W3C itself still has it, but AFAIK just like other standards like HTML5 >> you are free to use them without restriction or royalties[?]) >> >> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Werner Keil <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> It is simply a clone of this: >>> https://github.com/fnk/w3c-ddr >>> >>> Essentially we would not need the source form in our SVN but the real >>> key problem is, whether or not a BINARY Maven artifact can be provided in a >>> proper way? >>> >>> So far nobody bothered putting it on MavenCentral. Unless there is a >>> legal reason W3C would prohibit that, I guess they just didn't see Java or >>> Maven as important. >>> So consider it a "mirror" of the Git repo. If the DeviceMap build system >>> was flexible enough to grab it from his GitHub repo, then we could delete >>> the mirror. >>> >>> We must find a way to "Mavenize" the target binary, otherwise there is >>> no point in using the W3C Simple DDR and we might have to drop the DDR >>> features once and for all[?] >>> >>> Werner >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi (Werner mostly as you committed this), >>>> >>>> The code under [1] is apparently from W3C, did you have permission >>>> from whoever owns its copyright to contribute it to this project? >>>> >>>> I don't see any license information, and lots of author tags which >>>> might indicate ownership - or not. >>>> >>>> I don't see an urgent need to remove that from our repository, but we >>>> should find out whether you were actually allowed to copy it here or >>>> not. >>>> >>>> -Bertrand >>>> >>>> [1] >>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/devicemap/trunk/contrib/w3c/ddr-simple >>>> >>> >>> >> >
