There seems reason for both, and one (Mavenize it) would be precondition/blocker for the other[?]
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Reza <[email protected]> wrote: > I changed it to unassigned. I thought this task was exposing a w3c ddr api > in the client. Its still a task, I will make a new jira ticket to track it. > > > ________________________________ > From: Werner Keil <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" < > [email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 8, 2014 1:38 PM > Subject: Re: Was contrib/w3c/ddr-simple contributed with permission? > > > > 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 > >>>> > >>> > >> > > >
