On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 10:19, acoliver wrote: > We voted on this and everyone agreed a "1.5" production release with the new > jakarta namespaces was called for. The hold up right now is someone from > jakarta with sufficient karma must copy the already existing webpage over to > the main jakarta site. We'll of course want to automate the process as > well. We're pretty much ready IMHO (just maybe a weeks worth of tying down > the hatches) -- just we don't want to have a jakarta release without the > pages being up. > > Overall I think the jakarta transition/etc on whole has cost us about a > month (provided the site is up soon). Not too bad I think. Not great, but > not bad. That puts 2.0 in late April- sometime in May. > > Furthermore, I'll check in the PERL script I used to convert everything and > post instructions on how to use it. >
In catching up on my mails, I read this and it didn't make much sense. The PERL script converts package names from sourceforge to jakarta. It was used on POI itself but there is no reason it couldn't be used on other things. > -Andy > > >On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 21:52:47 -0600 J Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. > >Hello, > > > >I was wondering if anyone knew the timeframe for the initial release of > >this on jakarta. I am considering using this WONDERFUL package for an > >upcoming project, and wanted to get started with an actual jakarta > >release ( I'm lazy, and dont want to change all the package names later. > >) . > > > >I noticed the work seems to be completed as far as moving the code into > >jakarta CVS. Anyone know when official builds will become available? > > > >Thanks for all your work, this project has really gotten my interest. I > >have also been frustured with that certain 10K a liscense company as well! > > > >Jason Hoffman > > > -- www.superlinksoftware.com www.sourceforge.net/projects/poi - port of Excel format to java http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4487555.html - fix java generics! The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -Ambassador Kosh
