RE: Undermining the Incubator

2004-01-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Steven Noels wrote: > and if we consider it fixed we don't have anything to rant about anymore. But if there *are* remaining problems, those should be brought up constructively so that they can be fixed, too. :-) --- Noel

RE: Undermining the Incubator

2004-01-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> In summary: Oh of course no problems exist, its all fixed and happy. > Just don't mind the dead bodies floating in the pond. In other words, because there were problems before it was fixed, it doesn't matter if it is fixed now or not? --- Noel

RE: Undermining the Incubator

2004-01-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Andrew C. Oliver wrote: > I suggested that Blojsom might be a good choice for hosting ASF > project news and might also make a great ASF project as I know > the author is already indoctrinated > I didn't say it would be a good project for the incubator. The Incubator is how projects get into the

ASF JIRA Installation is available

2004-01-12 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Folks, We have completed installation of Jira for the ASF use. Questions regarding that can be discussed on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Requests would be directed to infrastructure by a PMC. I do, however, want to make one important request. If/when you sign into Jira, BE SURE to use the same e-mail add

RE: Single Location for syndicated Apache blogs

2004-01-12 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Ted Leung wrote: > I'm not fully up on LDAP -- can I just put pointer records into it?. > perhaps the LDAP records for someone could have a urls.txt kind of > pointer, and contain or point to foundation specific records. Short answer is yes. Longer answer is RFC 2079. --- Noel ---

RE: Single Location for syndicated Apache blogs

2004-01-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: > If Incubator Committee takes "graduation examination" bi-monthly > in place by force partly, many "under-incubation" projects might > pass the exams. Even though fails, they would pass in the next period. Each project in the Incubator is required to maintain a STATUS file

RE: Single Location for syndicated Apache blogs

2004-01-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Andrew C. Oliver wrote: > > In my opinion, some projects are spending too long in the > > Incubator because they aren't focusing on getting out. > Let us analyze why that is. I cannot speak for why they don't focusing on exiting, Andrew, and neither can you. You might ask each project why they

RE: Single Location for syndicated Apache blogs

2004-01-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Ted Leung wrote: > If we had some kind of record (like a FOAF file) that we stick krell, > and planet* and whatever data in, that would be good. We're starting > to have data all over the place. members.txt, urls.txt, and probably > more that I'm not remembering. Be nice to have an authoritativ

RE: Single Location for syndicated Apache blogs

2004-01-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Dave Brondsema wrote: > So if it's not a formality that all new ASF projects should undergo, who decides > if a project should be incubated or if it can go directly to being a regular > project? The ASF Board, when it created the Incubator, and designated it as the only PMC authorized to accept n

RE: Single Location for syndicated Apache blogs

2004-01-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> I would like to see the "cheerful"/"considerate" incubation. So do we all. > > The Incubator's purpose is to ensure that projects coming into the ASF > > - are legally clean, > > - that their communities are healthy, > > - and that they follow basic ASF policies/procedures. > I agree wit

RE: Single Location for syndicated Apache blogs

2004-01-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Andrew C. Oliver wrote: > > Unrelated to whether or not we would use it, I think that blojsom could be a > > very nice ASF project. From what I have seen of it, I'd support its entry > > to the Incubator. > Does it seem sensible to take an already successful ASL licensed, > community developed p

RE: Single Location for syndicated Apache blogs

2004-01-10 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Tetsuya, > Ceremony. I suspect it that even such a nice community has to > be baptized once. (one day or less) > Legitimatization, in order to keep *consistency* in a big > and social community. To make it orthodox. No, Incubation has nothing to do with pomp and circumstance. --- Noel

RE: Single Location for syndicated Apache blogs

2004-01-10 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> It is possible that he'd be willing to [bring blojsom] to the incubator. > It already has a very active community. Its probably bordering on > becoming a "standard" just because Roller tends to take Blojsom's code. Unrelated to whether or not we would use it, I think that blojsom could be a ver

RE: Single Location for syndicated Apache blogs

2004-01-08 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Ted Leung wrote: > Um, there's lots of standard technology for blogs. > I did not volunteer to be a guinea pig for another > let's (re)invent a CMS project. > We can switch over when something is working, but I want > to have something that works today. Well, of course. The second paragraph wa

RE: Single Location for syndicated Apache blogs

2004-01-08 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> Ok, I'm quite happy to register and host planetapache.org; whether or > not we want to point it at minotaur is more or less irrelevant I think, > but I'm open to argument either way. :-) Personally, a useful application of this technology would be to provide projects with a means to publish new

RE: Single Location for syndicated Apache blogs

2004-01-08 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Brian Behlendorf wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > We have so far voted to not create an ASF blog because we do not want the > > perception of the ASF approving the content of the blogs. > I missed out on that vote, but FWIW, I have no problem with an aggregator, > or even

RE: Single Location for syndicated Apache blogs

2004-01-08 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> Many other open source projects, including Debian, the Linux Kernel > developers, and Mono, are aggregating the RSS feeds of their blogging > contributors and putting them up on a web site. This is something > that would be good for the ASF to do as well We have so far voted to not create an AS

Jira status update

2003-12-30 Thread Noel J. Bergman
There has been a slight delay in the roll-out. On Monday, ASF Jira installation was updated to the latest Jira code from Atlassian. That code includes the necessary changes for selectively importing Bugzilla projects, so that each project that wants to migrate from Bugzilla to Jira can do so. We

RE: *** JIRA - PLEASE CHECK/TEST ***

2003-12-20 Thread Noel J. Bergman
James Mitchell asked: > From their online demo: > http://jira.atlassian.com/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&pid=10450&pr iorityIds=4&resolutionIds=-1 > System Error > A system error has occurred. > [...] > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError > [...] > Total Memory: 346 MB > Free Memory: 2 MB > Used

RE: Newsletter - to be or not to be?

2003-12-01 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> Do people want the newsletter to continue? If so then I'm happy > to edit the Oct/Nov issue with no promises to tackle subsequent > issues - aiming to publish in a week or so. +1 and much thanks. > As much as voting with +1s would be appreciated, voting with content would > be better Tetsuya

Yes, the server is unavailable

2003-11-19 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Yes, minotaur (www, cvs, etc.) is unavailable. We know about it, and everything that can be done to get to back online promptly is being done. This message is being sent rather than have lots of individual e-mails asking about it. :-) --- Noel --

RE: bogus subs to mailing lists (more?)

2003-11-07 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> > fwiw: there is a nice concept called Tripoli, see > > http://www.pfir.org/tripoli-overview > A nice scheme against spam, I read about some time ago, was about > requiring the email sender to compute a computationally difficult > challenge before the email was accepted, for uknown/untrusted sen

RE: bogus subs to mailing lists (more?)

2003-11-06 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> > How do you propose getting a critical mass of signed mail, and what do > > you want to do in the meantime with unsigned mail from a subscriber? > Making life easier for people using them and more difficult for people > not using them. > I expected some expert to come out and say "Actually, pr

RE: bogus subs to mailing lists (more?)

2003-11-05 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> I think the moment is coming where we should think about using those > interesting GPG keys for something more than "just" signing releases. S/MIME certificates are acquired, e.g., from Thawte, just as you would an SSL certificate. There are root Certificate Authorities, just as for HTTPS. Any

RE: ApacheCon logo: a little less busy

2003-10-30 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> http://www.cocooncenter.org/apache/coins-04.png Put that on the back and Fitz's on the pocket (assuming that there isn't a price issue), and sell one to me. :-) Some of might want one even if we can't attend this year. --- Noel ---

RE: ApacheCon logo: a little less busy

2003-10-30 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> http://www.red-bean.com/fitz/acpoker.jpg Very cute. :-) --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: RfP: Apache T-Shirt Logo Contest

2003-10-30 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> http://www.cocooncenter.org/apache/apache-bandit-02.png I have to admit that with my perverse sense of humor, I'd like to see the normal above and below, with things like GPL, Roll-Your-own and Vendor Lock-in as some of the losing items, and a big flashing sign showing all Apache as hitting the

RE: RfP: Apache T-Shirt Logo Contest

2003-10-29 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> Just another question - would you mind considering a > Las Vegas-related motive? My only comment was that we want to avoid American Indian motifs. Fitz's LV-related image is pretty clever, I think, but I'm sure there are a lot of good ideas. --- Noel -

RE: RfP: Apache T-Shirt Logo Contest

2003-10-29 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> > > OK, here's one with *the* feather :) > > > http://www.cocooncenter.org/apache/apachecon2.png > > > My question is whether we want to use the indian motif at all. > And my answer would be no. I think it would be better to stay away from > that kind of theme. Agreed. Consider my question lea

RE: RfP: Apache T-Shirt Logo Contest

2003-10-29 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> OK, here's one with *the* feather :) > http://www.cocooncenter.org/apache/apachecon2.png My question is whether we want to use the indian motif at all. --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additiona

RE: ML Config (Re: Press PR)

2003-10-26 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> At least, projects@incubator.apache.org and > jaxme-dev@ws.apache.org have wrong configurations. > Please fix and notify it of the participants of > these mailing lists after that. The owners of those lists (the Incubator and WS PMCs respectively) can request a change to [EMAIL PROTECTED] An

RE: Press PR (was Re: The board is not responsible!)

2003-10-26 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> > Some lists were setup wrong. AFAIK, none of the lists should accept mail > > from non-subscribers without moderation. > Although there are some lists where it might be nice. repository@ was setup that way. There was no advertisement of its existence, yet it was receiving spam. I don't thin

RE: Press PR (was Re: The board is not responsible!)

2003-10-25 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> when I subscribed to some mailing lists, I got stunned (B> at seeing the fact that some mailing lists accepted (B> spam mails. (B (BSome lists were setup wrong. AFAIK, none of the lists should accept mail (Bfrom non-subscribers without moderation. (B (B> I thought that this was tightly re

RE: Internationalization list/team

2003-10-22 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> > As for internationalization, I don't see why it should not be part of Apache > > Commons. I think that it is exactly the correct place for it. I don't know > > that it needs a CVS module, but I'm not opposed to one. > Apache Commons uses SVN :-) self: :-( at: self And I knew that, too. We

Internationalization list/team

2003-10-22 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: > * Mailing Team (Board Committee) > * Internationalization Team (Board Committee) > are what I needed and wanted. > (*NOT* [EMAIL PROTECTED]: for i18n) There is a mailing team. "apmail" is part of infrastructure. As for internationalization, I don't see why it should n

RE: [RT] Mailing Lists

2003-10-22 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Your points about low-bandwidth devices seems quite reasonable. Your proposal for a [EMAIL PROTECTED], which could be more verbose seems fine. Do you have a proposal for a size limit to enforce on [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please do *not* consider requests to respect announce@ bandwidth > as a slight

RE: The board is not responsible!

2003-10-22 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> > > Isn't the ASF Board ultimately responsible > > This is just wrong. Responsibility lies with the individual > > commiters, members, and their associated project PMCs. > But this seems to have been exactly the problem with the recent > discussions. The arguments have been over the use of th

RE: [RT] About Tetsuya decision....

2003-10-20 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> On the other way, I wonder how Tetsuya gives the job too easily. There was no strong criticism. Simply the request that instead of the entire newsletter, an announcement be posted. Other than that, the newsletter (and Tetsuya's handling of it) have received praise and strong support.

RE: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-19 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> The original intention of the newsletter was "Newsletter > will be one of the *glue* of the communities in the ASF > umbrella > ... It seems that the newsletter itself is going to the contrary. The newsletter is doing that job. All that was asked is that you post an announcement to announce@,

RE: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-19 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Tetsuya, All that David was asking is that you post a SHORT announcement, like the sample I posted, rather than the ENTIRE newsletter. That is all. You did a great job, as usual, on the newsletter, and you should continue to do so, IMO. --- Noel ---

RE: Apachecon: The Guru Is In

2003-09-28 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> In my opinion the key idea of the ASF is to push the idea of the different > communities behind a project. > Pushing the idea of a "guru" (IMVHO) is exactly the opposite of pushing the > idea of a community. How does making it plural work for you? IOW, "The Gurus Are In." That is somewhere be

RE: establish a trust relationship (Re: missing signatures)

2003-09-24 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> Ahhh. Now, there are no *ASF members* in Japan (Maybe, this goes for > other Asian countries), so the things can be easily inconsistent. There are other ASF Committers in Japan. Lief Mortenson, for example, the author of the Java Wrapper and frequent Avalon contributor. I assume that you are r

802.11g broadband sharing without timeouts

2003-09-24 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Can anyone recommend a good 802.11g broadband sharing device that doesn't timeout NAT sessions after 15 min or so? I tested D-LINK, SMC, Belkin, and a whole bunch of other 802.11b systems over the winter, and only the Linksys didn't have a problem (e.g., if you leave an SSH session idle while fetc

RE: Liaison of Jakarta/XML/WS and related

2003-09-24 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> Would it be a silly idea to create the mailing list > of the "united" Jakarta/XML/WS and related projects? What makes that a grouping a community other than a common interest by most in the Java platform? If people don't have common interests, there is little about which to talk. Where there a

RE: Follow the example

2003-09-19 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> And your point would be? That since ApacheCon doesn't have a session on > James, that the James home page should not advertise ApacheCon? Hey guys, leave us out of this argument. I sent an e-mail off this morning on our site and PMC lists asking if someone would get to it if they had time befor

RE: Follow the example

2003-09-19 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> > Is Dion staying [for ApacheCon]? Cool. I just knew that he'd > > be rooming with us at the Software Summit conference at the > > end of October. > So I think you should double your budget ... My budget? Dion and I are just friends going back for many years. It all started when his company

RE: Follow the example

2003-09-19 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> Dion - I think we are going to have to get a suite and shift you > up to marketing! Is Dion staying that long? Cool. I just knew that he'd be rooming with us at the Software Summit conference at the end of October. --- Noel ---

RE: FW: Microsoft's patent loss rattles tech community

2003-09-06 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Brian, You asked about what evidence there might be that Eolas intends to enforce the patent against other companies than Microsoft, particularly Open Source projects. To quote an article Eolas publishes on their web site (http://www.eolas.com/PatentWarPendingOverApplets.pdf): Eolas plans to p

RE: FW: Microsoft's patent loss rattles tech community

2003-09-06 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Serge Knystautas wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > As far as I am concerned, it would be desirable for the W3C should have a > > copyright on HTML, XML, etc., and be able to deny the right to use those > > standards to anyone claiming IP rights over them. Other standa

RE: FW: Microsoft's patent loss rattles tech community

2003-09-05 Thread Noel J. Bergman
David, ... what if some other big player were to acquire or merge with us? What if only one best-of-breed browser could run embedded plug-ins, applets, ActiveX controls, or anything like them, and it wasn't IE? How competitive would the other

RE: FW: Microsoft's patent loss rattles tech community

2003-09-05 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> Is there any indication yet that Eolas intends to enforce this patent on > any open source or free software projects? >From their attorney's web site (and from the UC web site): Q. Won't this patent put a stranglehold on the Internet? A. UC seeks fair compensation for the use of the technology

FW: Microsoft's patent loss rattles tech community

2003-09-04 Thread Noel J. Bergman
See: http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/03/HNmicrosoftsloss_1.html With respect to the mess of software patents, here is an example where initially most people laughed, "Ha ha, they fed Microsoft!", until it slowly began to dawn on people that this is a huge problem. For example, consider

RE: [VOTE] Support the EU patent protest

2003-08-27 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > Though I personally support the patent protest; and have been heavily > donating bits, bandwidth,bytes and storage to the cause as a private > citizen; I am not too eager to see the ASF jump into the political > arena. FWIW, I checked around. None of: www.gnu.or

RE: Draft proposal for EU patents protest

2003-08-26 Thread Noel J. Bergman
-Original Message- Gianugo Rabellino wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > Whatever text we adopted will need to be approved, anyhow, but do you want > > to add anything to the effect that the Apache Software Foundation develops > > software based upon Open Standar

RE: EU Software Patents

2003-08-26 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> > I predict that it will be really ugly. Fortunately, there are Open > > Source friendly companies like IBM, so with their patronage, Open > > Source can succeed. Should they turn face, ugly will be an understatement. > Agreed, but did you know: [that IBM is the world’s most prolific patenter]

RE: EU Software Patents

2003-08-26 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> Is having the real home page one click or 60-seconds away for one day > really something that bugs the Apache userbase a lot? No. I think what you did was fine in that regard, and have already commented on it. We are apparently still dealing with mail-lag. :-) > I know that patents will be a

RE: Draft proposal for EU patents protest

2003-08-26 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> http://cvs.apache.org/~gianugo/apache-protest.html "Page Closed" -> "Important Notice" "this site" -> "this site's" --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: Draft proposal for EU patents protest

2003-08-26 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Whatever text we adopted will need to be approved, anyhow, but do you want to add anything to the effect that the Apache Software Foundation develops software based upon Open Standards and promotes inter-operability, both of which would be threatened by software patents, and therefore the ASF is ta

RE: EU Software Patents

2003-08-26 Thread Noel J. Bergman
I am in favor of opposing software patents (they aren not working out great in the USA), but we should not disadvantage our users. If we post anything, as we did regarding the JCP, it should not prevent our users from easily using the site. People count on the ASF, and while we may want them to f

RE: No answer from announceme...@jakarta.apache.org [Fwd:Returnedpost for announceme...@jakarta.apache.org]

2003-08-26 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> If I remember correctly, Brian modified the settings of each > announce(ments)@.apache.org mailing lists to forward to > announce@apache.org automatically... Right!? It was discussed, but I don't believe that it was effected. Brian had some concerns. See the community@ archives. --- N

RE: annou...@apache.org, was Re: Newsletter.

2003-08-18 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> > (b) subscribe each [EMAIL PROTECTED] to announce@apache.org > Whoa whoa whoa. b) is backwards - from the other discussions on this, you > wanted to subscribe announce@apache.org to each [EMAIL PROTECTED], > not the other way around. I think you're saying what I meant. announce@apache.org

RE: annou...@apache.org, was Re: Newsletter.

2003-08-18 Thread Noel J. Bergman
So then it sounds as if two "action" items are to: (a) ensure that each TLP has an announce@ (b) subscribe each [EMAIL PROTECTED] to announce@apache.org Works for me. --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTE

RE: Newsletter.

2003-08-17 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> Of course, I never really clarified this, which might have been part > of the problem. I just hoped people would figure out by example. Uh huh ... LOL --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additiona

RE: Newsletter.

2003-08-16 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Joshua, Joshua Slive wrote: > When I originally proposed the announce@apache.org list, the purpose was > this: Each project would send their announcements to their own list (eg. > announce@httpd.apache.org) AND send a copy to [EMAIL PROTECTED] That > way people could choose whether they wanted an

RE: Newsletter.

2003-08-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Personally, I think that announce@apache.org is the correct place for a monthly ASF newsletter. However, I do agree with your comments related to the terra-intl.com references. The following ought to have been removed: "My main job is marketing, business development and IT consulting [4]." al

Kudos to infrastructure team

2003-08-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Considering how many members of the Apache Community just take the smooth operation of the infrastructure for granted, I think that people like Ask, Brian, Cliff, Greg, Justin, Manoj, Pier, Sander, Thom, et al, deserve credit for all of the things that they do which allow the rest of us to take the

RE: [l10n] localisation infrastructure (was Re: [i18n] Internationalization project)

2003-07-16 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> I set up the translated mirror site in my company's host > (jakarta.terra-intl.com), but if there is *completely > consistent infrastracture* in apache.org, I am willing > to put the contents on it. You are asking, I believe, about support for MultiViews. For any given page, P, there could be P

RE: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-16 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Joerg Pietschmann: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > I think that "bringing together a group of volunteers who are not coders, > > and who may not even be experts on one particular project outside its > > documentation, but who are able to provide translations" would

RE: [l10n] localisation infrastructure (was Re: [i18n] Internationalization project)

2003-07-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> I was thinking on the l10n making "doc commits" and "properties > commits", ... themselves, and having means to track *both* the > source document (in the original project cvs) and the translated > documents (???). That would be possible if they were invited to have Commit access to a project's

RE: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
If the purpose is to come up with a common XML schema (for the sake of discussion) and common tools, I don't see it as being a TLP. Each project will need to have its own resources using the common format and tools. Does a DTD/schema and a set of common language bindings/utility libraries warrant

RE: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
How's about Apache Commons? FWIW, we have some code in James that might be useful for in this area. Yes, the James code is written in Java, but the real offering is the XML resource format, and the operations. --- Noel

RE: Jakarta Newsletter Issue 9 -- May-June 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> But with the obvious caveat that an ASF wide newsletter might become quite > big if people write major dissertations, I'd rather see nice concise precis > of recent activity, and links to more detail text where relevant, I'm more > likely to read it all that way. Let's see what happens. :-) An

RE: Jakarta Newsletter Issue 9 -- May-June 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Danny, As I said to you in the broader context, I wasn't saying that community@ is the right place; just that I think it is hard to call it off-topic if it covers the whole community. Actually, announce@ was one of the places I'd suggested in an earlier message. announce@ has almost no traffic,

RE: Apache Newsletter [Re: Jakarta Newsletter Issue 9 -- May-June 2003]

2003-07-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> This is what I would like to see: +1 --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Jakarta Newsletter Issue 9 -- May-June 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> > I don't think community@ is a valid place for news of a newsletter anyway. > > Perhaps announce@ for those who are interested. > the jakarta newsletter are verging on OT for community@ as well. Perhaps, but it seems to me that this discussion has been about taking the Jakarta Newsletter and t

RE: Jakarta Newsletter Issue 9 -- May-June 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> you can't know who are the new committers without taking > snapshots of /etc/passwd or /home/cvs/CVSROOT/avail AFAICS, committer uids in /etc/passwd started at a particular value, and monotonically increment for each new user, so couldn't he use that as an indicator? --- Noel

RE: acronym-list?

2003-07-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
As I said, I understood your reason. I'm not saying that there shouldn't be a wiki page, but IMO it should reference existing web resources, and not create yet another list. > I could not make out the meaning of "NIH" and searched at google.co.jp... > .. Amazing! "National Institute of Health" c

RE: acronym-list?

2003-07-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> I want the "acronym-list", acronym often used in Apache.Org, > to be put on wikipage, committers module or somewhere appropriate. http://www.astro.umd.edu/~marshall/abbrev.html http://www.holodeck.com/curt/acronyms-internet.html http://www.rnrtech.com/techhelp/acronyms.html http://www.so

RE: Jakarta Newsletter Issue 9 -- May-June 2003

2003-07-10 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Stefano Mazzocchi applauded: > on 7/10/03 4:21 PM Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > > So an apache-wide newsletter would be great. And posting it to apache wide > > announce, or even xposting it to all announce mailing list - sure. I'd > > love that. Having it on the web is nice for archival too -

RE: Apache != HTTPD (was Issues with XMLBeans proposal)

2003-07-10 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> > What if some one/a group of people were to form a watchdog group > > that would bring to the attention of [that] they should infact > > use 'Apache HTTPD' instead of just 'Apache'. > If you want to raise awareness of such an "Apache wide" fact, don't > do it in a "java only" place like Jakarta

Apache Newsletter

2003-07-10 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> > > Why not simply make it the Apache Newsletter, add the projects that are > > > not there yet, and publish it here on [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > +1 > If we list up all the projects in ASF and make Apache-newsletter, > I am (very) afraid it will be too big for ezmlm :-) I don't believe that the ne

RE: Jakarta Newsletter Issue 9 -- May-June 2003

2003-07-10 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> We have different lists for different purposes. This content does not belong > on this list. Which content? The newsletter, or the discussion of turning it into an ASF-wide newsletter? --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-ma

RE: Jakarta Newsletter Issue 9 -- May-June 2003

2003-07-10 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> It has been already said, but the last newsletter was *awesome*! :-) Agreed! :-) > Why not simply make it the Apache Newsletter, add the projects that are > not there yet, and publish it here on [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 It would help to preserve and build community the community aspect(s) of the

RE: archives?

2003-07-03 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> and the stats he is presumaby referring to at: > - http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/archives/001008.html > - http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/archives/001009.html I'd be curious to see commit stats. Total commits per-project, avg commits per-release, avg commits per committer, that sort of

RE: archives?

2003-07-03 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Is this list archived? >>> There are archives at MARC and gmane.org >> And the ASF archives site: http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ > After all the 'eyebrowse down' mails, coming up on infrastructure > every now and then, I didn't even think about it ;-) Those are usually related to a list

RE: archives?

2003-07-03 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> > Is this list archived? > There are archives at MARC and gmane.org And the ASF archives site: http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [

RE: WORA Considered Evil ;-)

2003-06-28 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> > I admit that doing that is not my highest priority right now. We've > > got a lot of nice new contributions that need to be merged. > Noel, I'm not suggesting that you do do it, certainly not that > you do it soon either, chill out man! LOL Don't worry. It hadn't even occured to me to take

RE: WORA Considered Evil ;-)

2003-06-28 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> Aren't the same people right now are saying that Java DOT-NET means > community-based software development??? It is a start. java.net is not the ASF (believe me, I have had that discussion), but give them credit for what they are doing, and encourage them to go further. --- Noel

RE: WORA Considered Evil ;-)

2003-06-27 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> I'm sure that everyone is in favour of hardening James as much as possible. > Its just that we should approach it from a Java perspective, not a C on > Unix one. The issues are different. Not so much. We seem to all be in agreement except on the specific case of how many JVMs per machine, and w

RE: WORA Considered Evil ;-)

2003-06-27 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> > The internals of James models the desired architecture. The issue > > concerning you is that the current implementation does it in a single > > process. That is at least partially addressable with no change to the > > architecture, minimal (if any) change to the implementation, and some > > c

RE: WORA Considered Evil ;-)

2003-06-27 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> >Sun is moving to do a lot more with Open Source licenses. Let's hope that > >discussions about migrating that code to .NET doesn't discourage them. > Exactly how many years have they ignored such issues? I'm not a Sun apologist. Just reporting. See http://www.java.net/choose_license.html, a

RE: WORA Considered Evil ;-)

2003-06-27 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> the problem I have encoutered 1st hand is that there is are *LOT* of java > libraries that we all use everyday which are licenced to us by Sun > (and possibly others) under proprietery licences of one kind or another Sun is moving to do a lot more with Open Source licenses. Let's hope that disc

RE: WORA Considered Evil ;-)

2003-06-27 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> I don't see Java as "glue" because it portrays integration with > non-Java as anathema. It favors portability, which means that the abstractions have to be portable. No reason why you can't have glue classes using JNI to call things, but I would expect whatever is part of a standard distributio

RE: WORA Considered Evil ;-)

2003-06-27 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Steve and Kenny, There is a balance. Not all of Pier's issues may apply, but many of the important ones do. Frankly, I don't want to run anything at root that can avoid it. That is just good practice. Consider Vincenzo's anti-spam matcher. Would you want that to run as root? I am not convince

RE: WORA Considered Evil ;-)

2003-06-27 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> I was raising concerns that *real* sysadms have. I don't know any sysadm > who, free to choose his server operating system, would choose windosh. I personally don't consider Windows to be robust and secure enough as a server operating system. But that is far from a universal view, and I don't f

RE: Java + Scripting languages

2003-06-27 Thread Noel J. Bergman
>>>http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=223 >>I am a priori discouraged because I don't see IBM represented. To have this >>JSR without participation from the BSF folks seems wrong. I don't know if >>this is payback for Eclipse and the WS-I, an oversight, or what. >Lack of warm bodies with the r

RE: WORA Considered Evil ;-)

2003-06-27 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> Well, all "decent" OSes... You won't find "fork" in stupid WindoSH... "According to market researcher OneStat.com, Windows now controls 97.46 percent of the global desktop operating system market, compared to just 1.43 percent for Apple Macintosh and 0.26 percent for Linux." Do you have statist

RE: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-27 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> Hmm. Wait. Java doesn't give you access to shared memory? oh, too bad... It could. Just embed it in tuple-space package. Application code shouldn't know, or care, what the underlying mechanism uses. --- Noel - To un

RE: WORA Considered Evil ;-)

2003-06-26 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> The separate processes would share memory including a part of the > actual JVM code as well as much of the Java library classes if (and I'm > pretty sure only if) you are running on OS X. Apple has provided the > technology to do this back to Sun and it will likely appear in a future > version o

RE: WORA Considered Evil ;-)

2003-06-26 Thread Noel J. Bergman
[Reply in multiple pieces based on sub-topic] > A few months ago, I had a very interesting conversation with Pier on JAMES. Thanks for the background. I'd heard some of it from Serge over time. And the servlet topic gets brought up from time to time by people who see the obvious similarities, b

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