Re: [jelly] Is jelly still in development vs. Open/FederatedCommons

2008-11-12 Thread John Spackman
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Re: [jelly] Is jelly still in development vs. Open/Federated Commons

2008-11-11 Thread John Spackman
Hi Henri, Using Henri's analogies from his recent blog, I took Jelly home from the Commons a couple of years ago and we're now ready to "put it in the window and see if we're invited to play" [...snip...] As below - analogy was about other Apache projects but probably applies here as you say.

Re: [jelly] Is jelly still in development vs. Open/FederatedCommons

2008-11-11 Thread John Spackman
keep up with patches and commits in order for you to become a committer. Henri, can you please agree that we "try to make jelly enter a maintained mode", within a month or so, before we show "not actively maintained" on the web-page? thanks in advance paul Le 11-nov.-08

Re: [jelly] Is jelly still in development vs. Open/FederatedCommons

2008-11-10 Thread John Spackman
[jelly] Is jelly still in development vs. Open/FederatedCommons John, Le 10-nov.-08 à 07:11, John Spackman a écrit : Yes, kind of - I've only recently come across Git and the concept of DVCS but it was my intention to look at using a DVCS for this. But DVCS "only" does source code - setting u

Re: [jelly] Is jelly still in development vs. Open/FederatedCommons

2008-11-10 Thread John Spackman
Hi Russel, Of course graceful demise is entirely appropriate. The question I have is whether putting effort into maintaining a demising system is worth it compared to putting that effort into transferring to a different (more appropriate, in my view) technology for dealing with the problem. Th

Re: [jelly] Is jelly still in development vs. Open/FederatedCommons

2008-11-09 Thread John Spackman
Hi Russel, Forgive me for butting in on a conversation but . . . Anytime :) Isn't this whole Subversion centralism problem solved by using a DVCS such as Bazaar, or Git -- and soon, I gather, Mercurial. Yes, kind of - I've only recently come across Git and the concept of DVCS but it was m

Re: [jelly] Is jelly still in development vs. Open/Federated Commons

2008-11-09 Thread John Spackman
, November 09, 2008 8:26 PM Subject: Re: [jelly] Is jelly still in development vs. Open/Federated Commons Le 09-nov.-08 à 05:35, John Spackman a écrit : I agree that the website needs some changes although I had thought that this was largely for broken links and for a consistent left- hand si

Re: [jelly] Is jelly still in development vs. Open/Federated Commons

2008-11-08 Thread John Spackman
tate. (correct getting-started, tag-ref somewhat consistent, ...). How doable would it be for you to tackle such repair? I could then try to apply a patch you submit to jira. I am not sure (and hope not) that the web-site can only be fixed by the migration to maven2... paul Le 08-nov.-08 à 10:

Re: [jelly] Is jelly still in development

2008-11-08 Thread John Spackman
Hi, We're still actively using Jelly and while the usefulness of some of the extension modules may be debatable (and definitely without wishing to enter into a debate of whether it is appropriate to have "executable" data), as a core tool Jelly has allowed us to rapidly produce pluggable langu