Re: [shale] All Hail Shale

2006-05-17 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Craig McClanahan wrote: On 5/16/06, Dakota Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dead on, Wendy. Brett lives in Portland, as does Craig, the perpetrator of Shale. For the record, Howard Lewis Ship (original creator of Tapestry) lives in Portland too :-). Yes, and Tapestry has about as much to

Re: [shale] All Hail Shale

2006-05-16 Thread Jonathan Revusky
hing at all to do with Struts. "as if"... Indeed :-) Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ Part 2: Anatomy of a Shale application http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-shale05126/ See the wiki for a full list of Shale artic

Re: friday ha ha

2006-04-25 Thread Jonathan Revusky
don't see you doing that. Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ We all have a limited number of volunteer hours to spend. I choose to my time helping earnest users. If anyone wants to return that courtesy, please find another earnest user to h

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Jonathan Revusky
if you reviewed the list of current Struts committers, you would find that there are people there who have contributed nothing or hardly anything substantial in years. Why should they be committers when somebody who wants to do something, like Frank, is out in the cold? If that is what

Re: friday ha ha

2006-04-25 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Niall Pemberton wrote: On 4/22/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here is what I think someone would find by examining the archive. Whenever certain pointed questions are posed, one of two things happens: (1) The person being posed the question simply walks away fr

Re: friday ha ha

2006-04-22 Thread Jonathan Revusky
you make, but I would need some sign that you would not just walk away from the discussion yet again. So, there it is, Ted. are you going to walk away from this discussion? Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ Here's a handy summary for futur

Re: friday ha ha

2006-04-21 Thread Jonathan Revusky
, say, this is an improvement in matters. In that vein, Don, in your opinion, what are the primary reasons that Struts 1.x development stagnated? You mention poor communication with your user community. That is definitely a problem. What were the other principal mistakes you made? Jonathan Revu

Re: friday ha ha

2006-04-20 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Alexandre Poitras wrote: On 4/19/06, Dave Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jonathan Revusky wrote: > Maybe a big big big EGO :) Sure, I have an ego that's bigger than the Grand Canyon. I also have a mole on my left buttock. But what does this have to do with anything

Re: friday ha ha

2006-04-20 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Niall Pemberton wrote: On 4/18/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would venture to guess, just as an outside observer, that if the author of Strecks is not given commit access to Struts itself, then he may run into limitations in the Struts codebase and end up

Re: friday ha ha

2006-04-19 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Dave Newton wrote: Jonathan Revusky wrote: Dave Newton wrote: If it _didn't_ make somebody shudder I'd seriously question their overall programming knowledge... at some point you have to start over. Well, that's one assessment. OTOH, it is problematic to think that if som

Re: friday ha ha

2006-04-19 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Alexandre Poitras wrote: On 4/19/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dave Newton wrote: Jonathan Revusky wrote: [...] rather than trying to modernize/refactor it forward From a developer's standpoint I'm not even sure how I'd go about refactoring th

Re: friday ha ha

2006-04-19 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Dave Newton wrote: Jonathan Revusky wrote: Well, there [are] all these issues, and yeah, I guess they could make you and other people shudder. If it _didn't_ make somebody shudder I'd seriously question their overall programming knowledge... at some point you have to start ov

Re: friday ha ha

2006-04-19 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Dave Newton wrote: Jonathan Revusky wrote: [...] rather than trying to modernize/refactor it forward From a developer's standpoint I'm not even sure how I'd go about refactoring the existing Struts 1.x codebase... As an example, I've always been pissy about the Action b

Re: friday ha ha

2006-04-19 Thread Jonathan Revusky
ing to revert to the same game plan and just get obnoxious and nasty to try to shut down the "taboo" conversation. Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ Thanks for at least showing them the way. On 4/18/06, Phil Zoio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: friday ha ha

2006-04-18 Thread Jonathan Revusky
ha ha) Focusing on technology on a project will fail; I think the above statement -- at least if I understand it -- is based on a fallacy. Ditto. Okay, so that means that what *I* am saying is based on a fallacy. Okay, maybe that is so. Point out the fallacy then. Jonathan Re

Re: friday ha ha

2006-04-18 Thread Jonathan Revusky
elieve that everything you have been doing has been wonderfully successful. Do you really believe that? It really makes me wonder whether you view certain things through special rose-colored glasses. Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ ". In

Re: friday ha ha

2006-04-18 Thread Jonathan Revusky
business requirements is better. That is the only choice to make. It is not clear to me how using something that is inferior technically will, as a general proposition, help you to fulfill your business requirements. Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.

Re: friday ha ha

2006-04-18 Thread Jonathan Revusky
't speak for others) the preference of the Struts people would be just to let the Struts 1.x codebase more or less rot and encourage people to move to Action2 or Shale. Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ Z. http://www.theserverside.com/news

Re: Some questions

2006-04-05 Thread Jonathan Revusky
riend... :-) Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ K. On 4/6/06, slam dunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mario, Have you checked out projects like: http://sequoiaerp.org/ http://www.compiere.org/ The advice coming from this user-list is usually very confusi

Re: Some questions

2006-04-05 Thread Jonathan Revusky
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Re: Some questions

2006-04-05 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Bart Busschots wrote: Jonathan Revusky wrote: What do you mean "so what", Frank? If one is new to the java web application space, why on earth should one start using a framework like Struts Classic that (a) is not state of the art and (b) is not going to be developed any furt

Re: Some questions

2006-04-05 Thread Jonathan Revusky
seems crazy to recommend Struts 1.x at this stage of history. If the developers of the thing basically say it's obsolete and won't be developed further, why on earth should this not be taken at face value? Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ I

Re: Some questions

2006-04-05 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: Jonathan Revusky wrote: For starters, development on Struts 1.x, a.k.a. Struts Classic, has been more or less stagnant since about 2002. Umm, since we all like dealing with "facts that are not in dispute"... Struts 1.0, released June 2001 Struts 1.0.1

Re: Some questions

2006-04-04 Thread Jonathan Revusky
a time invested in researching your toolset will be made up many times over down the road. Best Regards, Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ Now that I've given it a test drive, some questions arose: 1) I tried using Eclipse, as I've always di

Re: Why did Struts development stagnate?

2006-04-01 Thread Jonathan Revusky
, there is a concept of dynamic stability. You seem to be confusing the concept of something being stable with it being stationary. In so doing, you have entered into a rather sterile semantic game IMO. Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ On 3/30/06, Dakot

Re: The Mytical stagnation

2006-04-01 Thread Jonathan Revusky
ibility here.) So, I see a real problem here, particularly when the Struts people, for the most part, simply won't countenance the possibility (the _glimmer_ of a possibility, I almost dare say) that there has been anything wrong with their basic approach towards managing the project

Re: Why did Struts development stagnate?

2006-03-30 Thread Jonathan Revusky
lopers themselves. You'd think they would feel some onus to answer such questions. If there are 22 Struts committers who had a say in the decision to go with WW, you'd think they wouldn't all go into hiding when questions are asked about this stuff. Jonathan Revusky -- lead develo

Re: The Mytical stagnation

2006-03-30 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Konstantin Priblouda wrote: --- Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since I don't see that, I have to conclude that most people don't grok what is going on, or at least the full implications. If one does understand the full implications, one ought to be quite wary a

Re: The Mytical stagnation

2006-03-30 Thread Jonathan Revusky
27;s skills towards what will be the 2.x code -- i.e. Webwork. Actually, Bart Busschots did just state that, before this discussion, he did not have a clear idea of what was going on. That's only one guy, okay, but I seriously doubt that he is exceptional in this regard. Jonathan

Re: Why did Struts development stagnate?

2006-03-30 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Struts 1.x, which, you have to think they wouldn't be doing if they fully understood what was going on. Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ FreeMarker group blog, http://freemarker.blogspot.com/ ---

Re: Why did Struts development stagnate?

2006-03-30 Thread Jonathan Revusky
een on the receiving end of an extraordinary amount of abuse here, but there is no need to take out your frustrations on somebody who, AFAICS, has been pretty reasonable and spoken in good faith. (i.e. keep your eye on the ball... ;-)) Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, htt

Re: Why did Struts development stagnate?

2006-03-29 Thread Jonathan Revusky
You complain that people don't answer questions on this list and look what you've just done. So do you have an answer? You should not use me as some kind of scapegoat to take out your frustrations on. Take this stuff up with the Struts PMC, not with me. >Jonathan Revusky

Re: The Mytical stagnation

2006-03-29 Thread Jonathan Revusky
hole thing, you seemed kind of passionate just now. Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ Jonathan Revusky wrote: Bart Busschots wrote: OK, I'm keeping this short: 1) No one put a gun to the WebWorks guys and made them become part of struts, they

Re: Why did Struts development stagnate?

2006-03-29 Thread Jonathan Revusky
te technically. I think there has been very poor communication between developers and users here. You guys just seem to be clued out as to what is going on. You should not use me as some kind of scapegoat to take out your frustrations on. Take this stuff up with the Struts PMC, not with me. Jona

Re: Why did Struts development stagnate?

2006-03-29 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Dion Gillard wrote: On 3/30/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dion Gillard wrote: Jonathan, do you have a list of things that are technically wrong with Struts 1.x? Dion, there is a Struts/Webwork merger afoot whereby the Webwork codebase is being donated to ASF to

Re: The Mytical stagnation

2006-03-29 Thread Jonathan Revusky
ood will to all men. One question, Bart. You didn't answer me before on this. Before today, did you understand what was going on with this Struts/Webwork stuff? I am curious about this. Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ Bart. Jonathan R

Re: Why did Struts development stagnate?

2006-03-29 Thread Jonathan Revusky
, since it is by the WW people, but probably factual enough. You get various blog entries and you can ask these people, who surely know a lot more than I do. The truth is out there (somewhere). I hope that helps. Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ On

Re: The Mytical stagnation

2006-03-29 Thread Jonathan Revusky
The topic has been avoided basically. In any case, if you still think this topic is not worth talking about and other think it, why do you care if they talk about it? Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ Bart. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why did Struts development stagnate?

2006-03-29 Thread Jonathan Revusky
hat Struts 1.x is great stuff after the Struts developers themselves have abandoned it in favor of Webwork. Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ On 3/29/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Vinny wrote: I still say that struts 1

Re: Why did Struts development stagnate?

2006-03-29 Thread Jonathan Revusky
first. Well, look, Vinny, if the Struts developers themselves prefer to base Struts 2 on Webwork, they are saying that Webwork is technically better. If you want to defend Struts 1.x after that, then you're in the position of being more catholic than the pope. Jonathan Revusky --

Re: Debate and Free Speech 101

2006-03-29 Thread Jonathan Revusky
uestion. It can be discussed. This whole fascist stuff of trying to shut people up and cut off debate is really too much. Vinny, you should really think about this stuff a bit more, dude. Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ In closing, Larry, who a

Re: Why did Struts development stagnate?

2006-03-29 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Niall Pemberton wrote: - Original Message - From: "Jonathan Revusky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 11:27 PM It still seems broadly on-topic to me. It's certainly a legitimate, well-formulated question. Seriously, the only other possibilit

Re: Open Source Motivations (Re: I Apologize)

2006-03-29 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Joe Germuska wrote: At 5:30 PM +0200 3/29/06, Jonathan Revusky wrote: It has some clear implications too. No matter how you shake it, the two things were technical *competitors*. Normally, the Struts people should be about as happy to say that Webwork is better as to have a tooth pulled. So

Re: I Apologize

2006-03-29 Thread Jonathan Revusky
y Morals, you are simply incoherent. Do you recognize at all that your points have no logic or sense to them? Don't you care if they are logical? On 3/28/06, Larry Meadors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: LOL, Jon, do you read your own posts? On 3/28/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: I Apologize

2006-03-29 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Michael Jouravlev wrote: On 3/27/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, your taste is questionable. You guys think that Struts 1.x is good code. The Struts developers don't even think that. Struts 1.x sucks compared to WebWork 2, I think everybody got it. Actual

Re: I Apologize

2006-03-29 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Karsten Krieg wrote: Karsten, for a response to your points below, I direct you to my response to Bart Busschots in this same thread. You may consider that this is also response to you. Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ Guys, Struts is being

Re: I Apologize

2006-03-29 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Henri Yandell wrote: On 3/28/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: However, I'm also certain that escalating these conversations gets us nowhere. The only positive solution I know of is to try to point the conversation towards constructive issues and not destructive.

Re: I Apologize

2006-03-29 Thread Jonathan Revusky
tion was, I told you. Do you have an opinion? If you have one, you certainly have every right to express it. Why did Struts development stagnate? Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ Enough is enough. This is going no where usefull, just into the l

Re: I Apologize

2006-03-28 Thread Jonathan Revusky
mes you end up saying things that people don't like. Also, to be saying: "I don't like you doing this to JR, but JR is a bad guy" could lead these kinds of people to interpret this as a sort of "nudge, nudge, wink, wink". I really hope that wasn't your intenti

Re: Debate and Free Speech 101

2006-03-28 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Dave Newton wrote: Jonathan Revusky wrote: Paul really seemed to see moral equivalence between me and the people engaging in the vicious attacks -- consider James Mitchell, who was posting a private message in public in order to fan the flames. Or in order to point out what an ass you

OT: (Re: I Apologize)

2006-03-28 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Dave Newton wrote: List members. Here I am sorry for the off-topic. Dave Newton seems to be insinuating something -- though it's not 100% clear what. Larry Meadors wrote: LOL, Jon, do you read your own posts? Who has the time? As a side note, back when he was spraying on the Velocity

Debate and Free Speech 101

2006-03-28 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Larry Meadors wrote: LOL, Jon, do you read your own posts? On 3/28/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do keep your eye on the ball, Paul. These people have had every chance to respond to my points via legitimate debate and they chose not to. OK, so what you are saying h

Re: I Apologize

2006-03-28 Thread Jonathan Revusky
via legitimate debate and they chose not to. And then they start this stuff. Yet you are trying to extract some kind of moral equivalence out of this. Well, maybe you got ruined by being exposed to too much moral relativism and other sophistry in college. ยด Regards, Jonathan Revusky -- lead

Re: I apologize for maintaining human standards

2006-03-28 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Quinn Stone wrote: Larry Meadors, Rick Reumann, recently departed Jester Moose. Thank you. What are you thanking them for? Let's rewind a sec here. James Mitchell posted a private message to this list that I wrote several days ago when I was angry. He posted the private message in an attempt

Re: I Apologize

2006-03-27 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Brandon Goodin wrote: On 3/27/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brandon Goodin wrote: Okay, I am not a regular reader of the struts mail that roles across my inbox. But, this juicy tidbit caught my attention. Jonathan, I'd just like to say that you took a bold st

Re: I Apologize

2006-03-27 Thread Jonathan Revusky
y apparent that it was a spoof (sheesh, unless you really do have that much trouble with the ladies and dudes stealing your lunch money?). Don't do it again, Rick. As for this "It's just an innocent joke stuff", we are not on a level of familiarity for you to take confidenc

Re: I Apologize

2006-03-27 Thread Jonathan Revusky
funny. Did you think it was funny? Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I Apologize

2006-03-27 Thread Jonathan Revusky
h it just had to be you especially given the idiotic "butt-monkey" post. It was an honest mistake. Your behavior has been deplorable, of course, but you didn't do this. :-) Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ BTW, I do not live in F

Re: I Apologize

2006-03-27 Thread Jonathan Revusky
sier to get a competing project to give you their code and for that to be called Struts rather than do your own work. This whole community is such a travesty, it's beyond belief. Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ P.S. Larry, in your spoof below,

Re: I Apologize

2006-03-27 Thread Jonathan Revusky
In case people don't realize this immediately, I didn't write this. jonathan revusky wrote: I just wanted to apologize to everyone for my arrogant behavior recently. I do understand that Struts isn't so bad. Times have been tough for me lately and I think I acted out on this

Re: maintaining human standards [was: has struts reached the saturation]

2006-03-27 Thread Jonathan Revusky
it was. Sh*t, maybe I was mistaken. :-( But if this is just like the corporate environment and we're not getting paid to be here, then what are we doing here? Is this just masochism? Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ Hey Nony Moose wrot

I Apologize

2006-03-27 Thread jonathan revusky
I just wanted to apologize to everyone for my arrogant behavior recently. I do understand that Struts isn't so bad. Times have been tough for me lately and I think I acted out on this list because of it. None of the girls ever spoke to me in high school and the jocks would always beat me up and

Re: maintaining human standards [was Re: [FRIDAY] Re: has struts reached the saturation]

2006-03-27 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Or did you all escape off the pages of a comic book or something? You don't quite seem 3-dimensional.... Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ P.S. Larry, why did Struts development stagnate? Larry On 3/27/06, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: maintaining human standards [was Re: [FRIDAY] Re: has struts reached the saturation]

2006-03-27 Thread Jonathan Revusky
wrote. Amazingly, some people still do. But yes, I think it is only fair to disclose the above things, so that people can make the right technical decisions. Regards, Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ On 3/27/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL

Re: maintaining human standards [was Re: [FRIDAY] Re: has struts reached the saturation]

2006-03-27 Thread Jonathan Revusky
at FreeMarker is the default view technology for WebWork 2.2. Well, FreeMarker has a license that is basically the same BSD-style license that ASF uses. There is no requirement there for anybody who uses this work to share my political views. Actually, they don't even have to lik

Re: [FRIDAY] Re: has struts reached the saturation

2006-03-27 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Emmanouil Batsis wrote: Jonathan Revusky wrote: Struts has also fallen further and further behind technically in its space. (This has what has led to the Webwork merger so that the "Struts umbrella" could offer something reasonably up-to-date.) [Note: This is not a reply t

Re: xslt

2006-03-26 Thread Jonathan Revusky
r-side technology though. You could check out: http://freemarker.org/docs/xgui.html Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ I use struts 1.1 I tryed incorporating stxx, but this limits the use of RequestProcessor that I use in the application. I know

Re: Why did Struts development stagnate?

2006-03-26 Thread Jonathan Revusky
ould at least go use Webwork, which is something technically superior with the same basic approach. But Webwork has now been swallowed by Struts in a very anti-darwinian "survival of the lamest" sort of mechanism. I find this quite troubling. Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, F

Re: Why did Struts development stagnate?

2006-03-26 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Craig McClanahan wrote: On 3/25/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Craig McClanahan wrote: On 3/25/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The question is, at the very least, broadly on-topic. This interpretation is wildly out of sync with the formal

Re: Wizards in Struts

2006-03-25 Thread Jonathan Revusky
atest version uses Struts EventActionDispatcher from Struts 1.2.9. Frankly, I doubt that Patrick was saying that you flat out couldn't do this kind of thing with Struts or Webwork. I would interpret what he said as meaning that the same thing using JSF, say, might be more elegant/mai

Re: Why did Struts development stagnate?

2006-03-25 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Craig McClanahan wrote: On 3/25/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The question is, at the very least, broadly on-topic. This interpretation is wildly out of sync with the formal description of this mailing list's purpose[1], quoted below: Subscribe to t

Re: [FRIDAY] Re: has struts reached the saturation

2006-03-25 Thread Jonathan Revusky
everybody and see how they react. :-) So now I am asking you... :-) Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ --- "Frank W. Zammetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Craig McClanahan wrote: No matter where the conversation develop

Why did Struts development stagnate?

2006-03-25 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Craig McClanahan wrote: On 3/25/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mark Lowe wrote: Look.. You've been invited to post your thoughts about the way that apache do stuff, to a more appropiate audience than a bunch of half-wit struts users like me.. Mark, I was in

Re: [FRIDAY] Re: has struts reached the saturation

2006-03-25 Thread Jonathan Revusky
d again, I will be fascinated to know why you think your behavior in butting into a conversation in which you were not a participant is at all acceptable. Maybe you should step back and think about this a bit. Regards, Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org

Re: [FRIDAY] Re: has struts reached the saturation

2006-03-25 Thread Jonathan Revusky
don't see any reason for these people to refuse to answer it. It's a natural question when people insist that their approach to project management is beyond reproach. Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/

Re: [FRIDAY] Re: has struts reached the saturation

2006-03-25 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Dave Newton wrote: Jonathan Revusky wrote: I have no publicly-accessible open-source projects. If I did, I would not give commit access to anybody that asked for it, because I do not have the time to review the contributions of others and do not trust J. Random Coder enough to assume that

Re: [FRIDAY] Re: has struts reached the saturation

2006-03-25 Thread Jonathan Revusky
day-job and finding it quite frustrating. If Howard had had the choice, he surely would have used Tapestry. Anyway, you really ought to answer the question I posed earlier. Why, in your opinion, did Struts development stagnate? Surely you have thought about this Regards, Jonathan Revusky --

Re: [FRIDAY] Re: has struts reached the saturation

2006-03-24 Thread Jonathan Revusky
cal stagnation, but I strongly suspect there is. In any case, it is not a subject of legitimate debate at this point that progress on the Struts framework stagnated. If you guys were doing everything right, then what is your explanation for that? Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, Free

Re: [FRIDAY] Re: has struts reached the saturation

2006-03-24 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Dave Newton wrote: Jonathan Revusky wrote: I just visited the above link and read the article and I don't see how this can be presented as evidence against a more open collaborative model. Basically it's the story of a bug. Somebody made a mistake. People will make mistakes regardles

Re: [FRIDAY] Re: has struts reached the saturation

2006-03-24 Thread Jonathan Revusky
actually looks at it... :-) Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ FreeMarker group blog, http://freemarker.blogspot.com/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [FRIDAY] Re: has struts reached the saturation

2006-03-24 Thread Jonathan Revusky
s not as if you have so much to lose. Thanks for the advice. We should implement this new process right away. Tell me, does the same old wine in a new bottle taste any different? Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ FreeMarker g

Re: Struts Tutorial

2006-03-24 Thread Jonathan Revusky
ts Action 2) make extensive use of FreeMarker, which is largely (but not exclusively) my work at this point. Webwork and FreeMarker are separate projects. Well, in short, none of what you have said in this message I am replying to rings true to me. Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, Fre

Re: [FRIDAY] Re: has struts reached the saturation

2006-03-24 Thread Jonathan Revusky
committers would be reviewed. In principle, a bug like the one described in that article would be caught at that point. But another point about this is that having more people in the code could decrease the mean life expectancy of such bugs because of the phenomenon of more eyeballs. Jonathan R

Re: [OT]

2006-03-24 Thread Jonathan Revusky
s a Collection objection. (And your own custom objects as long as they implement java.util.Iterable.) HTH, Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ Regards Neil Meyer -Original Message- From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 March 2

Re: Consequences of open commit privileges (was: has struts reached the saturation)

2006-03-23 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Michael Jouravlev wrote: On 3/23/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In order to be able to offer something reasonably state of the art, the Struts community is basically abandoning the Struts 1.x codebase and inviting the Webwork people in. The Webwork 2.2 codebase the

Re: [FRIDAY] Re: has struts reached the saturation

2006-03-23 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Dave Newton wrote: Jonathan Revusky wrote: I already am spending too much time on this [...] Agreed. 2. I know that there is significant animosity towards me here [...] My animosity towards you is from years ago, actually; I remember that vaguely, yes. Still feeling animosity over

Re: It's about basic human standards of behavior to some extent

2006-03-23 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Dave Newton wrote: Jonathan Revusky wrote: Maybe that's what you meant to say but you didn't have the intestinal fortitude to say it so you posted the asinine stuff about a patch. Oooo! Me! Me! Pick me! Put up or shut up! I'm leaning towards the "shut up" mys

Re: [FRIDAY] Re: has struts reached the saturation

2006-03-23 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Dave Newton wrote: Jonathan Revusky wrote: As regards insults, there is a difference of perspective here. My own feeling is that in all of my posts I have exercised a great degree of self-restraint. Unless you count being able to state your view concisely. There are 2 basic reasons that

Re: Consequences of open commit privileges (was: has struts reached the saturation)

2006-03-23 Thread Jonathan Revusky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Revusky wrote: George Dinwiddie wrote: Scott Adams has made his fortune displaying the cynical view of managers that you describe. Indeed, from the point of view of the technical staff or others with limited access to those managers, it often looks like

It's about basic human standards of behavior to some extent

2006-03-23 Thread Jonathan Revusky
(and your buddies) off the hook. "This guy just doesn't get it so we can shut our ears to whatever he's saying." Fine, live in your own masturbatory reality. Fine, Everybody visits struts.apache.org and understands immediately what struts i

Re: [FRIDAY] Re: has struts reached the saturation

2006-03-23 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Do you think I'm wrong about this? Whether you do or not, should people who offer their opinion in good faith be subjected to this kind of lame, moronic sarcasm? To me, this just doesn't seem like adult behavior. Regards, Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project

Re: [FRIDAY] Re: has struts reached the saturation

2006-03-23 Thread Jonathan Revusky
er similar comments? If you request that I refrain from further such criticism, I will respect your request. Regards, Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ FreeMarker group blog, http://freemarker.blogspot.com/ Niall ---

Re: [FRIDAY] Re: has struts reached the saturation

2006-03-23 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Henri Yandell wrote: On 3/22/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Henri Yandell wrote: foo.apache.org maps to a PMC, which maps to a coding community, not to a codebase. Henri, I feel I should give you a bit of end-user feedback. I am not active in any apache.org project

Re: [FRIDAY] Re: has struts reached the saturation

2006-03-22 Thread Jonathan Revusky
one. Tapestry and MyFaces are not developed by the same community, and shouldn't be unless the communities show significant overlap. It's that simple :) Oh, that's a relief. It only *looks* complicated. :-) Regards, Jonathan Revus

Re: Consequences of open commit privileges (was: has struts reached the saturation)

2006-03-22 Thread Jonathan Revusky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Revusky wrote: First of all, pPeople seem to be addressing things I never said. For example, I don't think I ever said that people should be allowed to commit _anonymously_. I simply said that I believed you could be quite liberal about granting c

Re: Consequences of open commit privileges (was: has struts reached the saturation)

2006-03-21 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Michael Jouravlev wrote: On 3/21/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Jouravlev wrote: On 3/21/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consider the C2 Wiki and Wikipedia as analogies. Yes, it's easy to delet

Re: Consequences of open commit privileges (was: has struts reached the saturation)

2006-03-21 Thread Jonathan Revusky
n. The Chair/VP must tender a status report to the board on at least a quarterly basis, to be sure the project remains vital and collaborative. For more about how the ASF (and by extension Apache Struts) works, see * http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html You keep pointing peo

Re: Consequences of open commit privileges (was: has struts reached the saturation)

2006-03-21 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Michael Jouravlev wrote: On 3/21/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consider the C2 Wiki and Wikipedia as analogies. Yes, it's easy to delete obviously false information. It's just as easy to reintroduce it. Keeping the worst of

Re: Consequences of open commit privileges (was: has struts reached the saturation)

2006-03-21 Thread Jonathan Revusky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Revusky wrote: I revert to my statement that a version repository makes it quite easy to restore the code to any point it was at in the past. In any case, consider some potential bad consequence of letting just about anybody commit: 1. On occasion

Re: has struts reached the saturation

2006-03-21 Thread Jonathan Revusky
urpose? As for people saying this shouldn't be discussed, it is not the ostensible topic of this list, but the discussion developed here. The people now complaining about this thread, it's not clear what their grievance is... If somebody is not interested, they don't ha

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