Re: [VOTE] Graduate Apache VXQuery from the Incubator
+1 (non-binding) On 7/6/14, 12:24 AM, Till Westmann wrote: Hi, the Apache VXQuery podling has been active for a while [1] and its community agrees that it is ready to graduate from the incubator to be TLP. The podling has a relatively small but stable community and it has demonstrated its ability to add committers (2 so far) and to create apache releases (also 2 so far, see also [2]). The podling's community passed a supporting vote with 8 +1 votes, 2 of those were from the podling's mentors Ant Elder and Marvin Humphrey [3]. The proposed board resolution is attached. Please vote if the Apache Incubator PMC should recommend the creation of the Apache VXQuery project to the Board. [ ] +1 Recommend the creation of the Apache VXQuery project. [ ] 0 Don't care. [ ] -1 The Apache VXQuery podling is not ready to graduate because ... Thanks for your VOTE, Till (on behalf of the Apache VXQuery PPMC). [1] https://whimsy.apache.org/incubator/podlings/by-age [2] http://incubator.apache.org/projects/vxquery.html [3] http://s.apache.org/vxquery-graduation-vote-result -- Proposed Board Resolution: Establish the Apache VXQuery Project WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to providing an implementation of a parallel XML Query processor. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache VXQuery Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache VXQuery Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to providing an implementation of a parallel XML Query processor; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, VXQuery" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache VXQuery Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache VXQuery Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache VXQuery Project: Vinayak Borkar (vin...@apache.org) Till Westmann (til...@apache.org) Preston Carman (pre...@apache.org) Steven Jacobs (sja...@apache.org) Michael Carey (dta...@apache.org) Ant Elder (ant...@apache.org) Cezar Andrei(cez...@apache.org) NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Till Westmann be appointed to the office of Vice President, VXQuery, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache VXQuery PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache VXQuery Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache VXQuery Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator VXQuery podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator VXQuery podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
[ANNOUNCE] Apache VXQuery 0.3-incubating released
The Apache VXQuery (incubating) Team is happy to announce the second release of Apache VXQuery, 0.3-incubating. Apache VXQuery will be a standards compliant XML Query processor implemented in Java. The focus is on the evaluation of queries on large amounts of XML data. Specifically the goal is to evaluate queries on large collections of relatively small XML documents. To achieve this queries are evaluated on a cluster of shared nothing machines. More information about the project can be found at http://incubator.apache.org/vxquery/ The release is available at http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/vxquery/ and the sha1 checksum for apache-vxquery-0.3-incubating-source-release.zip is ba9b2d5c886584c604652b24a505ea2d76231964 The Apache VXQuery Team would like to hear from you and welcomes your comments and contributions. Thanks The Apache VXQuery Team -- Apache VXQuery is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Apache Incubator PMC. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
[RESULT][VOTE] Release Apache VXQuery Incubating 0.3 (RC2)
Hi, After having been open for over 72 hours, the vote for releasing Apache VXQuery Incubating 0.3 (RC2) passes the IPMC voting process with 4 binding +1s and no 0 or -1s. Binding votes: Ant Elder Marvin Humphrey Justin Mclean Till Westmann The voting thread on vxquery-dev passed can be found at [1]. The voting thread on general@incubator can be found at [2]. Thanks for voting, Vinayak [1] https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-vxquery-dev/201404.mbox/ajax/%3CCAJO%2BUbvRNuG_7fhDsdar%2BGrFQYH--JVgwsQ4HYRv5r5HwEkr1w%40mail.gmail.com%3E [2] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201404.mbox/ajax/%3C4D3105D7-465B-4970-A7BF-5109DA2EF201%40classsoftware.com%3E - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
[VOTE] Release Apache VXQuery Incubating 0.3 (RC2)
Please verify and vote on the second release candidate for our second release apache-vxquery-0.3-incubating. The tag to be voted on is: apache-vxquery-0.3-incubating in our git repository at: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-vxquery.git Here is a browser-friendly link to the tag's contents for your convenience: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-vxquery.git;a=tree;h=9c1f30309d5d3d3c69a64364dd61eb22e7d00a2e;hb=8bcba7bf971f183e009ecac45a268d51abaa6e99 The artifact, signature, md5, and sha1 are at: http://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachevxquery-1004/org/apache/vxquery/apache-vxquery/0.3-incubating/apache-vxquery-0.3-incubating-source-release.zip http://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachevxquery-1004/org/apache/vxquery/apache-vxquery/0.3-incubating/apache-vxquery-0.3-incubating-source-release.zip.asc http://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachevxquery-1004/org/apache/vxquery/apache-vxquery/0.3-incubating/apache-vxquery-0.3-incubating-source-release.zip.md5 http://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachevxquery-1004/org/apache/vxquery/apache-vxquery/0.3-incubating/apache-vxquery-0.3-incubating-source-release.zip.sha1 MD5: 4688ac18564cd4c5ff580eecec93bdb1 SHA1: ba9b2d5c886584c604652b24a505ea2d76231964 The RAT report is at: http://people.apache.org/~vinayakb/apache-vxquery-0.3-incubating/rat.txt Please note that the RAT report excludes the following: .gitignore .rat-excludes ExpectedTestResults xqts.txt since these files do not work well with the Apache header. The KEYS file containing the PGP keys used to sign the release can currently be found at https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/vxquery/KEYS The vote on vxquery-dev passed [1] (thread [2]) with +1 (binding) Ant Elder (IPMC) Marvin Humphrey (IPMC) Till Westmann (IPMC) -1 none Please vote [ ] +1 release this package as apache-vxquery-0.3-incubating [ ] -1 do not release this package because ... [1] https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-vxquery-dev/201404.mbox/ajax/%3C534DB9F4.8050803%40gmail.com%3E [2] https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-vxquery-dev/201404.mbox/ajax/%3CCAJO%2BUbvRNuG_7fhDsdar%2BGrFQYH--JVgwsQ4HYRv5r5HwEkr1w%40mail.gmail.com%3E - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [VOTE] Release Apache VXQuery Incubating 0.2 (RC4)
Marvin, Thanks a ton for this vote. Now we have 3 +1s from IPMC members as summarized below: +1 (binding) Jochen Wiedmann Ant Elder Marvin Humphrey -1 none Vinayak On 11/9/13, 9:08 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Till wrote: [ ] +1 release this package as apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating [ ] -1 do not release this package because ... `LICENSE` looks good. Appropriate pointer to ODC-BY. `NOTICE` looks good. Copyright up to date. Appropriate ASF citation. Copyright for Black Titan software looks appropriate (though of course I did not witness the commit which moved it there). RAT report is clean. (Thanks for providing it!) The only archive file is `dblp.xml.gz`. Though this is a binary file, it's just compressed XML so it's still essentially "source". No objection from me with regards to the ODC-BY 1.0 licensing -- see LEGAL-182. The `KEYS` file should be removed from the source tree. Not a blocker. `DISCLAIMER` is present. It notes that the sponsor is the XMLBeans PMC, which is interesting because XMLBeans is headed to the Attic[1]. Not something that has to be resolved for the release, though IMO. Except for the file `DEPENDENCIES`, the archive contents matches the release tag[2]. All dependencies have compatible licensing. Sums and sigs look good[3]. +1 (binding) Cheers, Marvin Humphrey [1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2013/board_minutes_2013_07_17.txt [2] marvin@knut:~/Desktop/vxquery $ diff -ur apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating export_from_svn_tag/ Only in apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating: DEPENDENCIES marvin@knut:~/Desktop/vxquery $ [3] marvin@knut:~/Desktop/vxquery $ gpg --verify apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip.asc gpg: Signature made Thu Oct 3 10:19:23 2013 PDT using RSA key ID BAED10BC gpg: Good signature from "Till Westmann (CODE SIGNING KEY) " gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature! gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner. Primary key fingerprint: 9BDA F9FB A128 CAD5 0B90 33FF 2501 E46B BAED 10BC marvin@knut:~/Desktop/vxquery $ shasum apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip f07fe151ddea24457c6497a1abd48528f9c02462 apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip marvin@knut:~/Desktop/vxquery $ cat apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip.sha1 f07fe151ddea24457c6497a1abd48528f9c02462marvin@knut:~/Desktop/vxquery $ md5 marvin@knut:~/Desktop/vxquery $ md5 apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip MD5 (apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip) = 381c212e2573b467855aa682a5e3ab22 marvin@knut:~/Desktop/vxquery $ cat apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip.md5 381c212e2573b467855aa682a5e3ab22marvin@knut:~/Desktop/vxquery $ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [DISCUSS] Release Apache VXQuery Incubating 0.2 (RC4)
Hi Marvin, It has now been close to a month since my email to which you replied. We were short by one vote then and we are short by one vote today. In the meantime there were issues raised regarding the distribution of ODC-BY content which was discussed on LEGAL-182 as you know and appears to have reached "lazy consensus" that it is OK for VXQuery to distribute the content about a week and a half ago. However, we are still short one vote and cannot release. At this time, I am not really sure what it is that the Incubator expects from the podling to make this release happen. It would be great if you have any ideas that could help us get this release out. Thanks, Vinayak On 10/16/13 7:13 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: Hi Vinayak, On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: It has been over 72 hours since the vote for the first VXQuery release has been open, and we still do not have the one vote we need from an IPMC member. I am unsure how this process works. For the last four months, I've been tracking the elapsed time between when a release candidate is published on a podling dev list and the arrival of the third IPMC +1 vote. These stats are going into the Incubator's monthly report to the Board. The average is roughly a week. However, it's not unusual for some release votes to take longer. One of the risk factors associated with long VOTE times is incubating for a long time (as VXQuery has), because Mentors tend to drift away and leave a podling with insufficient active IPMC representation[1]. Some VOTEs are outliers, though. ODF Toolkit's last release waited 20 days; the recent VOTE for Allura's first incubating release stayed open for several weeks awaiting IPMC approval before the release candidate was finally withdrawn. (We've yet to see a new one.) A number of us have been trying to address the structural flaws in the Incubator for several years now, but it is challenging to strike a balance between granting podlings more autonomy and exercising our oversight responsibilities -- so most proposals do not achieve consensus. Personally, I now try to spend my cycles approaching the problem from another angle, by working on ways to lower the cost of reviewing releases. Until a few weeks ago, we heard from quite a few vocal IPMC members about how the project did not deserve to remain in incubation We don't want podlings to "remain in incubation" indefinitely -- we want them to either graduate, or retire. Please take my followup of the VXQuery July report in that context -- and please understand that there's nothing wrong with retiring, since all software has a life cycle and sometimes it's better for the individual members of the community to move on to other interests. Nevertheless, graduation is of course the desired outcome every time a podling enters incubation and it is great to see VXQuery's increased activity. because it was unable to make a release. Apache projects release. Communities which don't release don't belong here. Should VXQuery graduate and become a TLP, you will be expected to keep making releases according to Apache guidelines -- and demonstrating that the community is capable of making such releases is a crucial test. Now there is an attempt at a release that has been voted in by the PPMC, but there is complete radio silence on the vote. Be persistent and polite and eventually you will break through. If you are unlucky enough to duplicate Allura's experience, you can at least rest assured that the Board is going to hear about it. I appeal to the same people who expressed their opinions a few weeks ago to at least look at the release we have created and vote either for or against it. I rarely perform freelance release reviews any more because the current system infuriates me and I do not wish to spend my volunteer time perpetuating it. However, I'm pleased that the opportunity arose to contribute via the ODC-BY licencing question. Good luck, Marvin Humphrey [1] For more thoughts on the subject of Mentor attrition, see <http://markmail.org/message/4tqu7xddpoxdsuuz>. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [DISCUSS] Release Apache VXQuery Incubating 0.2 (RC4)
Hi Marvin, Thanks for your email. I was unaware that votes are allowed to take a long time. My understanding (albeit flawed, I guess) was that votes are allowed to be outstanding for only 72 hours. Hence my email. I do agree that retirement is a valid part of a software system's lifecycle. However, in the case of VXQuery the committers have quite some juice left in them to make more progress at this time. In fact a lot more work gets done on the project than what appears on "visible" forums like mailing lists. We use IM and Skype much more than we use mailing lists. The whole release process has been pretty frustrating due to a combination of two orthogonal factors that have just been a drain on the team. 1. While there are guidelines that need to be adhered to by a release, we were struggling for a long time to automate the release process so that it produced all the artifacts that were needed to satisfy Apache's requirements. Instead of all the guidelines as the primary pointer to how releases should be made, having one link to the parent pom that can be inherited by a Maven-driven Java project that does all the heavy lifting of creating a release that meets Apache guildelines would have got us to a release a year ago. We finally found this POM by looking at the Helix project that had made a successful release. 2. It feels that the whole voting process around releases is very ad-hoc and not very efficient. In fact at times it appears very subjective. As an example, look at the voting process around the RCs for VXQuery. All the issues raised around RC_i (i > 1) have been true of the first RC created. So clearly all the issues could have been raised at one go with RC1 and we could have been done with this whole process months ago. If the Incubator is serious about projects creating releases and going through the "process", I think it is only fair to the projects that the IPMC tightens the review process so that things get done more efficiently. I would like to see some accountability with the IPMC regarding the review process when it comes to voting down an RC when the same issue was true of a previous RC and could have been pointed out before. Thanks for the ODC-BY comment. I do hope that issue is resolved quickly so we can create a successful release. Thanks, Vinayak On 10/16/13 7:13 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: Hi Vinayak, On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: It has been over 72 hours since the vote for the first VXQuery release has been open, and we still do not have the one vote we need from an IPMC member. I am unsure how this process works. For the last four months, I've been tracking the elapsed time between when a release candidate is published on a podling dev list and the arrival of the third IPMC +1 vote. These stats are going into the Incubator's monthly report to the Board. The average is roughly a week. However, it's not unusual for some release votes to take longer. One of the risk factors associated with long VOTE times is incubating for a long time (as VXQuery has), because Mentors tend to drift away and leave a podling with insufficient active IPMC representation[1]. Some VOTEs are outliers, though. ODF Toolkit's last release waited 20 days; the recent VOTE for Allura's first incubating release stayed open for several weeks awaiting IPMC approval before the release candidate was finally withdrawn. (We've yet to see a new one.) A number of us have been trying to address the structural flaws in the Incubator for several years now, but it is challenging to strike a balance between granting podlings more autonomy and exercising our oversight responsibilities -- so most proposals do not achieve consensus. Personally, I now try to spend my cycles approaching the problem from another angle, by working on ways to lower the cost of reviewing releases. Until a few weeks ago, we heard from quite a few vocal IPMC members about how the project did not deserve to remain in incubation We don't want podlings to "remain in incubation" indefinitely -- we want them to either graduate, or retire. Please take my followup of the VXQuery July report in that context -- and please understand that there's nothing wrong with retiring, since all software has a life cycle and sometimes it's better for the individual members of the community to move on to other interests. Nevertheless, graduation is of course the desired outcome every time a podling enters incubation and it is great to see VXQuery's increased activity. because it was unable to make a release. Apache projects release. Communities which don't release don't belong here. Should VXQuery graduate and become a TLP, you will be expected to keep making releases according to Apache guidelines -- and demonstrating that the community is capable of making such releases is
Re: [VOTE] Release Apache VXQuery Incubating 0.2 (RC4)
Hi Dave, Before I can VOTE I have questions. (1) What is the following file? A apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating/vxquery-core/src/test/resources/documents/dblp.xml.gz Am I correct that this shows up in your LICENSE as: === The DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/) database in vxquery-core/src/test/resources/documents/dblp.xml.gz can be used under the terms and conditions of the Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0). The full ODC-BY 1.0 license text is avaialable at http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/ I don't see this license on http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html Can you show me a reference from the Legal Discuss list: http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-legal that puts this in Class A? I think that this is required otherwise the project will need to find a better way of packaging this source dependency. The file is a standard XML file that is used for unit testing the parsing capabilities of the software. It is not critical to the release itself. Just to confirm, if there is no such mention on the mailing lists, do we have to create a new release without this dependency? Thanks, Vinayak (2) Does the podling intend in this VOTE to authorize the release of the convenience binary artifacts that are also in the directory? I see from discussions on the project that this is NOT intended. At least that is how I view this email. [2] [2] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-vxquery-dev/201310.mbox/%3C1591541861.240305.1381162348269.open-xchange%40email.1und1.de%3E Regards, Dave On Oct 7, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Till wrote: Please verify and vote on the fourth release candidate for our first release apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating. The tag to be voted on is https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/vxquery/tags/apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating/ at revision 1528941. The artifacts, signatures, md5, and sha1 are at: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachevxquery-128/org/apache/vxquery/apache-vxquery/0.2-incubating/apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachevxquery-128/org/apache/vxquery/apache-vxquery/0.2-incubating/apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip.asc https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachevxquery-128/org/apache/vxquery/apache-vxquery/0.2-incubating/apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip.md5 https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachevxquery-128/org/apache/vxquery/apache-vxquery/0.2-incubating/apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip.sha1 MD5: 381c212e2573b467855aa682a5e3ab22 SHA1: f07fe151ddea24457c6497a1abd48528f9c02462 The RAT report is at: http://people.apache.org/~tillw/apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating/rat-report.txt and the KEYS file containing the PGP keys used to sign the release can currently be found at https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/vxquery/KEYS The vote on vxquery-dev passed [1] with +1 (binding) Vinayak Borkar Cezar Andrei Jochen Wiedmann (IPMC) Ant Elder (IPMC) -1 none Please vote [ ] +1 release this package as apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating [ ] -1 do not release this package because ... Thanks, Till [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-vxquery-dev/201310.mbox/%3C511917E5-9FC9-4B6C-9DE3-CF07EB4B69AB%40westmann.org%3E - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [VOTE] Release Apache VXQuery Incubating 0.2 (RC4)
Guys, It has been over 72 hours since the vote for the first VXQuery release has been open, and we still do not have the one vote we need from an IPMC member. I am unsure how this process works. Until a few weeks ago, we heard from quite a few vocal IPMC members about how the project did not deserve to remain in incubation because it was unable to make a release. Now there is an attempt at a release that has been voted in by the PPMC, but there is complete radio silence on the vote. I appeal to the same people who expressed their opinions a few weeks ago to at least look at the release we have created and vote either for or against it. Thanks, Vinayak On 10/9/13 6:30 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: You have two IPMC votes. You need one more IPMC vote to pass. On Oct 8, 2013, at 12:28 PM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: Dear general@, A few weeks ago, there were concerns raised about the VXQuery project's ability to make releases. We now have an RC that has been voted for by the PPMC and is up for a vote with the IPMC. I just wanted to take this opportunity to encourage the IPMC to cast a vote to move the process along. On a related note, do the IPMC members who are also part of the PPMC need to vote again on this thread to count towards the three IPMC votes? Thanks, Vinayak On 10/7/13 8:59 AM, Till wrote: Please verify and vote on the fourth release candidate for our first release apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating. The tag to be voted on is https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/vxquery/tags/apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating/ at revision 1528941. The artifacts, signatures, md5, and sha1 are at: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachevxquery-128/org/apache/vxquery/apache-vxquery/0.2-incubating/apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachevxquery-128/org/apache/vxquery/apache-vxquery/0.2-incubating/apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip.asc https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachevxquery-128/org/apache/vxquery/apache-vxquery/0.2-incubating/apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip.md5 https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachevxquery-128/org/apache/vxquery/apache-vxquery/0.2-incubating/apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip.sha1 MD5: 381c212e2573b467855aa682a5e3ab22 SHA1: f07fe151ddea24457c6497a1abd48528f9c02462 The RAT report is at: http://people.apache.org/~tillw/apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating/rat-report.txt and the KEYS file containing the PGP keys used to sign the release can currently be found at https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/vxquery/KEYS The vote on vxquery-dev passed [1] with +1 (binding) Vinayak Borkar Cezar Andrei Jochen Wiedmann (IPMC) Ant Elder (IPMC) -1 none Please vote [ ] +1 release this package as apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating [ ] -1 do not release this package because ... Thanks, Till [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-vxquery-dev/201310.mbox/%3C511917E5-9FC9-4B6C-9DE3-CF07EB4B69AB%40westmann.org%3E - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [VOTE] Release Apache VXQuery Incubating 0.2 (RC4)
Dear general@, A few weeks ago, there were concerns raised about the VXQuery project's ability to make releases. We now have an RC that has been voted for by the PPMC and is up for a vote with the IPMC. I just wanted to take this opportunity to encourage the IPMC to cast a vote to move the process along. On a related note, do the IPMC members who are also part of the PPMC need to vote again on this thread to count towards the three IPMC votes? Thanks, Vinayak On 10/7/13 8:59 AM, Till wrote: Please verify and vote on the fourth release candidate for our first release apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating. The tag to be voted on is https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/vxquery/tags/apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating/ at revision 1528941. The artifacts, signatures, md5, and sha1 are at: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachevxquery-128/org/apache/vxquery/apache-vxquery/0.2-incubating/apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachevxquery-128/org/apache/vxquery/apache-vxquery/0.2-incubating/apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip.asc https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachevxquery-128/org/apache/vxquery/apache-vxquery/0.2-incubating/apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip.md5 https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachevxquery-128/org/apache/vxquery/apache-vxquery/0.2-incubating/apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip.sha1 MD5: 381c212e2573b467855aa682a5e3ab22 SHA1: f07fe151ddea24457c6497a1abd48528f9c02462 The RAT report is at: http://people.apache.org/~tillw/apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating/rat-report.txt and the KEYS file containing the PGP keys used to sign the release can currently be found at https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/vxquery/KEYS The vote on vxquery-dev passed [1] with +1 (binding) Vinayak Borkar Cezar Andrei Jochen Wiedmann (IPMC) Ant Elder (IPMC) -1 none Please vote [ ] +1 release this package as apache-vxquery-0.2-incubating [ ] -1 do not release this package because ... Thanks, Till [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-vxquery-dev/201310.mbox/%3C511917E5-9FC9-4B6C-9DE3-CF07EB4B69AB%40westmann.org%3E - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
VXQuery needs some mentoring
Dear Incubator, The VXQuery podling is currently stalled at being able to add a new committer who has undergone a vote with all existing committers in favor and the individual has accepted to join the community. However, we are currently stuck at being able to make progress on the administrative part of making this person a full committer. Any help from anybody volunteering to perform the duties of a mentor will be appreciated. We are also working on getting a release done and would need some help there too. Please help. Thanks, Vinayak - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: Followup to VXQuery July 2013 report
Hi Dave, I apologize if the answer you got to your question about VXQuery usage to be clueless and abstract. Since we did not see any feedback to the response to your question, the conclusion was that you were satisfied with the answer. The VXQuery team would have and still would appreciate any constructive ideas you might have that can help the project both from a technical as well as a process point of view. Thanks, Vinayak On 9/6/13 4:43 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: Hi Ant, I was the shepherd on VXQuery in their last reporting period. I really don't feel like anything is really happening in the project, at least not anywhere that is visible. I even asked a technical question about one of their suggested use cases - organize and accessing Edgar documents. A source I have actually worked with. Company data is something I've been around all my life and I am in my 50s. I grew up around company data since my father was a Finance Professor at the University of Chicago and one of the founders of CRSP. My development career also involves managing and analyzing company data. Their answer was not clueful and very abstract. They have an idea for a query engine without any idea how to get data into the engine. Anyone with a clue would choose to use Apache Solr, Lucene, or something in the Hadoop cluster of projects over VXQuery. However if you think that a viable community and project is happening give it a try. But you should also look back to over a year ago when they got another chance. How many another chances and mentor reboots should we give a project? Regards, Dave On Sep 5, 2013, at 7:58 AM, ant elder wrote: I don't see the need or point in being so draconian with the poddling especially given its history, so if you really do want to initiate retirement discussions if they've not released by their next report (which is just a few weeks away right?) I'll be voting against it and will volunteer to be a mentor to help try to keep them alive if they want to keep trying. ...ant On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:01 AM, ant elder wrote: To me VXQuery looks like an example of a project being let down by the Incubator PMC. Regardless, they will have to overcome their challenges themselves. Similarly with the no releases in 4 years - they've attempted to release twice and both times it stalled getting the votes, what they need are mentors who can show them whats necessary to push releases and voting through the Incubator. VXQuery received guidance on pushing releases back in July[1]. It seems to have had no effect[2]. The Incubator is not a hosting service. If VXQuery wants to be part of Apache, they must release. Marvin Humphrey [1] http://s.apache.org/9Sg [2] http://s.apache.org/rkn - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: VXQuery: A Mentor's View
The VXQuery PPMC just concluded a vote to add Jochen Wiedmann as a mentor for the VXQuery project. The vote passed with the whole PPMC in favor of the addition. When I went to add Jochen to the project status page, I noticed that he is already listed as a mentor. Now I guess its official that Jochen is a mentor for the VXQuery project. Thanks for the support, Vinayak On 7/16/12 4:23 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: Great! What is the process to officially make you a mentor? A mentor doesn't have more formal powers than any IPMC member but he is a member of the PPMC, so you can add him as a mentor as soon as you have consensus for that within VXQuery. Different podlings have measured that consensus in different ways, often lazy consensus is enough or then a formal vote is used. Once you've done that, simply inform the IPMC by updating your status page. BR, Jukka Zitting - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: VXQuery: A Mentor's View
Great! What is the process to officially make you a mentor? Thanks, Vinayak On 7/16/12 2:27 AM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Till Westmann wrote: if you could find time to do that, it would be great if you would come on board as a full-fledged mentor! That's always been my desire, and still is. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: VXQuery: A Mentor's View
Hi Matthew, Cezar was the original champion for the VXQuery project. Can he still be a mentor? Thanks, Vinayak On 7/9/12 7:27 PM, Franklin, Matthew B. wrote: I wanted to echo the recent thread regarding the need for additional mentorship for VXQuery. Cezar only needs to request IPMC membership to become a mentor; but event hen he would be the only mentor that I can find recent activity for. In addition to the need for mentors, there a couple of things that need attention: 1) The website does not follow branding guidelines and it looks like hrefs for images & CSS might be incorrect. 2) Someone needs to sign off on the report. I recommend Cezar do this after requesting IPMC membership. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Preston Carman as committer
Hi Jukka, Preston has accepted the invitation to be a committer. He would like "prestonc" as his username. His ICLA is on file already. Thanks, Vinayak On 7/3/12 2:11 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, [It's best to avoid cross-posting between private and public lists. Replying only on general@] On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: Here is the final vote tally. I am sorry to bother you again with this request. But in lieu of our mentors, can you or someone else in the IPMC please perform the process documented at [1] to add Preston as a committer? Sure, just let me know which username Preston wants once you've invited him and made sure he has a CLA on file. I can take care of making the account request for you. BR, Jukka Zitting - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Fwd: [VOTE][RESULT] Preston Carman as committer
Jukka, Here is the final vote tally. I am sorry to bother you again with this request. But in lieu of our mentors, can you or someone else in the IPMC please perform the process documented at [1] to add Preston as a committer? [1] http://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#newcommitter Thanks, Vinayak Original Message Subject: [VOTE][RESULT] Preston Carman as committer Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 01:47:47 -0700 From: Vinayak Borkar Reply-To: vxquery-priv...@incubator.apache.org To: vxquery-priv...@incubator.apache.org We started a vote to add Preston Carman as a committer to the VXQuery project. It has passed with the following results: From VXQuery PPMC: Cezar Andrei: +1 Vinayak Borkar: +1 Michael Carey: +1 Till Westmann: +1 From IPMC: Jukka Zitting: +1 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: VXQuery Mentors
Thanks Jukka. On 7/3/12 1:07 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, I already sent my +1, though it may be stuck in vxquery-private@ moderation queue. Anyway, here's another +1 to unblock you: +1 to grant VXQuery committership to Preston Carman BR, Jukka Zitting 3.7.2012 9.42 "Vinayak Borkar" kirjoitti: Thanks Jukka. Looking forward to your mail to vxquery-private with the +1 vote so that we can move forward the administrative tasks involved with making Preston a committer. On 7/2/12 3:03 PM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: We had started a vote (on 05/26/2012) to bring on board a new committer (Preston Carman) who has been submitting high-quality patches. While the vote got +1s from all the current VXQuery committers (four of us), we have not heard from any of our mentors. So the vote itself is stuck. I looked at the vote and the candidate and everything looks good to me, so I'll send my +1 to vxquery-private@ to close the loop. That'll be enough to make the vote pass as mentioned in [1]: "To be successful the vote requires at least one +1 from a podling mentor, or, if no mentors are available, from an Incubator PMC member." [1] http://incubator.apache.org/**guides/ppmc.html#Voting+in+a+** new+committer<http://incubator.apache.org/guides/ppmc.html#Voting+in+a+new+committer> I am not sure what we should do at this time. Any guidance will be appreciated. You'll need new mentors to help you through the rest of the incubation process. I notice one of your committers, Cezar Andrei, is an ASF member and the PMC chair of XMLBeans, so if he's interested I think he'd be a great candidate to take over at least some of the mentor tasks. Anyone else interested in helping VXQuery? BR, Jukka Zitting --**--**- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@incubator.**apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@incubator.apache.**org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: VXQuery Mentors
Thanks Jukka. Looking forward to your mail to vxquery-private with the +1 vote so that we can move forward the administrative tasks involved with making Preston a committer. On 7/2/12 3:03 PM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: We had started a vote (on 05/26/2012) to bring on board a new committer (Preston Carman) who has been submitting high-quality patches. While the vote got +1s from all the current VXQuery committers (four of us), we have not heard from any of our mentors. So the vote itself is stuck. I looked at the vote and the candidate and everything looks good to me, so I'll send my +1 to vxquery-private@ to close the loop. That'll be enough to make the vote pass as mentioned in [1]: "To be successful the vote requires at least one +1 from a podling mentor, or, if no mentors are available, from an Incubator PMC member." [1] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/ppmc.html#Voting+in+a+new+committer I am not sure what we should do at this time. Any guidance will be appreciated. You'll need new mentors to help you through the rest of the incubation process. I notice one of your committers, Cezar Andrei, is an ASF member and the PMC chair of XMLBeans, so if he's interested I think he'd be a great candidate to take over at least some of the mentor tasks. Anyone else interested in helping VXQuery? BR, Jukka Zitting - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
VXQuery Mentors
Hi Jukka, We had started a vote (on 05/26/2012) to bring on board a new committer (Preston Carman) who has been submitting high-quality patches. While the vote got +1s from all the current VXQuery committers (four of us), we have not heard from any of our mentors. So the vote itself is stuck. I am not sure what we should do at this time. Any guidance will be appreciated. Thanks, Vinayak - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: VXQuery status (Was: [Incubator Wiki] Update of "April2012" by TillWestmann)
Hi Jukka, We in the VXQuery trenches need some help with growing the community. We understand the technical aspects of implementing the XQuery engine, but need some guidance with community building. With respect to the system we are in a catch-22 situation. We feel that some part of the system needs to exist and work before we can bring on-board a community and we are not quite there. At the same time, we need pairs of hands to help build out that core part of the system that will attract a community. I do believe that the new focus on big-data will indeed attract a community once we have something up and running. On other issue is that the committers of VXQuery are working on this project out of personal interest and have no agency that is funding its development. As a result, we work on this after our day jobs and so progress is slow. My day-job is at a university where I meet students with various interests. The GSoC project proposals were done with the aim of using students for the summer (with funding by Google through GSoC), to work on bootstrapping the VXQuery project so it gets into a functional state. I do agree that GSoC is not our method to grow a community. Please advise. Thanks, Vinayak On 4/2/12 5:30 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, Thanks for the report, VXQuery! On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 5:26 AM, Apache Wiki wrote: + * change of the focus of the project (the previous focus was to be + flexible wrt the representation of the data model, the new focus + is parallel processing of large amounts of XML data) + * re-newed development activity I see a single "VXQuery focus" thread on vxquery-dev@ and a handful of related commits, but the activity on those seems rather to decline than increase over time. So looking at the project from the outside it unfortunately doesn't seem like the new focus is yet helping re-activate the project. Do you expect this to change over the next few months? Does VXQuery have concrete plans on how to drive the new focus forward? If yes, is help from the larger Incubator community or ComDev needed? + * 2 proposals for GSoC (1 person expressed interest in working on + VXQuery for GSoC) I'm concerned about starting a GSoC project on a codebase without an active community. GSoC students are supposed to be working with the community, not *be* the community. Have you talked about this with ComDev? PS. VXQuery has four mentors listed: Paul Fremantle, Sanjiva Weerawarana, Radu Preotiuc-Pietro, and Jochen Wiedmann. I only see Jochen interacting with the community on vxquery-dev@ over the past two years. Are the other mentors still actively following the project? BR, Jukka Zitting - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Apache VXQuery
Thanks Paul. My userid is vinayakb. Vinayak Paul Fremantle wrote: Thanks everyone. Here is the JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VXQUERY-1 Please can any committers who don't have a JIRA account create one and send me their userid. I will add you to the vxquery-developers group. Paul On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:01 AM, David Crossley wrote: Niclas Hedhman wrote: I suggest that the podling use Jira for tracking the start of a project... See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACE-1 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-1 for a reasonable template on what is needed. However please move sub-task #6 on those lists to be the first task, i.e. "Add project to Reporting Schedule" This is in line with the docs: http://incubator.apache.org/guides/mentor.html#Overview http://incubator.apache.org/clutch.html#steps -David - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Apache VXQuery
Paul, It is my understanding that all the committers have already sent in the CLAs. Can you please let me know if the icla.txt file indicates otherwise? Thanks, Vinayak Paul Fremantle wrote: Will all the proposed committers please make sure you have faxed or emailed the CLA http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas to the Secretary to ensure we can move forwards. Paul On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: Please add the current list of mentors here and at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/VXQueryProposal for reference. Done. Thanks, Vinayak - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Apache VXQuery
Thanks Paul, Looking forward to the incubation. Vinayak Paul Fremantle wrote: Congratulations. I am travelling so I can't do any project setup right now. I'll be able to get cracking on Thursday/Friday. Paul On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: Thanks Bertrand. This project has 6 +1 binding votes, 2 +1 non-binding votes, 0 -1 votes. The proposal has been on the voting thread for about 3 weeks. Can we now move to the next step to get the podling created? Thanks, Vinayak Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: Please add the current list of mentors here and at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/VXQueryProposal for reference. Done. Thanks - here's the list so that it also gets archived in this thread: Nominated Mentors Paul Fremantle [ASF member] Sanjiva Weerawarana [ASF Member] Radu Preotiuc-Pietro [Non ASF member] Jochen Wiedmann [Non ASF member] -Bertrand - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Apache VXQuery
Thanks Paul, Looking forward to incubation. Vinayak Paul Fremantle wrote: Congratulations. I am travelling so I can't do any project setup right now. I'll be able to get cracking on Thursday/Friday. Paul On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: Thanks Bertrand. This project has 6 +1 binding votes, 2 +1 non-binding votes, 0 -1 votes. The proposal has been on the voting thread for about 3 weeks. Can we now move to the next step to get the podling created? Thanks, Vinayak Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: Please add the current list of mentors here and at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/VXQueryProposal for reference. Done. Thanks - here's the list so that it also gets archived in this thread: Nominated Mentors Paul Fremantle [ASF member] Sanjiva Weerawarana [ASF Member] Radu Preotiuc-Pietro [Non ASF member] Jochen Wiedmann [Non ASF member] -Bertrand - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Apache VXQuery
Thanks Bertrand. This project has 6 +1 binding votes, 2 +1 non-binding votes, 0 -1 votes. The proposal has been on the voting thread for about 3 weeks. Can we now move to the next step to get the podling created? Thanks, Vinayak Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: Please add the current list of mentors here and at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/VXQueryProposal for reference. Done. Thanks - here's the list so that it also gets archived in this thread: Nominated Mentors Paul Fremantle [ASF member] Sanjiva Weerawarana [ASF Member] Radu Preotiuc-Pietro [Non ASF member] Jochen Wiedmann [Non ASF member] -Bertrand - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Apache VXQuery
Please add the current list of mentors here and at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/VXQueryProposal for reference. Done. Thanks, Vinayak - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: Incorrect use of "Sponsor".
However, you are allowed to have them on the page, just with a 'thanks to ...' , be sure that any external links like these use the 'nofollow' attribute as specified by the PRC (so as to not water down the value of the main ASF thanks page.) If you look at the Lucene Java page ( http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html ), I see a link to the book page without a nofollow. Is that allowed? Thanks, Vinayak - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Apache VXQuery
As far as the votes go, we have: +1 (binding) Paul Fremantle +1 (binding) Noel J. Bergman +1 (binding) Niclas Hedhman +1 (non binding) Mohammad Nour El-Din +1 (non binding) Edward J. Yoon +1 (binding) Kevan Miller: Conditional on adding a second mentor. -1 (binding) Bertrand Delacretaz: Conditionally willing to make it +1 on adding a Mentor Now that we have Paul and Sanjiva as mentors, I would request the conditional voters (Kevan and Bertrand) to please recast their votes. Thanks, Vinayak Niclas Hedhman wrote: With Sanjiva and Paul plus informal mentors I am willing to +1 a new vote... Cheers Niclas On Jul 4, 2009 10:03 AM, "Sanjiva Weerawarana" wrote: +1 and I'm willing to mentor. Sanjiva. On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: > Hello all, > > I would... -- Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. Founder, Director & Chief Scientist; Lanka Software Foundation; http://www.opensource.lk/ Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://www.wso2.com/ Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ Visiting Lecturer; University of Moratuwa; http://www.cse.mrt.ac.lk/ Blog: http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [PROPOSAL] VXQuery
Sanjiva, We are completely open to using any other schema model from any other project. So we could try the module from the WS project, if your experience shows that it is better. You are right in that all we need is a schema model. Thanks for offering to mentor. Vinayak Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: Yes it does- but for schema support, we actually have a more useful project called XMLSchema in the WS project. That's a clean model for XMLSchema that's used by a bunch of ASF projects and others. We tried (hard) to use the Xerces schema stuff when doing Axis2 (who wants to write a schema parser!) but it was not possible because it was innately tied to parsing XML and validation and not for general use as an XML parser. For XQuery, what is needed is a proper schema model and XMLSchema gives that. Anyway, I'm glad to see the StAX answer :). Sanjiva. On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: Sanjiva, The way the system is built, the data source (the place from where XML is brought into the system), is fully pluggable. In fact, currently the parser has been implemented using StAX (JSR 173). The XML snippets one sees in XQuery is not parsed using an XML parser. Instead we use JavaCC to do that. The mention of Xerces was specifically to implement schema support in VXQuery as per the typing requirements of the XQuery spec. Does that answer your question? Thanks, Vinayak Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: Vinayak, in some other mail you indicated that there's little code around yet. So ... Can we build this on top of StAX instead of Xerces (presumably SAX)? That allows a high performant impl on top of Axiom, which would be very useful for all projects that use Axiom (Axis2 & family, Synapse, Abdera, Tuscany (I think) etc.). The StAX impl will allow CXF also to make good use of this and should not affect the ability to build a DOM or DTM or any other model. I would also love to see the Axiom binding done as part of this project but that's not a requirement as that can be done externally. Hmm thinking a bit more I guess the use of Xerces is just for parsing the XQuery XML syntax bits right? You've obviously had to write a parser for the non-XML syntax bits (which is a lot)? So then this is really an easy request! Sanjiva. On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: Paul, Thank you for willing to be a mentor. I have added you as a mentor to the proposal at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/VXQueryProposal. What would be the best way to get more 1. mentors 2. feedback so we can move the proposal to a vote? Thanks, Vinayak Paul Fremantle wrote: Yes I am willing to be a mentor. Paul On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: Paul, Thank you for your interest in the VXQuery engine. We are looking for mentors for the project. Would you be willing to be a mentor? Thanks, Vinayak Paul Fremantle wrote: Synapse would also be interested in using the XQuery implementation! Thanks Paul On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: Hello, We wish to present a proposal to create a new project in the incubator called VXQuery. Please find below, the plain-text version of the proposal. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Vinayak VXQueryProposal Abstract Apache VXQuery is a language processor that implements the XML Query Language v1.0 standardized by the W3C. Proposal VXQuery (Versatile XQuery) will be a standards compliant XML Query processor implemented in Java. We believe that there exists a strong (and growing) need to process semi-structured data in many applications. The W3C standardized v1.0 of the XML Query Language in early 2007. Since then, a few processors have surfaced (both commercial and open source). VXQuery will implement this standard. VXQuery plans to be the glue that brings together imperative programming in Java and declarative programming in XQuery. The project would enable developers to use XQuery to navigate and transform application objects declaratively in Java applications with minimal overhead. In the VXQuery project we plan to build an implementation that allows users to run declarative XQueries on arbitrary object models. Existing XQuery engines execute queries by translating the user data into some form of XML Object model. With VXQuery, we take the opposing view - Translate the query to work natively on the user's object model. In addition, VXQuery works on top of different XML representations including DOM, Stax, and a space optimized model motivated by Xalan's DTM (Document Table Model). VXQuery will also provide a library that allows application developers to express declarative queries without the need to learn a new syntax. We believe that this will speed up the adoption process. Current Status This is a new project. Meritocracy The initial developers are very familiar with meritocratic open source development at Apache. Apache was chosen
Re: [PROPOSAL] VXQuery
Sanjiva, The way the system is built, the data source (the place from where XML is brought into the system), is fully pluggable. In fact, currently the parser has been implemented using StAX (JSR 173). The XML snippets one sees in XQuery is not parsed using an XML parser. Instead we use JavaCC to do that. The mention of Xerces was specifically to implement schema support in VXQuery as per the typing requirements of the XQuery spec. Does that answer your question? Thanks, Vinayak Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: Vinayak, in some other mail you indicated that there's little code around yet. So ... Can we build this on top of StAX instead of Xerces (presumably SAX)? That allows a high performant impl on top of Axiom, which would be very useful for all projects that use Axiom (Axis2 & family, Synapse, Abdera, Tuscany (I think) etc.). The StAX impl will allow CXF also to make good use of this and should not affect the ability to build a DOM or DTM or any other model. I would also love to see the Axiom binding done as part of this project but that's not a requirement as that can be done externally. Hmm thinking a bit more I guess the use of Xerces is just for parsing the XQuery XML syntax bits right? You've obviously had to write a parser for the non-XML syntax bits (which is a lot)? So then this is really an easy request! Sanjiva. On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: Paul, Thank you for willing to be a mentor. I have added you as a mentor to the proposal at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/VXQueryProposal. What would be the best way to get more 1. mentors 2. feedback so we can move the proposal to a vote? Thanks, Vinayak Paul Fremantle wrote: Yes I am willing to be a mentor. Paul On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: Paul, Thank you for your interest in the VXQuery engine. We are looking for mentors for the project. Would you be willing to be a mentor? Thanks, Vinayak Paul Fremantle wrote: Synapse would also be interested in using the XQuery implementation! Thanks Paul On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: Hello, We wish to present a proposal to create a new project in the incubator called VXQuery. Please find below, the plain-text version of the proposal. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Vinayak VXQueryProposal Abstract Apache VXQuery is a language processor that implements the XML Query Language v1.0 standardized by the W3C. Proposal VXQuery (Versatile XQuery) will be a standards compliant XML Query processor implemented in Java. We believe that there exists a strong (and growing) need to process semi-structured data in many applications. The W3C standardized v1.0 of the XML Query Language in early 2007. Since then, a few processors have surfaced (both commercial and open source). VXQuery will implement this standard. VXQuery plans to be the glue that brings together imperative programming in Java and declarative programming in XQuery. The project would enable developers to use XQuery to navigate and transform application objects declaratively in Java applications with minimal overhead. In the VXQuery project we plan to build an implementation that allows users to run declarative XQueries on arbitrary object models. Existing XQuery engines execute queries by translating the user data into some form of XML Object model. With VXQuery, we take the opposing view - Translate the query to work natively on the user's object model. In addition, VXQuery works on top of different XML representations including DOM, Stax, and a space optimized model motivated by Xalan's DTM (Document Table Model). VXQuery will also provide a library that allows application developers to express declarative queries without the need to learn a new syntax. We believe that this will speed up the adoption process. Current Status This is a new project. Meritocracy The initial developers are very familiar with meritocratic open source development at Apache. Apache was chosen specifically because the initial developers want to encourage this style of development for the project. Community VXQuery seeks to develop developer and user communities during incubation. Core Developers The core members of the project are diverse. Vinayak Borkar is an independent consultant. Till Westmann works for a company that would be a potential consumer of VXQuery. During incubation the developers base will be broadened. Alignment XQuery is gaining more traction as a XML management technology and there already are several Apache projects ([WWW] XMLBeans, [WWW] Camel, [WWW] Tuscany) that use or need a XQuery implementation. As no such implementation is available as an Apache project these projects have to rely on external engines. VXQuery can fill this gap and complement the XML support of the Apache Software Foundation. Known Risks Orphaned products VXQuery is new development. Inexperience with Open Source T
Re: VXQuery - For want of a mentor...
Jochen, We would really appreciate it if you could mentor us. Given that you would like to use the product downstream, your input would be invaluable. Thanks for the offer. We accept it wholeheartedly :) Thanks, Vinayak Jochen Wiedmann wrote: If it helps, I'd also be interested in taking a mentors work. I am no ASF member. However I am and have been in the PMC of Commons and WS for some years. Apart from that; I'd have a professional interest in the project, because it is more than likely that I could use it soon. Jochen On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: Hello, We, the prospective contributors of the VXQuery project are very eager to start working on the project as soon as soon as we are able to. The incubator mailing list has shown good support, too. We have: One mentor (Paul Fremantle) who expressed support for the project and accepted to be a mentor (Thanks), 2, +1 binding votes 2, -1 binding votes (willing to change to +1 if we get one more mentor) 2, +1 non-binding votes so far. Thank you for your support. However, we have been unable to find an ASF member who has expressed support for our project, and has the time to be a mentor for us. At this time, I am looking to the Incubator community for help on solving this problem. Please help :) Thanks, Vinayak - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
VXQuery - For want of a mentor...
Hello, We, the prospective contributors of the VXQuery project are very eager to start working on the project as soon as soon as we are able to. The incubator mailing list has shown good support, too. We have: One mentor (Paul Fremantle) who expressed support for the project and accepted to be a mentor (Thanks), 2, +1 binding votes 2, -1 binding votes (willing to change to +1 if we get one more mentor) 2, +1 non-binding votes so far. Thank you for your support. However, we have been unable to find an ASF member who has expressed support for our project, and has the time to be a mentor for us. At this time, I am looking to the Incubator community for help on solving this problem. Please help :) Thanks, Vinayak - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Apache VXQuery
Kevan, I have been spending some time writing code for this project. Its by no means complete. I guess that would mean I would be donating the code I have so far, and further development would continue from there. Is there something different I need to do in this case? Thanks, Vinayak Kevan Miller wrote: On Jun 14, 2009, at 10:22 PM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: Hello all, I would like to formally present the incubator proposal for Apache VXQuery, a Java based XQuery processor, for a vote The full proposal can be found at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/VXQueryProposal My apologies, I missed the original discussion of your proposal. One question: Is this a proposal to generate code from scratch? Or is there an existing codebase which will be donated? There's a mix of tenses used to describe VXQuery (e.g. "VXQuery works on..."). So, I'm not sure if code already exists, or if this is going to be all new code... --kevan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Apache VXQuery
Specifically Radu Preotiuc, who is on the XMLBeans PMC is willing to be a mentor if the Incubator allows that. Thanks, Vinayak Cezar Andrei wrote: Definitely we want to do all the things by the books, since we all respect and admire the Apache brand and it's values. We'll take into serious consideration all the advice we receive. Here http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Mentor , it says "All Mentors must be members of the Incubator PMC." Since XMLBeans is the sponsor, can other XMLBeans PMC members be mentors for the podling without being Incubator PMC members? Thanks Noel, Paul and Bertrand for the vote of confidence. Cezar On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: ...I am +1 to start Incubation, but not pleased to see only one Mentor on your list. I see that this project is going to come to us formally from the XMLBeans PMC. I would expect a better (more complete) Mentor list when they resubmit Same here, or more precisely I'm -1 on incubating with only one mentor, and will change that to a +1 once at least two mentors are listed. -Bertrand - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Apache VXQuery
Hello, Please find the proposal inline. Thanks, Vinayak VXQueryProposal Abstract Apache VXQuery is a language processor that implements the XML Query Language v1.0 standardized by the W3C. Proposal VXQuery (Versatile XQuery) will be a standards compliant XML Query processor implemented in Java. We believe that there exists a strong (and growing) need to process semi-structured data in many applications. The W3C standardized v1.0 of the XML Query Language in early 2007. Since then, a few processors have surfaced (both commercial and open source). VXQuery will implement this standard. VXQuery plans to be the glue that brings together imperative programming in Java and declarative programming in XQuery. The project would enable developers to use XQuery to navigate and transform application objects declaratively in Java applications with minimal overhead. In the VXQuery project we plan to build an implementation that allows users to run declarative XQueries on arbitrary object models. Existing XQuery engines execute queries by translating the user data into some form of XML Object model. With VXQuery, we take the opposing view - Translate the query to work natively on the user's object model. In addition, VXQuery works on top of different XML representations including DOM, Stax, and a space optimized model motivated by Xalan's DTM (Document Table Model). VXQuery will also provide a library that allows application developers to express declarative queries without the need to learn a new syntax. We believe that this will speed up the adoption process. Current Status This is a new project. The development of this proposal is complete and ready for a vote. Meritocracy The initial developers are very familiar with meritocratic open source development at Apache. Apache was chosen specifically because the initial developers want to encourage this style of development for the project. Community VXQuery seeks to develop developer and user communities during incubation. Core Developers The core members of the project are diverse. Vinayak Borkar is an independent consultant. Till Westmann works for a company that would be a potential consumer of VXQuery. During incubation the developers base will be broadened. Alignment XQuery is gaining more traction as a XML management technology and there already are several Apache projects ([WWW] XMLBeans, [WWW] Camel, [WWW] Tuscany, [WWW] Synapse) that use or need a XQuery implementation. As no such implementation is available as an Apache project these projects have to rely on external engines. VXQuery can fill this gap and complement the XML support of the Apache Software Foundation. Known Risks Orphaned products VXQuery is new development. Inexperience with Open Source The initial developers include long-time open source developers. Vinayak Borkar is an active contributor to the Zorba project at the FLWOR foundation. Relationships with Other Apache Products XMLBeans is a representation of XML that would be natively supported in VXQuery. Therefore VXQuery can be used as an efficient and Apache-licensed implementation for the [WWW] selectPath and execQuery methods found in XMLBeans. Similarly, [WWW] Tuscany's SDO implementation can be natively supported and VXQuery can be used to provide an [WWW] XQuery implementation for Tuscany. VXQuery can also be used as an XQuery implementation for [WWW] Camel, and [WWW] Synapse. Further, VXQuery uses the Xerces XML parser and schema validator. A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand We believe in the processes, systems, and framework Apache has put in place. Apache is also known to foster a great community around their projects and provide exposure. While these points are important, they are not the main motivation for choosing Apache to host VXQuery. Documentation Not publicly available Initial Source Not publicly available External Dependencies [WWW] JavaCC (BSD license), [WWW] Davos SDO implementation (Apache 2.0 license), [WWW] Woodstox XML parser (Apache 2.0 license), [WWW] XStream project (BSD license) Required Resources Developer and user mailing lists [MAILTO] vxquery-...@incubator.apache.org [MAILTO] vxquery-us...@incubator.apache.org [MAILTO] vxquery-comm...@incubator.apache.org A subversion repository [WWW] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/vxquery A JIRA issue tracker VXQuery (VXQUERY) Initial Committers * Vinayak Borkar [Submitted CLA] * Till Westmann [Submitted CLA] * Cezar Andrei [Have CLA] * Michael Carey [Submitted CLA] Sponsors * XMLBeans PMC Champion * Cezar Andrei Nominated Mentors * Paul Fremantle Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: Hello all, I would like to formally present the incubator proposal for Apache VXQuery, a Java based XQuery processor, for a vote The full proposal can be found at http://wiki.apach
[PROPOSAL][VOTE] Apache VXQuery
Hello all, I would like to formally present the incubator proposal for Apache VXQuery, a Java based XQuery processor, for a vote The full proposal can be found at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/VXQueryProposal Thanks, Vinayak - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
VXQuery Incubation
Hello, We have created the proposal and circulated it on this mailing list. People have expressed interest in the project. However, it is at a stand-still with respect to the incubation process. Any help on how we can proceed would be great. For your reference, the proposal is at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/VXQueryProposal We would really like to avail of the facilities of the incubator project and start active development on the project. Thanks, Vinayak - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: [PROPOSAL] VXQuery
Paul, Thank you for willing to be a mentor. I have added you as a mentor to the proposal at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/VXQueryProposal. What would be the best way to get more 1. mentors 2. feedback so we can move the proposal to a vote? Thanks, Vinayak Paul Fremantle wrote: Yes I am willing to be a mentor. Paul On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: Paul, Thank you for your interest in the VXQuery engine. We are looking for mentors for the project. Would you be willing to be a mentor? Thanks, Vinayak Paul Fremantle wrote: Synapse would also be interested in using the XQuery implementation! Thanks Paul On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: Hello, We wish to present a proposal to create a new project in the incubator called VXQuery. Please find below, the plain-text version of the proposal. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Vinayak VXQueryProposal Abstract Apache VXQuery is a language processor that implements the XML Query Language v1.0 standardized by the W3C. Proposal VXQuery (Versatile XQuery) will be a standards compliant XML Query processor implemented in Java. We believe that there exists a strong (and growing) need to process semi-structured data in many applications. The W3C standardized v1.0 of the XML Query Language in early 2007. Since then, a few processors have surfaced (both commercial and open source). VXQuery will implement this standard. VXQuery plans to be the glue that brings together imperative programming in Java and declarative programming in XQuery. The project would enable developers to use XQuery to navigate and transform application objects declaratively in Java applications with minimal overhead. In the VXQuery project we plan to build an implementation that allows users to run declarative XQueries on arbitrary object models. Existing XQuery engines execute queries by translating the user data into some form of XML Object model. With VXQuery, we take the opposing view - Translate the query to work natively on the user's object model. In addition, VXQuery works on top of different XML representations including DOM, Stax, and a space optimized model motivated by Xalan's DTM (Document Table Model). VXQuery will also provide a library that allows application developers to express declarative queries without the need to learn a new syntax. We believe that this will speed up the adoption process. Current Status This is a new project. Meritocracy The initial developers are very familiar with meritocratic open source development at Apache. Apache was chosen specifically because the initial developers want to encourage this style of development for the project. Community VXQuery seeks to develop developer and user communities during incubation. Core Developers The core members of the project are diverse. Vinayak Borkar is an independent consultant. Till Westmann works for a company that would be a potential consumer of VXQuery. During incubation the developers base will be broadened. Alignment XQuery is gaining more traction as a XML management technology and there already are several Apache projects ([WWW] XMLBeans, [WWW] Camel, [WWW] Tuscany) that use or need a XQuery implementation. As no such implementation is available as an Apache project these projects have to rely on external engines. VXQuery can fill this gap and complement the XML support of the Apache Software Foundation. Known Risks Orphaned products VXQuery is new development. Inexperience with Open Source The initial developers include long-time open source developers. Vinayak Borkar is an active contributor to the Zorba project at the FLWOR foundation. Relationships with Other Apache Products XMLBeans is a representation of XML that would be natively supported in VXQuery. Therefore VXQuery can be used as an efficient and Apache-licensed implementation for the [WWW] selectPath and execQuery methods found in XMLBeans. Similarly, [WWW] Tuscany's SDO implementation can be natively supported and VXQuery can be used to provide an [WWW] XQuery implementation for Tuscany. VXQuery can also be used as an XQuery implementation for [WWW] Camel. Further, VXQuery uses the Xerces XML parser and schema validator. A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand We believe in the processes, systems, and framework Apache has put in place. Apache is also known to foster a great community around their projects and provide exposure. While these points are important, they are not the main motivation for choosing Apache to host VXQuery. Documentation Not publicly available Initial Source Not publicly available External Dependencies [WWW] JavaCC (BSD license), [WWW] Davos SDO implementation (Apache 2.0 license), [WWW] Woodstox XML parser (Apache 2.0 license), [WWW] XStream project (BSD license) Required Resources Developer and user mailing lists [MAILTO] vxquery-...@incubator.apache.org [MAILTO] vxquery-us...@incubator.apache.org [
Re: [PROPOSAL] VXQuery
Paul, Thank you for your interest in the VXQuery engine. We are looking for mentors for the project. Would you be willing to be a mentor? Thanks, Vinayak Paul Fremantle wrote: Synapse would also be interested in using the XQuery implementation! Thanks Paul On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: Hello, We wish to present a proposal to create a new project in the incubator called VXQuery. Please find below, the plain-text version of the proposal. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Vinayak VXQueryProposal Abstract Apache VXQuery is a language processor that implements the XML Query Language v1.0 standardized by the W3C. Proposal VXQuery (Versatile XQuery) will be a standards compliant XML Query processor implemented in Java. We believe that there exists a strong (and growing) need to process semi-structured data in many applications. The W3C standardized v1.0 of the XML Query Language in early 2007. Since then, a few processors have surfaced (both commercial and open source). VXQuery will implement this standard. VXQuery plans to be the glue that brings together imperative programming in Java and declarative programming in XQuery. The project would enable developers to use XQuery to navigate and transform application objects declaratively in Java applications with minimal overhead. In the VXQuery project we plan to build an implementation that allows users to run declarative XQueries on arbitrary object models. Existing XQuery engines execute queries by translating the user data into some form of XML Object model. With VXQuery, we take the opposing view - Translate the query to work natively on the user's object model. In addition, VXQuery works on top of different XML representations including DOM, Stax, and a space optimized model motivated by Xalan's DTM (Document Table Model). VXQuery will also provide a library that allows application developers to express declarative queries without the need to learn a new syntax. We believe that this will speed up the adoption process. Current Status This is a new project. Meritocracy The initial developers are very familiar with meritocratic open source development at Apache. Apache was chosen specifically because the initial developers want to encourage this style of development for the project. Community VXQuery seeks to develop developer and user communities during incubation. Core Developers The core members of the project are diverse. Vinayak Borkar is an independent consultant. Till Westmann works for a company that would be a potential consumer of VXQuery. During incubation the developers base will be broadened. Alignment XQuery is gaining more traction as a XML management technology and there already are several Apache projects ([WWW] XMLBeans, [WWW] Camel, [WWW] Tuscany) that use or need a XQuery implementation. As no such implementation is available as an Apache project these projects have to rely on external engines. VXQuery can fill this gap and complement the XML support of the Apache Software Foundation. Known Risks Orphaned products VXQuery is new development. Inexperience with Open Source The initial developers include long-time open source developers. Vinayak Borkar is an active contributor to the Zorba project at the FLWOR foundation. Relationships with Other Apache Products XMLBeans is a representation of XML that would be natively supported in VXQuery. Therefore VXQuery can be used as an efficient and Apache-licensed implementation for the [WWW] selectPath and execQuery methods found in XMLBeans. Similarly, [WWW] Tuscany's SDO implementation can be natively supported and VXQuery can be used to provide an [WWW] XQuery implementation for Tuscany. VXQuery can also be used as an XQuery implementation for [WWW] Camel. Further, VXQuery uses the Xerces XML parser and schema validator. A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand We believe in the processes, systems, and framework Apache has put in place. Apache is also known to foster a great community around their projects and provide exposure. While these points are important, they are not the main motivation for choosing Apache to host VXQuery. Documentation Not publicly available Initial Source Not publicly available External Dependencies [WWW] JavaCC (BSD license), [WWW] Davos SDO implementation (Apache 2.0 license), [WWW] Woodstox XML parser (Apache 2.0 license), [WWW] XStream project (BSD license) Required Resources Developer and user mailing lists [MAILTO] vxquery-...@incubator.apache.org [MAILTO] vxquery-us...@incubator.apache.org [MAILTO] vxquery-comm...@incubator.apache.org A subversion repository [WWW] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/vxquery A JIRA issue tracker VXQuery (VXQUERY) Initial Committers * Vinayak Borkar * Till Westmann * Cezar Andrei [Have CLA] * Michael Carey Sponsors * XMLBeans PMC Champion * Cezar Andrei No
[PROPOSAL] VXQuery
Hello, We wish to present a proposal to create a new project in the incubator called VXQuery. Please find below, the plain-text version of the proposal. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Vinayak VXQueryProposal Abstract Apache VXQuery is a language processor that implements the XML Query Language v1.0 standardized by the W3C. Proposal VXQuery (Versatile XQuery) will be a standards compliant XML Query processor implemented in Java. We believe that there exists a strong (and growing) need to process semi-structured data in many applications. The W3C standardized v1.0 of the XML Query Language in early 2007. Since then, a few processors have surfaced (both commercial and open source). VXQuery will implement this standard. VXQuery plans to be the glue that brings together imperative programming in Java and declarative programming in XQuery. The project would enable developers to use XQuery to navigate and transform application objects declaratively in Java applications with minimal overhead. In the VXQuery project we plan to build an implementation that allows users to run declarative XQueries on arbitrary object models. Existing XQuery engines execute queries by translating the user data into some form of XML Object model. With VXQuery, we take the opposing view - Translate the query to work natively on the user's object model. In addition, VXQuery works on top of different XML representations including DOM, Stax, and a space optimized model motivated by Xalan's DTM (Document Table Model). VXQuery will also provide a library that allows application developers to express declarative queries without the need to learn a new syntax. We believe that this will speed up the adoption process. Current Status This is a new project. Meritocracy The initial developers are very familiar with meritocratic open source development at Apache. Apache was chosen specifically because the initial developers want to encourage this style of development for the project. Community VXQuery seeks to develop developer and user communities during incubation. Core Developers The core members of the project are diverse. Vinayak Borkar is an independent consultant. Till Westmann works for a company that would be a potential consumer of VXQuery. During incubation the developers base will be broadened. Alignment XQuery is gaining more traction as a XML management technology and there already are several Apache projects ([WWW] XMLBeans, [WWW] Camel, [WWW] Tuscany) that use or need a XQuery implementation. As no such implementation is available as an Apache project these projects have to rely on external engines. VXQuery can fill this gap and complement the XML support of the Apache Software Foundation. Known Risks Orphaned products VXQuery is new development. Inexperience with Open Source The initial developers include long-time open source developers. Vinayak Borkar is an active contributor to the Zorba project at the FLWOR foundation. Relationships with Other Apache Products XMLBeans is a representation of XML that would be natively supported in VXQuery. Therefore VXQuery can be used as an efficient and Apache-licensed implementation for the [WWW] selectPath and execQuery methods found in XMLBeans. Similarly, [WWW] Tuscany's SDO implementation can be natively supported and VXQuery can be used to provide an [WWW] XQuery implementation for Tuscany. VXQuery can also be used as an XQuery implementation for [WWW] Camel. Further, VXQuery uses the Xerces XML parser and schema validator. A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand We believe in the processes, systems, and framework Apache has put in place. Apache is also known to foster a great community around their projects and provide exposure. While these points are important, they are not the main motivation for choosing Apache to host VXQuery. Documentation Not publicly available Initial Source Not publicly available External Dependencies [WWW] JavaCC (BSD license), [WWW] Davos SDO implementation (Apache 2.0 license), [WWW] Woodstox XML parser (Apache 2.0 license), [WWW] XStream project (BSD license) Required Resources Developer and user mailing lists [MAILTO] vxquery-...@incubator.apache.org [MAILTO] vxquery-us...@incubator.apache.org [MAILTO] vxquery-comm...@incubator.apache.org A subversion repository [WWW] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/vxquery A JIRA issue tracker VXQuery (VXQUERY) Initial Committers * Vinayak Borkar * Till Westmann * Cezar Andrei [Have CLA] * Michael Carey Sponsors * XMLBeans PMC Champion * Cezar Andrei Nominated Mentors * Looking for mentors - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
VXQuery Proposal
Hello, I am planning to submit the following proposal to the incubator. http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/VXQueryProposal Please give me any thoughts/feedback/advice that I could use to refine it. Thanks, Vinayak - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
