Re: [all] Craig Mcc turned spammer? :-)

2004-04-13 Thread Danny Angus
> Was this sent to me directly, or did it go to the list? You can find out by looking at the headers, was it handled by an apache.org machine at any point? But it is also highly likely that the spammers mined this list and got your address *and* Craigs, and used Craig as the sender because

Re: [plea] get back to work -- was Re: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons

2003-12-23 Thread Danny Angus
> I know exactly how you feel. The basic problem is that Jakarta, and > Jakarta-Commons, are now incapable of taking any decisions on contentious > issues. They are too large - too large for the discussion, too many mails, > too many personalities and and inability to hold a vote. I think that

Re: [ANN][hivemind] hivemind has been temporarily taken offline

2003-11-07 Thread Danny Angus
Harish, There isn't very much traffic on the PMC list at all, most business, and all votes, is transacted on the general list. If anyone has any item which they wish to draw to the specific attention of the PMC it is always a good idea to post to PMC@ because you will then know that your messa

Re: OT: Re: [ANN] hivemind has been temporarily taken offline

2003-11-07 Thread Danny Angus
Vic, I read the discussions in which you made allegations about Geronimo. Now please read this: 1/ It is the decision of the Jakarta PMC that as doubt about the ownership has been expressed and not resolved it is prudent for the PMC to take this step until it is resolved. 2/ No one is sugges

RE: [hivemind] what exactly is the issue here?

2003-11-06 Thread Danny Angus
Noel wrote: (about Howard & Hivemind) > Some of his messages seem to > imply that he feels that if he did [put the full facts before the PMC or the Board], there would be drastic action. Speaking for myself I'd say there is *less* likely to be drastic action if the PMC are fully congnisant

RE: [Math] common-math and bloated 3rd party libraries

2003-11-05 Thread Danny Angus
FWIW the math proposal actually says: "Emphasis on small, easily integrated components rather than large libraries with c

Re: Scripting in Java ?

2003-10-24 Thread Danny Angus
Mark wrote: > I think its important to point out that BSF is really a "Generic > Framework" for plugging in other scripting engines Snip... > So with this in mind you can actually plug jython, rhino, etc into it > and use it as a generic api for your java development. I've used BSF with bot

Re: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 23990] - EmailValidator - valid email address fails

2003-10-22 Thread Danny Angus
> So it again boils down to a *BUG*. But not the same bug.. *** The information in this e-mail is confidential and for use by the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient (or responsible for delivery o

RE: [Attributes] Inherit and Develop

2003-08-19 Thread Danny Angus
> I personally don't have any problem > with widening that rule to any Apache committer, which would therefore > include Leo automatically (he has commit access on Avalon, which used to > be a Jakarta sub-project but is now top level). Does any other > Commons-Dev committer or Jakarta PMC member h

RE: [DBCP] Event/Listener proposal (was .. RE: [DBCP] AbandonedTrace - Connection Recovery)

2003-07-24 Thread Danny Angus
r > "fireOnConnectionLeak(ConnectionLeakEvent)" and server can hung before to > fire this event. It looks like we have nothing to implement, if we can not > to detect leak to fire event. > But sandbox is open for R&D. > > - Original Message - > From: &qu

[DBCP] Event/Listener proposal (was .. RE: [DBCP] AbandonedTrace - Connection Recovery)

2003-07-24 Thread Danny Angus
Well I never, There's been a lot of talk generated by my innocent proposal of using the Observer pattern, or in more java-esque terms events and listeners to arrive at a compromise in the Connection Recovery War. I'd like to clarify some points raised. In the first place to address the criticism o

Event/Listener proposal (was .. RE: [DBCP] AbandonedTrace - Connection Recovery)

2003-07-23 Thread Danny Angus
Well I never, There's been a lot of talk generated by my innocent proposal of using the Observer pattern, or in more java-esque terms events and listeners to arrive at a compromise in the Connection Recovery War. I'd like to clarify some points raised. In the first place to address the criticism o

RE: [DBCP] AbandonedTrace - Connection Recovery

2003-07-22 Thread Danny Angus
Juozas, > I think I will leave commons and I will spend more my time on SF > with forked > code, if this kind of vote can win at apache. > My input is not a very big, but I will lose any energy to work for crap . I think it is sad that you would rather leave than suggest any alternative. It hig

RE: [DBCP] AbandonedTrace - Connection Recovery

2003-07-22 Thread Danny Angus
Juozas, > I do not think it is good idea to maintain any kind of public API for > "abandoned connections", It is garbage, > If application or server is not broken, it doe's not need workarounds. It is easy for you to say this, but the fact remains that a number of people are quite vocal in their

RE: [DBCP] AbandonedTrace - Connection Recovery

2003-07-22 Thread Danny Angus
Serge et al, Further to my suggestion about using the Observer pattern for event notification w.r.t. point 4 (below) I forgot to mention that it also has the benefit of offering a compromise in the pro/anti recovery debate. Existing contentious code designed to reclaim or test connections need no

RE: [DBCP] AbandonedTrace - Connection Recovery

2003-07-22 Thread Danny Angus
Serge, > 1. Remove existing abandoned recovery attempt code. > 2. Log when connections are abandoned and do not add them back into the > pool. > 3. Optionally log stack trace of where abandoned connection was first > grabbed. > 4. Provide some kind of extensible connection object that could allow

RE: DBCP status?

2003-07-01 Thread Danny Angus
Serge, > I *need* the pooler to close connections that have been borrowed from > the pool and forgotten to be closed. Can you give a) reasons why not to > close them because of an optional parameter and b) suggested workaround? Why? I can think of a couple of reasons you might give, but I'm se

RE: Re[4]: Nightly builds?

2003-06-30 Thread Danny Angus
> But, with that program I have another kind of difficulty: > by itself it generates keys of some format not recognized > by ssh server running on cvs.apache.org. The keys of this > format look like Top tip .. I find it often avoids pain if you generate your keys on the server you're connecting

RE: Re[2]: Nightly builds?

2003-06-30 Thread Danny Angus
> Me too, but maybe I'm lameristic :) > In fact I use windows port of SSH (by Gorden Chaffee, > ssh-1.2.14-win32bin.zip) > with windows port of cvs. CVS and ssh work fine but I fail to do scp. > But I have been failing this for a long time already. Maybe the reason > is that with scp I did not fi

RE: Re[2]: DBCP status?

2003-06-30 Thread Danny Angus
> I have been stricken with the beauty of approach > you have proposed, indeed its nice to emulate > a server timeout :-)) I can see how this would appeal, allowing DBCP to impose its own timeout, however IMO it would still not allow DBCP be able to reclaim the connection, Rather it would have

RE: DBCP status?

2003-06-30 Thread Danny Angus
I think we've had this discussion before. But I'll weigh in with my 2c again because I still feel strongly about it.. Craig says: > I do not believe there is any fundamentally sound algorithm that a > connection pool can use to detect when a connection has truly been > "abandoned" and is thereby

RE: [DBCP] Please let us start to improve the connection pool

2003-03-25 Thread Danny Angus
Craig wrote: > But I think we might be using the term "recycle" differently. > > By "recycle", do you mean "if a connection has been setting in the pool > for a long time and is not allocated to an application, so we can close it > now"? No, thats pool administration. IMO its an implementation

RE: [DBCP] Please let us start to improve the connection pool

2003-03-24 Thread Danny Angus
Craig, > IMHO, any application that depends on the connection pool for recovering > abandoned connections (whether or not it recycles them) is broken. Far > better is to focus your energy on avoiding all the cases where you grab a > connection from the pool but fail to return it for some reason.

RE: [NET] Here's an Ant bug that we should look into fixing

2003-03-11 Thread Danny Angus
> As far as my less ambitious goal of parsing dates correctly on > different locale systems is concerned, I posted a request on the > Ant list for any sample FTP sites implemented in different > languages and so far have not received any replies. Are you sure that dates are transferred in loca