Re: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons

2003-12-23 Thread Daniel F. Savarese
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .com.au>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> I think something folks are missing is that if J-C moves to A-C, then >> all J-C committers become A-C PMC Members and can change the rules that >> don't make sense once A-C has incorporated J-C. For example, and it's > >I'm fai

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

2003-12-23 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 09:18:43AM -, Stephen Colebourne wrote: >... > I'll say again - the Board could avoid this damage by > choosing to ACT rather than REACT. I don't think that I can stress this enough: the Board is too far removed to "ACT" properly. We can certainly take actions, but it w

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

2003-12-23 Thread Stephen Colebourne
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. IMHO, the only hope is f

Re: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons

2003-12-22 Thread dion
"Daniel F. Savarese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 23/12/2003 11:09:24 AM: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ga > ry Gregory writes: > >Well, now I am switched around to a "-1" as well :-( > > > >> From: Rodney Waldhoff > >> 1) a-c organization: I think the organizational structure of > >> apa

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

2003-12-22 Thread Phil Steitz
Daniel F. Savarese wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ga ry Gregory writes: Well, now I am switched around to a "-1" as well :-( From: Rodney Waldhoff 1) a-c organization: I think the organizational structure of apache-commons (one list per component, balkanized karma rights, etc.) is bad fo

RE: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons

2003-12-22 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Tuesday, December 23, 2003 11:16 AM +1100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it not possible to run CVS without shell accounts? Doesn't sourceforge work this way? SourceForge provides restricted shell accounts to people with commit access on a 'dedicated' CVS box that does nothing else. And, they

RE: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons

2003-12-22 Thread Gary Gregory
> -Original Message- > From: Tim O'Brien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 14:47 > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > Subject: RE: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons > > Alright, all around - moving to Subversion is ou

RE: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons

2003-12-22 Thread Gary Gregory
day, December 22, 2003 10:33 > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > Subject: Re: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons > > As a contributor to and user of commons-codec, I'm voting -1. > > My reasons, as I've described in more detail on the apache-commons list &g

Re: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons

2003-12-22 Thread Rodney Waldhoff
As a contributor to and user of commons-codec, I'm voting -1. My reasons, as I've described in more detail on the apache-commons list and probably others, are: 1) a-c organization: I think the organizational structure of apache-commons (one list per component, balkanized karma rights, etc.) is ba

RE: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons

2003-12-21 Thread dion
bclipse.tigris.org/. Bummer they do not support the current 3.0.m > version. > > Gary > > > -Original Message- > > From: Gary Gregory [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 19:15 > > To: 'Jakarta Commons Deve

Re: subversion {was Re: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons}

2003-12-20 Thread Greg Stein
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 11:21:39AM -0500, Henri Yandell wrote: > On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, __matthewHawthorne wrote: >... > > I was recently forced to switch to Subversion at work. I haven't yet > > tried to install a server, but the client and client-ssl were pretty > > simple -- I just installed the

Re: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons

2003-12-20 Thread Phil Steitz
David Graham wrote: I agree with everything Martin said. I often read codec messages and if it wasn't hosted in Jakarta commons I wouldn't have worked on the DigestUtils code. Granted, that code is a very small piece of codec but I think it says a lot about the community that people unrelated to

Re: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons

2003-12-20 Thread Scott Sanders
On Dec 20, 2003, at 2:47 AM, Stephen Colebourne wrote: To go to A-C means to have no supporting community other than codec developers. Will you ask for your own mailing list? I would not. or be on the same list as Serf? Or be here on the same list as jxpath, digester, io, etc? I do not see the d

Re: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons

2003-12-20 Thread Scott Sanders
On Dec 20, 2003, at 6:33 AM, Dirk Verbeeck wrote: -0, unless there is a real plan to port codec to another language (in the very near future), I would ask you to remain at jakarta-commons. Testing the waters of Apache Commons is a good idea but the real test is: Can Apache commons build a cross

Re: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons

2003-12-20 Thread David Graham
I agree with everything Martin said. I often read codec messages and if it wasn't hosted in Jakarta commons I wouldn't have worked on the DigestUtils code. Granted, that code is a very small piece of codec but I think it says a lot about the community that people unrelated to a particular project

Re: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons

2003-12-20 Thread Martin Cooper
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Tim O'Brien wrote: > Enough people profess interest in using this product, but only a few > committers (myself and Gary) actually go about the business of > contributing. Believe it or not, I think that components get lost in > the signal to noise ratio of the Jakarta Commons

Re: subversion {was Re: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons}

2003-12-20 Thread Henri Yandell
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, __matthewHawthorne wrote: > Henri Yandell wrote: > >>#1. Commons Codec will be hosted on Subversion > > > > -1 > > > > I've not been able to install the server on Linux, or the client-ssl on a > > Mac with ease. Partly this is my own damn stupidity I suspect, but I'm > > co

Re: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons

2003-12-20 Thread Dirk Verbeeck
-0, unless there is a real plan to port codec to another language (in the very near future), I would ask you to remain at jakarta-commons. Testing the waters of Apache Commons is a good idea but the real test is: Can Apache commons build a cross-language community? Testing Subversion & Jira sho

Re: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons

2003-12-20 Thread Stephen Colebourne
From: "Tim O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Stephen Colebourne wrote: > >Will you ask for your own mailing list? > I don't see why not. I would prefer this for a few reasons. First, I > think that the shared mailing list is distracting from the focus needed > to produce quality software. Second, I

Re: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons

2003-12-20 Thread Tim O'Brien
Stephen Colebourne wrote: I understand the fustrations of J-C that might cause this proposal. I do fear the result of this change though. However, I believe that an individual component has the right to decide its own fate within J-C. So all I can do is indicate my -0 to the change at the moment a

Re: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons

2003-12-20 Thread Tim O'Brien
Henri Yandell wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Tim O'Brien wrote: To this end, I propose that Jakarta Commons Codec be officially transformed into Apache Commons Codec. -0, in that I'm in favour of trying to push for an entire, or large, J-C to A-C-ish move. We're pretty soon going to have the

Re: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons

2003-12-20 Thread Stephen Colebourne
I understand the fustrations of J-C that might cause this proposal. I do fear the result of this change though. However, I believe that an individual component has the right to decide its own fate within J-C. So all I can do is indicate my -0 to the change at the moment as I don't think alternative

subversion {was Re: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons}

2003-12-20 Thread __matthewHawthorne
Henri Yandell wrote: #1. Commons Codec will be hosted on Subversion > -1 I've not been able to install the server on Linux, or the client-ssl on a Mac with ease. Partly this is my own damn stupidity I suspect, but I'm competent on both platforms and would expect it to work pretty easily. I do want

Re: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons

2003-12-19 Thread Henri Yandell
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Tim O'Brien wrote: > To this end, I propose that Jakarta Commons Codec be officially > transformed into Apache Commons Codec. -0, in that I'm in favour of trying to push for an entire, or large, J-C to A-C-ish move. We're pretty soon going to have the kind of situation in w

RE: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons

2003-12-19 Thread Gary Gregory
d in a great IDE. So, take all of this with a grain of salt from some who just likes eclipse too much :-) Gary > -Original Message- > From: Tim O'Brien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 19:47 > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > Subj

Re: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons

2003-12-19 Thread Tim O'Brien
Gary Gregory wrote: #1. Commons Codec will be hosted on Subversion -1, unless I can use Eclipse to access the repos. Can Subversion work in some kind of CVS compatibility mode? Using a CLI is such a pain. When did ASF development become tied to Eclipse functionality? I've noticed this ov

RE: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons

2003-12-19 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> > #1. Commons Codec will be hosted on Subversion > -1, unless I can use Eclipse to access the repos. Can Subversion work in > some kind of CVS compatibility mode? Using a CLI is such a pain. > Ah I see "Actually subclipse can be used with Eclipse 2.1.0 and 2.1.1." > on http://subclipse.tigris.o

Re: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons

2003-12-19 Thread Scott Sanders
On Dec 19, 2003, at 6:56 PM, Tim O'Brien wrote: Codec, a small - probably the smallest - piece of code in Jakarta-land. Is well suited for inclusion in Apache Commons. I propose that Codec be used as a guinea pig of sorts to test the waters of Apache Commons. It is not language specific, and

RE: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons

2003-12-19 Thread Gary Gregory
9:15 > To: 'Jakarta Commons Developers List' > Subject: RE: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons > > > -Original Message- > > From: Tim O'Brien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 18:56 > > To: [EMAIL

RE: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons

2003-12-19 Thread Gary Gregory
> -Original Message- > From: Tim O'Brien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 18:56 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons > > Codec, a small - probably the smallest - piece of code in Jakarta-

[codec] [proposal] Moving To Apache Commons

2003-12-19 Thread Tim O'Brien
Codec, a small - probably the smallest - piece of code in Jakarta-land. Is well suited for inclusion in Apache Commons. I propose that Codec be used as a guinea pig of sorts to test the waters of Apache Commons. It is not language specific, and it is something that could be excised from the