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

2008-11-12 Thread John Spackman
/FederatedCommons On 11/11/2008, John Spackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Paul, Great :) I'm working on some addition patches for JELLY-184 and a few others; they don't always make a lot of sense added to a single JIRA entry though, IE patch for one bug affecting the patch script for another

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

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

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

2008-11-11 Thread John Spackman
and commits in order for you to become a committer. Henri, can you please agree that we try to make jelly enter a maintained mode, within a month or so, before we show not actively maintained on the web-page? thanks in advance paul Le 11-nov.-08 à 06:28, John Spackman a écrit : Hi Paul, I agree

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

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

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

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

Re: [jelly] Is jelly still in development

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

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

2008-11-08 Thread John Spackman
such repair? I could then try to apply a patch you submit to jira. I am not sure (and hope not) that the web-site can only be fixed by the migration to maven2... paul Le 08-nov.-08 à 10:20, John Spackman a écrit : We're still actively using Jelly and while the usefulness of some of the extension