Re: Concerned Strutszien: A Manifesto

2008-11-12 Thread Musachy Barroso
> The first thing I'd do is flip things around so that everything builds > by default, and use profiles to *exclude* things if necessary. But > since I'm pretty sure that would break Bamboo, I won't do it. I will > make time to help if someone wants to drive this. > I think this much I could do

Re: Concerned Strutszien: A Manifesto

2008-11-12 Thread Musachy Barroso
Did you get anywhere with this? On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Jeromy Evans < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wendy Smoak wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Bob Tiernay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> >>> I get the sense that CI + Maven is a like wrestling with a slinky. Is >>> this

Re: Concerned Strutszien: A Manifesto

2008-10-24 Thread dusty
Thanks Frank! Your comments are appreciated and obviously well thought out. > What is there in S2 to truly excite Web 2.0 >developers in S2 as compared to other frameworks? Hmmm. From what I can tell you are describing Web 2.0 in terms of client-heavy scripting language driven websites.

Re: Documentation issues (was: Re: Concerned Strutszien: A Manifesto)

2008-10-23 Thread Dave Newton
ippets. # Additional examples can still be added/etc. by non-committers. Dave [1] I'll work on the snippet macro/etc. (if necessary) to support what I want to do. --- On Thu, 10/23/08, Philip Luppens wrote: > From: Philip Luppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Documentation iss

Documentation issues (was: Re: Concerned Strutszien: A Manifesto)

2008-10-22 Thread Philip Luppens
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Dave Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- On Wed, 10/22/08, Philip Luppens wrote: >> Javadoc makes a very poor format for creating example code; > > Not in JavaDoc, as Java/JSP/FreeMarker/etc. and pulled in to the wiki via > snippets. That way they're examples t

Re: Concerned Strutszien: A Manifesto

2008-10-22 Thread Dave Newton
--- On Wed, 10/22/08, Philip Luppens wrote: > Javadoc makes a very poor format for creating example code; Not in JavaDoc, as Java/JSP/FreeMarker/etc. and pulled in to the wiki via snippets. That way they're examples that actually work. Dave -

Re: Concerned Strutszien: A Manifesto

2008-10-22 Thread Philip Luppens
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Dave Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- On Wed, 10/22/08, Philip Luppens wrote: >> - Documentation: no more (example) documentation in the >> Javadocs so non-committers can make changes in the wiki. > > I'd augment this a bit > > I'd really like all the example

Re: Concerned Strutszien: A Manifesto

2008-10-22 Thread Dave Newton
--- On Wed, 10/22/08, Philip Luppens wrote: > - Documentation: no more (example) documentation in the > Javadocs so non-committers can make changes in the wiki. I'd augment this a bit I'd really like all the examples to be in source control and have associated tests, and I'm willing to spend som

Re: Concerned Strutszien: A Manifesto

2008-10-22 Thread Ian Roughley
> To be sure, there *are* some cool things in S2. What I for one don't > see, and I've heard a similar feeling expressed by many as recently as > at The Ajax Experience earlier this month, is a clear, coherent vision > of how S2 lets me develop these so-called Web 2.0 applications better > than a

Re: Concerned Strutszien: A Manifesto

2008-10-22 Thread Musachy Barroso
> The release process here could be *much* simpler, but it's really hard > to change someone else's process. :) It's going to take someone to > volunteer to be release manager and refine the process and the build > once or twice. > > Whose process? Apache's? Either way, if it can be *much* simpler

Re: Concerned Strutszien: A Manifesto

2008-10-22 Thread Rene Gielen
Lots of the "pain" when doing a release comes from the administrative side. Getting Jira issues in shape and tagged for the release, preparing release notes and docs export, fixing site texts, managing the vote process, doing announcements etc. In addition, there are some time consuming and maybe m

Re: Concerned Strutszien: A Manifesto

2008-10-21 Thread Philip Luppens
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:20 AM, dusty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So the more I think about it the more thoughts I have > > The major users like Atlassian and Google forked Webwork a while ago I think > and they don't run their stuff off the Struts2 code base. Don has been > awesome for St

Re: Concerned Strutszien: A Manifesto

2008-10-21 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
dusty wrote: So we get more aggressive with our releases. We definitely want to preserve compatibility but if we have a good reason for breaking compatibility we let people know and show them how to migrate. At the same time we get more aggressive with marketing, by overhauling the website, gett

Re: Concerned Strutszien: A Manifesto

2008-10-21 Thread Jeromy Evans
Wendy Smoak wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Bob Tiernay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I get the sense that CI + Maven is a like wrestling with a slinky. Is this problem endemic to s2? What do other open source projects do to alleviate this? The release process here could be *much

Re: Concerned Strutszien: A Manifesto

2008-10-21 Thread Wendy Smoak
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Bob Tiernay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get the sense that CI + Maven is a like wrestling with a slinky. Is this > problem endemic to s2? What do other open source projects do to alleviate > this? The release process here could be *much* simpler, but it's reall

Re: Concerned Strutszien: A Manifesto

2008-10-21 Thread Musachy Barroso
These are the steps: http://struts.apache.org/2.x/docs/creating-and-signing-a-struts-21x-distribution.html If they were easier, and there's got to be a way to make it easier, builds would be coming out more often I am sure. On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:50 PM, dusty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

Re: Concerned Strutszien: A Manifesto

2008-10-21 Thread dusty
So the more I think about it the more thoughts I have The major users like Atlassian and Google forked Webwork a while ago I think and they don't run their stuff off the Struts2 code base. Don has been awesome for Struts2, but I don't know if there are any other commiters from Atlassian or G

Re: Concerned Strutszien: A Manifesto

2008-10-21 Thread dusty
Jeromy Evans - Blue Sky Minds wrote: > > I share similar sentiment. Whenever I take a critical look as to whether > to use struts2 I keep coming back to the conclusion that it's > fundamentally sound as far as java frameworks go. > I'd categorize the problem as not enough generals. Most of u

Re: Concerned Strutszien: A Manifesto

2008-10-21 Thread Bob Tiernay
I get the sense that CI + Maven is a like wrestling with a slinky. Is this problem endemic to s2? What do other open source projects do to alleviate this? My #1 issue is that it's *too difficult and time-consuming to create a release* on the 2.1 trunk. If releases are difficult and dependent

Re: Concerned Strutszien: A Manifesto

2008-10-21 Thread Jeromy Evans
dusty wrote: How do we tackle all this? Do we have a meeting? Do we create a Chief who can make decisions for better or for worse? Clearly decisions need to be made. Do we start StrutsCon 2009 and lock everyone in a room until the decisions are made? I started to also write apps in Rails an

Re: Concerned Strutszien: A Manifesto

2008-10-19 Thread Brian Pontarelli
* OGNL - Is is staying? Is it going? Can it be secure? Is it fast enough? I say drop it completely. No more evaluation in the JSPs or FTL files at all and use MVEL for the parameters interceptor. FTL has a good enough language and you have Java in JSPs if you need it. OGNL in there is

Re: Concerned Strutszien: A Manifesto

2008-10-19 Thread Al Sutton
* REST - Great way to organize web based applications Nobody is working on this right? I'm not working on it, but I have a few projects deployed using it, so i would wonder if it needs much in the way of work (if any at all). Al. --

Re: Concerned Strutszien: A Manifesto

2008-10-19 Thread Musachy Barroso
> > > * OGNL - Is is staying? Is it going? Can it be secure? Is it fast enough? > Params interceptor was the biggest security problem and it has been patched. It MVEL gets integrated then it will get interesting. > > * Convention - Buzz factor to me, but buzz none the less. I type pretty > fast

Concerned Strutszien: A Manifesto

2008-10-18 Thread dusty
Struts1 is arguably the most successful web framework, but it always felt heavy. It's how I found WebWork, which I am convinced is the greatest web framework. When WebWork made the move to Apache as Struts 2, I was excited since it meant this great framework would continue on after the great wor