Re: Tea Time with the Trolls (Was: Re: Proposal for change)

2006-04-27 Thread Dakota Jack
I really have to disagree with this Jonathan. I don't think Warner has the mettle to be sarcastic. Maybe sardonic at best; not sarcastic. On 4/27/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Daniel Warner wrote: > > I know you're being sarcastic, but in your attempts at sarcasm, you > ac

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-27 Thread Dakota Jack
Jonathan has the patience of a saint in answering people like you. I don't. I am not 10 years old and have no interest in this sort of discussion. Grow up! On 4/27/06, Daniel Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please forgive me for feeding the trolls and wasting bandwidth. I > know, it make

Re: Tea Time with the Trolls (Was: Re: Proposal for change)

2006-04-27 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Daniel Warner wrote: I think I see a pattern here. Put a short email in favor of Apache to Jonathan, and you get a huge one in return. Well, if you didn't want me to respond, you shouldn't have written your comments. The more you try to actually argue with his points, the longer and more

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-27 Thread Michael Jouravlev
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Tea Time with the Trolls (Was: Re: Proposal for change)

2006-04-27 Thread Daniel Warner
I think I see a pattern here. Put a short email in favor of Apache to Jonathan, and you get a huge one in return. The more you try to actually argue with his points, the longer and more condescending the response. It is almost like free energy! Someone ought to invent a power station to harness

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-27 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Daniel Warner wrote: On 4/27/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dakota Jack wrote: Doesn't this kind of talk sound goofy to you all? Isn't this reference to the Apache Way sort of like a secret handshake and a silly hat? It's all that, yes, but it's also not very honest, I'd s

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-27 Thread Daniel Warner
Please forgive me for feeding the trolls and wasting bandwidth. I know, it makes me no better than they are and this apology is meaningless since I am going to keep doing it for a little while. but they are just such cute little trolls with those adorable nicknames and tiny perspectives! Ser

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-27 Thread Dakota Jack
People do not do "work" around here because it is not rewarded. The people who are rewarded are political. Then they do the work and the work looks like coding by politicians. I can remember going into the file upload section and seeing one of the worst messes I have ever seen in an open source

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-27 Thread Daniel Warner
On 4/27/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dakota Jack wrote: > > Doesn't this kind of talk sound goofy to you all? Isn't this reference to > > the Apache Way sort of like a secret handshake and a silly hat? > > It's all that, yes, but it's also not very honest, I'd say. > > You see

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-27 Thread Kimani Darisha
z... On 4/27/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > blah, blah, blah, bla blah, blah, blah, bla blah, blah, blah, bla > blah, blah, blah, bla blah, blah, blah, bla blah, blah, blah, bla > blah, blah, blah, bla blah, blah, blah, bla blah, blah, blah, bla > blah, blah,

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-27 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Dakota Jack wrote: Doesn't this kind of talk sound goofy to you all? Isn't this reference to the Apache Way sort of like a secret handshake and a silly hat? It's all that, yes, but it's also not very honest, I'd say. You see, the various scripture on the so-called "Apache Way" claims that t

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-26 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Wed, April 26, 2006 8:01 am, Jonathan Revusky said: > On Frank Z., the equivalent numbers I get are: > > 1231 on struts-user and 381 on struts-devel 1612 total. > > To see how I searched, see, for example: > > http://search.gmane.org/?query=&email=Frank+Zammetti&group=gmane.comp.jakarta.struts.

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-26 Thread Kimani Darisha
The only thing assinine here is that people keep repying to these damn trolls If you ignore trolls, they go away. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-26 Thread Kimani Darisha
The only thing assinine here is that people keep repying to these damn trolls If you ignore trolls, they go away. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-26 Thread Dakota Jack
What is stupid or assinine is to suggest that the problem is that I cannot count. That is typical of you snipers. You do everything to avoid the real issues. Look at the entries for Reddin and look at the entries for other people. In my opinion you have to be addled not to see that he is brough

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-26 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Jonathan Revusky wrote: Martin Cooper wrote: On 4/25/06, Dakota Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is the kind of stupid, assinine comment What is stupid or assinine about pointing out that your count is incorrect? It *is* incorrect. You counted 4 posts to the dev list. To quote you

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-26 Thread Jonathan Revusky
Martin Cooper wrote: On 4/25/06, Dakota Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is the kind of stupid, assinine comment What is stupid or assinine about pointing out that your count is incorrect? It *is* incorrect. You counted 4 posts to the dev list. To quote you directly: "I count four (4)

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Martin Cooper
On 4/25/06, Dakota Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is the kind of stupid, assinine comment What is stupid or assinine about pointing out that your count is incorrect? It *is* incorrect. You counted 4 posts to the dev list. To quote you directly: "I count four (4) posts to the dev list i

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
I come up with 2073 for me since 4/2004 (yeah, and I Google myself every now and again too... so shoot me! LOL) I wouldn't put much stock in these numbers frankly... I don't really believe I've posted *only* 2073 messages in two years... hell, I probably posted that many LAST MONTH! :-) Fran

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread netsql
You are bluffing Jack! .V Dakota Jack wrote: I am also strongly considering just never coming back here. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Dakota Jack
Also, by the way, it is mostly about getting tiles to shale, etc, and clearly is not based on Struts. On 4/25/06, Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/25/06, Dakota Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Here is a case in point: I count four (4) posts to the dev list in Greg > > Red

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Dakota Jack
This is the kind of stupid, assinine comment that is really what trolling is all about. There are clearly more than I found by doing a general search for Redding. Try doing one for Frank and see what happens, Martin. I really could vomit when I hear that feminine English "pity". On 4/25/06, Mart

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Martin Cooper
On 4/25/06, Dakota Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here is a case in point: I count four (4) posts to the dev list in Greg > Reddin's history. Pity you can't count. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?w=2&r=1&s=greg.reddin&q=a -- Martin Cooper He is a committer. On the user list there is al

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Dakota Jack
If you thought waiting like you were asked would help at all, Patrick, you are probably about to learn your first lesson in Struts-Shale-JSF-Craig-Apache Way. On 4/25/06, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/25/06, Patrick Lightbody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Any chance tha

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Dakota Jack
Doesn't this kind of talk sound goofy to you all? Isn't this reference to the Apache Way sort of like a secret handshake and a silly hat? Let's say what the Struts Way is. It is not, I would strongly suggest even slightly related to the Apache Way. I am also strongly considering just never comi

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Dakota Jack
Here is a case in point: I count four (4) posts to the dev list in Greg Reddin's history. He is a committer. On the user list there is also virtually nothing. What stands out is that he was interested in a couple of posts in Shale. What is the possible reason he is a committer and Frank is not

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread netsql
And I have a theory: Code emails scare trolls. It may actually increase the noise to signal .V Craig McClanahan wrote: I've historically been a holdout on this issue (based on the philosophy that anyone who is interested in the development of a project should be watching the commit messages to

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Wendy Smoak
On 4/25/06, Patrick Lightbody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any chance that as you discuss this there would be a move to make dev@ not > receive all commit@ messages? Some of us (me) prefer to use RSS and forcing > the emails seems a bit heavy handed. I remember this request from the last time t

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Ted Husted
On 4/25/06, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW, this (four lists) is what the ADF Faces incubator podling chose > (dev,user,issues,commits). There's actually yet one more category of > automated messages (wiki changes), but I suspect the volume of those is low > enough not to bothe

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 4/25/06, Patrick Lightbody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any chance that as you discuss this there would be a move to make dev@ not > receive all commit@ messages? Some of us (me) prefer to use RSS and forcing > the emails seems a bit heavy handed. I've historically been a holdout on this iss

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Patrick Lightbody
Any chance that as you discuss this there would be a move to make dev@ not receive all commit@ messages? Some of us (me) prefer to use RSS and forcing the emails seems a bit heavy handed. - Posted via Jive Forums http://forums.op

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 4/25/06, Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/25/06, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Actually, there are three public lists. > > > > * user@ for helping people use the product > > * dev@ for discussing changes to the product > > * commit@ for logging changes to the product

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Wendy Smoak
On 4/25/06, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, there are three public lists. > > * user@ for helping people use the product > * dev@ for discussing changes to the product > * commit@ for logging changes to the product > > Right now, we have the issue trackers and wiki posting to dev

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Don Brown
Ted Husted wrote: On 4/25/06, Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There! You've said it. That exactly describes the purpose of the dev@ list. So, now, why again do we need the three lists you mention above? ;-) Actually, there are three public lists. * user@ for helping people use the pr

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Ted Husted
On 4/25/06, Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There! You've said it. That exactly describes the purpose of the dev@ list. > So, now, why again do we need the three lists you mention above? ;-) Actually, there are three public lists. * user@ for helping people use the product * dev@ for d

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Greg Reddin
On Apr 25, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Frank W. Zammetti wrote: Out of curiosity, does the idea of a nominee accepting a nomination before the PMC discusses and votes alleviate your concerns at all? Not if the discussion occurs on a public list and the concerns don't exist if they occur on a privat

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Nathan Bubna
On 4/25/06, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, April 25, 2006 3:42 pm, Nathan Bubna said: > >> Question: does submitting a patch have to mean having the patch > >> accepted? > >> At first glance, the obvious answer is yes, but I'm not so sure it's > >> really the obvious answer.

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Nathan Bubna
On 4/25/06, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, April 25, 2006 3:10 pm, Martin Cooper said: > >> This is where I'm not sure I agree... why can you only have a stake in > >> the > >> code, or in the community even, if you are a committer? And certainly > >> the > >> "community" i

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, April 25, 2006 3:42 pm, Nathan Bubna said: >> Question: does submitting a patch have to mean having the patch >> accepted? >> At first glance, the obvious answer is yes, but I'm not so sure it's >> really the obvious answer... if someone has submitted a number of >> patches >> that were not

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, April 25, 2006 3:19 pm, Paul Speed said: > Sure, if just always seems to me that the "I want to be a committer" > guys that haven't contributed any code are 100% ego. They just want > their name on the list. To them, forking the code is not at all > appealing since they only want the reco

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Nathan Bubna
On 4/25/06, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, April 25, 2006 6:45 am, Ted Husted said: > > From an ASF perspective, the "community" is not everyone who > > subscribes to the mailing list and downloads the product. The > > community is the set of individuals who contribute to t

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Paul Speed
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: However, if I were to come up with one now, I would say it is simply to help ensure that Action1 does not die, and more than that, is allowed to evolve. I know it isn't going away, I know support isn't being dropped, I know all that. I also know that Ted has said he

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Paul Speed
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: [...] I don't think it is accurate to think that ego doesn't play a part in just about everything that just about everyone does. We all want to see our work benefit others. For most of us I believe its because we genuinely like the feeling we get when someone write

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, April 25, 2006 3:10 pm, Martin Cooper said: >> This is where I'm not sure I agree... why can you only have a stake in >> the >> code, or in the community even, if you are a committer? And certainly >> the >> "community" is often touted as the most important part of any ASF >> project... it

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, April 25, 2006 2:32 pm, Martin Cooper said: > One thing I'll add, though. The problem appears to be perception, and > reality doesn't, in my opinion and as evidenced below, match that > perception. Therefore the solution should be addressing the _perception_ > of > the way Struts is working

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Martin Cooper
On 4/25/06, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, April 25, 2006 2:22 pm, Paul Speed said: > > > > > > Frank W. Zammetti wrote: > > > >> > >> You are of course right about this. But, much like taking the ideas > >> about > >> inventory control and order processing and such from

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, April 25, 2006 2:41 pm, Martin Cooper said: >> For me, the community would be "anyone who has an active interest in how >> the project develops". > > > There! You've said it. That exactly describes the purpose of the dev@ > list. > So, now, why again do we need the three lists you mention a

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, April 25, 2006 2:22 pm, Paul Speed said: > > > Frank W. Zammetti wrote: > >> >> You are of course right about this. But, much like taking the ideas >> about >> inventory control and order processing and such from Dell and starting >> your own business is possible, the likelihood that you w

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Martin Cooper
On 4/25/06, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, I considered doing that... but as my proposal was specifically *for* > the community, I felt it important to put the most number of eyeballs on > it as possible. > > You know, perhaps we need *three* mailing lists... one for devs, on

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Martin Cooper
On 4/24/06, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/24/06, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > * Rationale > > One of the issues that a number of people seem to have with the way > > Struts has progressed is the seeming inability (or difficulty at least) > > of getting

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Paul Speed
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: You are of course right about this. But, much like taking the ideas about inventory control and order processing and such from Dell and starting your own business is possible, the likelihood that you would get anything but a small fraction of the attention and busine

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, April 25, 2006 1:38 pm, Greg Reddin said: > > On Apr 25, 2006, at 9:55 AM, Frank W. Zammetti wrote: > >> That depends entirely on your meaning of the word "closed". You >> make the >> argument that the number of new committers means it isn't closed, >> and I >> agree with you to a degree.

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Greg Reddin
On Apr 25, 2006, at 9:55 AM, Frank W. Zammetti wrote: That depends entirely on your meaning of the word "closed". You make the argument that the number of new committers means it isn't closed, and I agree with you to a degree. But that's not the only meaning of "closed"... the invitations

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, April 25, 2006 6:45 am, Ted Husted said: > I should mention that proposals for change are best sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > This > list is meant for people who want help using a product. Changes to the > project are best discussed on [EMAIL PROTECTED] We should get back on task as > to > t

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, April 25, 2006 12:36 am, Craig McClanahan said: > Without commenting on the merit of the proposal itself, or the reasoning > presented as its justification, it is important to note that we (the > Struts > community) do not have free reign to do whatever we want in this regard. > As > part o

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, April 25, 2006 1:17 am, Craig McClanahan said: > The latter statement is, as mentioned in my previous response, the way > that > *all* projects at Apache work -- it is not unique to Struts. Any claim > that > all of Apache is broken in this regard is going to be, umm, unlikely to be > agr

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Niall Pemberton
I'm in favour of this for the reasons I put forward in response to Craig's post. I have no idea whether it will have the desired effect or not - but IMO its a good idea and I think we should give it a go. Niall On 4/25/06, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Struts community, > >

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Ted Husted
On 4/24/06, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Proposed Change: I should mention that proposals for change are best sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is meant for people who want help using a product. Changes to the project are best discussed on [EMAIL PROTECTED] We should get bac

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-24 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 4/24/06, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Rationale > One of the issues that a number of people seem to have with the way > Struts has progressed is the seeming inability (or difficulty at least) > of getting "new blood" involved. There seems to be a perception by many > that

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-24 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 4/24/06, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I look forward to feedback. Thanks for listening! Without commenting on the merit of the proposal itself, or the reasoning presented as its justification, it is important to note that we (the Struts community) do not have free reign

Proposal for change

2006-04-24 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Dear Struts community, We have seen a rash of what most people consider "noise" on these lists recently, and I can't deny that I was even part of some of it (although I hope somewhat more constructively than some). However, underlying the "noise" I feel were a few valid points worth consider