Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-21 Thread Cliff Schmidt
On 12/21/05, Ian Holsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ted Leung wrote: > > > > On Dec 21, 2005, at 8:22 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > > > >> > >>> I think that the incubation process is setting an incredibly > >>> low bar for access to the Apache brand name > >> > >> And we require disclaimers and

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-21 Thread Ian Holsman
Ted Leung wrote: On Dec 21, 2005, at 8:22 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: I think that the incubation process is setting an incredibly low bar for access to the Apache brand name And we require disclaimers and clear notice that projects ARE in the Incubator. Look at how the folks are complai

[STATUS] (incubator) Wed Dec 21 23:55:30 2005

2005-12-21 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
APACHE INCUBATOR PROJECT STATUS: -*-indented-text-*- Last modified at [$Date: 2005-11-24 00:30:24 -0500 (Thu, 24 Nov 2005) $] Web site: http://Incubator.Apache.Org/ Wiki page: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ [note: the Web site is the 'official' documentation; the wiki

[Fwd: Re: AJAX Toolkit Framework Proposal]

2005-12-21 Thread Ian Holsman
put me down as a volunteer as well. Original Message Subject: Re: AJAX Toolkit Framework Proposal Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 09:08:04 -0500 From: Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org Organization: Holsman.NET Newsgroups: server.apache.incubator Refere

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 19:47 -0800, Greg Stein wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 11:16:13AM -0800, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > > Dumb question, is it a requirement that the incubating project move to > > the org.apache package? > > I would say "yes". Big +1. We of course cannot control standard AP

Re: [VOTE] @domain for Incubator mailing lists

2005-12-21 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Craig L Russell wrote: Excuse me, but don't we have a -1 on this vote thread already? Is the idea to get Dain to change his vote by piling on more +1? Or have I completely missed the Tao of the voting process in Apache? I think perhaps you have, and are mixing two concepts... Any PMC member (

Re: [VOTE] @domain for Incubator mailing lists

2005-12-21 Thread Greg Stein
+1 On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 11:49:14PM -0500, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Please vote on the following: > > New mailing lists should be created under the > @incubator.apache.org domain, just as all of > the other project resources, e.g., the web > site and SVN subtree. > > +1 from me. > >

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 11:16:13AM -0800, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > Dumb question, is it a requirement that the incubating project move to > the org.apache package? I would say "yes". Consider five years down the road. The pre-Incubator life of a project is a distant memory at that point. You're

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-21 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 12:57:59PM -0800, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > On Dec 21, 2005, at 11:04 AM, Ted Leung wrote: > >How is this possible when any other PMC can vote to bring a project > >in without approval of the incubator PMC? Just look at the raft of > >projects being brought in via Geroni

Re: AJAX Toolkit Framework Proposal

2005-12-21 Thread Sam Ruby
Craig McClanahan wrote: The Zimbra part of the proposal could, I suppose, be held to aim at that goal. If you believe proposing an Eclipse-only tooling story (apparently to the exlusion of at least some folks in the Eclipse Foundation :-) forwards this goal, I would suggest taking this part of

Re: [VOTE] @domain for Incubator mailing lists

2005-12-21 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Dec 21, 2005, at 4:21 PM, Craig L Russell wrote: I'm still looking for an ISO 2000-able mechanism (repeatable, documented, understandable) to migrate the email lists in the incubator domain to the eventual TLP domain without losing threads, context, etc. I see that Cocoon apparently has

Re: AJAX Toolkit Framework Proposal

2005-12-21 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 12/21/05, Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Craig McClanahan wrote: > > > >>From a software engineering viewpoint, focusing on a single tool > > Have you any other tools in mind? Bring them on! Actually, I don't -- tooling-specific adaptations of generic technologies seem best fitted to

Re: [VOTE] @domain for Incubator mailing lists

2005-12-21 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Dec 21, 2005, at 7:21 PM, Craig L Russell wrote: Excuse me, but don't we have a -1 on this vote thread already? Is the idea to get Dain to change his vote by piling on more +1? Or have I completely missed the Tao of the voting process in Apache? I thought that after a -1 the discussion

RE: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-21 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Jim Jagielski wrote: > I see the Incubator as a gatekeeper almost. See Roy's comments for an alternative view. As I understand his view, the gatekeeper role is limited to projects leaving the Incubator, not entering. > PMCs, in general, don't have an idea of the number of > podlings within the

RE: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-21 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Ted Leung wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > > The merits of the particular proposal aside > > We should always be judging the merits of each proposal. > > Failing to do so might well be part of the problem. > How is this possible when any other PMC can vote to bring a project > in without appr

Re: [VOTE] @domain for Incubator mailing lists

2005-12-21 Thread Dain Sundstrom
On Dec 21, 2005, at 4:21 PM, Craig L Russell wrote: Excuse me, but don't we have a -1 on this vote thread already? Is the idea to get Dain to change his vote by piling on more +1? Or have I completely missed the Tao of the voting process in Apache? I thought that after a -1 the discussion s

Re: [VOTE] @domain for Incubator mailing lists

2005-12-21 Thread Craig L Russell
Excuse me, but don't we have a -1 on this vote thread already? Is the idea to get Dain to change his vote by piling on more +1? Or have I completely missed the Tao of the voting process in Apache?I thought that after a -1 the discussion started again on the disagreements.I'm still looking for an IS

Re: [VOTE] @domain for Incubator mailing lists

2005-12-21 Thread Carsten Ziegeler
+1 Carsten Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Please vote on the following: > > New mailing lists should be created under the > @incubator.apache.org domain, just as all of > the other project resources, e.g., the web > site and SVN subtree. > > +1 from me. > > --- Noel > > -Original M

Re: AJAX Toolkit Framework Proposal

2005-12-21 Thread Adam Peller
Craig, Sam addressed the social engineering viewpoint; I'd like to talk about the software side: > Craig McClanahan wrote: >From a software engineering viewpoint, focusing on a single tool as a >delivery vehicle will tend to bias architectural and implementation >decisions towards what is easy to

Re: Re AJAX-Toolkit-Framework-Proposal

2005-12-21 Thread Sam Ruby
Jesse Kuhnert wrote: I chose tapestry as a web framework to use, and now contribute to, because I thought I was making the best choice as far as design and overall flexibility.(not to the detriment of other projects, just a personal choice..) It's a shame that all of the other considerations ha

Re AJAX-Toolkit-Framework-Proposal

2005-12-21 Thread Jesse Kuhnert
Though I'm still very new to ASF (recently added to tapestry) and the goings on of how everything works I thought I would voice my tiny little opinion into the fray as well. It seems that, at least from what I can tell, choosing a javascript library is a very personal sort of thing for most people

Re: storing documentation in Subversion

2005-12-21 Thread Roy T. Fielding
Similarily, storing bugs and issues information could be stored in SVN repository, all in human readable text format. Yes, this takes a lot of time. Am I talking too ideally? :) That's an interesting point. Issue tracking is another artifact that is not stored in SVN. Would it be useful

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-21 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Dec 21, 2005, at 11:04 AM, Ted Leung wrote: How is this possible when any other PMC can vote to bring a project in without approval of the incubator PMC? Just look at the raft of projects being brought in via Geronimo and the WS PMC. There's not a thing I can do, regardless of the meri

Re: AJAX Toolkit Framework Proposal

2005-12-21 Thread Sam Ruby
Craig McClanahan wrote: From a software engineering viewpoint, focusing on a single tool Have you any other tools in mind? Bring them on! Once again, let me state that the goal is to seed a non-exclusive AJAX community at the ASF. In case it isn't perfectly clear: including Zimbra isn't

Re: AJAX Toolkit Framework Proposal

2005-12-21 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 12/20/05, Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sylvain Wallez wrote: > > Adam Peller wrote: > [snip] > > So the questions are: > > - is the ASF the place for Eclipse extensions? I don't deny the ability > > to _existing_ project to host their tooling, but this isn't the case > here. > > As I

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-21 Thread Ted Leung
On Dec 21, 2005, at 8:22 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: The merits of the particular proposal aside We should always be judging the merits of each proposal. Failing to do so might well be part of the problem. How is this possible when any other PMC can vote to bring a project in without

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-21 Thread Ted Leung
On Dec 21, 2005, at 9:18 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Jim Jagielski wrote: There is one thing that I think would be useful in helping: That the Incubator PMC take an active role in accepting new projects. Normally, if the Sponsor says "Yes" a vote isn't even taken on the Incubator side. I think

Re: [VOTE] @domain for Incubator mailing lists

2005-12-21 Thread Ted Leung
+1 On Dec 17, 2005, at 8:49 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Please vote on the following: New mailing lists should be created under the @incubator.apache.org domain, just as all of the other project resources, e.g., the web site and SVN subtree. +1 from me. --- Noel -Original

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 18:02 +, James Strachan wrote: > Dims could you please give us a bit of time to get ServiceMix's house > in order first before we can start collaborating with other projects > in earnest. Don't worry there will be collaboration. +1! Sanjiva. --

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread James Strachan
On 21 Dec 2005, at 16:45, Davanum Srinivas wrote: Dan, Then at least the proposal should be honest enough, not to name names. If we don't know what ServiceMix's needs are, we cannot make sure the design of Synapse will fit right with ServiceMix. No one is asking for a code drop. Asking for inv

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread James Strachan
On 21 Dec 2005, at 14:42, Davanum Srinivas wrote: James, Incubation process is not set in stone. Just last week, we voted on standardizing the mailing list names. So it is a mix of good judgement, experience, consensus and rules. If you insist we can put start a VOTE on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-21 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
In theory, the sponsor and mentors are doing that continuously. geir On Dec 21, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Rob Davies wrote: I Also share these concerns - is there currently a process to have continuous reviews throughout the entire life-cycle of all new and existing projects - to ensure that eve

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-21 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Dec 21, 2005, at 12:18 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Jim Jagielski wrote: There is one thing that I think would be useful in helping: That the Incubator PMC take an active role in accepting new projects. Normally, if the Sponsor says "Yes" a vote isn't even taken on the Incubator side. I thin

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-21 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Let's put htis to the board today -- dims On 12/21/05, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Jagielski wrote: > > > There is one thing that I think would be useful in > > helping: That the Incubator PMC take an active role > > in accepting new projects. Normally, if the Sponsor > > say

RE: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-21 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Jim Jagielski wrote: > There is one thing that I think would be useful in > helping: That the Incubator PMC take an active role > in accepting new projects. Normally, if the Sponsor > says "Yes" a vote isn't even taken on the Incubator > side. I think that no matter what, unless overruled > by the

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-21 Thread Mads Toftum
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 11:38:52AM -0500, Jim Jagielski wrote: > There is one thing that I think would be useful in > helping: That the Incubator PMC take an active role > in accepting new projects. Normally, if the Sponsor > says "Yes" a vote isn't even taken on the Incubator > side. I think that

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Dan, Then at least the proposal should be honest enough, not to name names. If we don't know what ServiceMix's needs are, we cannot make sure the design of Synapse will fit right with ServiceMix. No one is asking for a code drop. Asking for involvement, i think that's what a community means. getti

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-21 Thread Jim Jagielski
There is one thing that I think would be useful in helping: That the Incubator PMC take an active role in accepting new projects. Normally, if the Sponsor says "Yes" a vote isn't even taken on the Incubator side. I think that no matter what, unless overruled by the board, the Incubator should vote

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread Dan Diephouse
Davanum Srinivas wrote: James, Incubation process is not set in stone. Just last week, we voted on standardizing the mailing list names. So it is a mix of good judgement, experience, consensus and rules. If you insist we can put start a VOTE on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think you are part of that as w

RE: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-21 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> The merits of the particular proposal aside We should always be judging the merits of each proposal. Failing to do so might well be part of the problem. > I think that the incubation process is setting an incredibly > low bar for access to the Apache brand name And we require disclaimers and

Re: "Closed for renovations" (was:Re: AJAX Toolkit Framework Proposal)

2005-12-21 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 12/21/05, Leo Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The ASF isn't very good at "saying no", at least not very loudly. All our > processes are geared at "saying yes" the right way and only if we feel > comfortable. It seems we have something to learn here, and its a bit scary > since this may ha

Re: AJAX Toolkit Framework Proposal

2005-12-21 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 12/21/05, Ted Leung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 20, 2005, at 12:19 PM, Sylvain Wallez wrote: > > > Sam Ruby wrote: > >> Sylvain Wallez wrote: > >> > >> As a general rule, the ASF doesn't go out "inviting", people > >> within the ASF either start a new project, or projects come to us. >

[HELP] Re: www.NameProtect.com -- Still free?

2005-12-21 Thread Ted Husted
Has anyone found a free link on nameprotect.com? Any insight on how incubating projects are suppose to clear trademarks now? Do we need to get an actual account or something? -Ted. On 11/27/05, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there there still a free search page at nameprotect.com ?

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-21 Thread Rob Davies
I Also share these concerns - is there currently a process to have continuous reviews throughout the entire life-cycle of all new and existing projects - to ensure that everything under the 'apache' brand is and will continue to be 'worthy' ? Sorry if there's already a process in place -

Re: AJAX Toolkit Framework Proposal

2005-12-21 Thread Raphaël Luta
Sam Ruby wrote: > Raphaël Luta wrote: > > > Overall, there is clearly strong interest in AJAX at the ASF, whether it > be based on Zimbra or Dojo or whatever. Furthermore, the proposal needs > to be revised, particularly to incorporate the people who have expressed > an interest in participating

Re: AJAX Toolkit Framework Proposal

2005-12-21 Thread Garrett Rooney
On 12/21/05, Ted Leung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd love to have a good AJAX project here at Apache, but I'm not at > all convinced that this is the best way to get it. I also talked to > Alex Russell at Dojo about coming to the ASF (at this year's OSCON), > and the overhead thing was alread

Growth

2005-12-21 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Folks, Right now any PMC can automatically ok projects into incubator. How about we change that rule? So that the only pmc that can approve a proposal is the incubator PMC. thanks, dims -- Davanum Srinivas : http://wso2.com/blogs/ ---

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-21 Thread Mads Toftum
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:50:28AM -0800, Ted Leung wrote: > The merits of the particular proposal aside, I wanted to comment on > this paragraph. This year at ApacheCon I was surprised to find that > a number of people also feel that the ASF is growing far too > quickly. I know that are

RE: AJAX Toolkit Framework Proposal

2005-12-21 Thread Mike Milinkovich
> Big assumption right there. I'll assert there's a reasonable > chance I understand what's under the hood of the Eclipse > platform quite well. IIRC I helped the Equinox people decide > on what to put in there at some point... Mea culpa. I was reacting to the comment about the "heavyweight

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread Davanum Srinivas
James, Incubation process is not set in stone. Just last week, we voted on standardizing the mailing list names. So it is a mix of good judgement, experience, consensus and rules. If you insist we can put start a VOTE on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think you are part of that as well. I did bring up issue

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-21 Thread Sam Ruby
Ted Leung wrote: On Dec 20, 2005, at 4:49 PM, Martin Cooper wrote: Corporations see the value of the brand name, that's why they want to come here and are willing to put up with all our overhead. I can't speak for all corporations, but I can speak to the proposals that I have dealt with at

Re: AJAX Toolkit Framework Proposal

2005-12-21 Thread Sam Ruby
Raphaël Luta wrote: Excellent post! It is nice to see somebody take the time to review the actual proposal. Overall, there is clearly strong interest in AJAX at the ASF, whether it be based on Zimbra or Dojo or whatever. Furthermore, the proposal needs to be revised, particularly to incorp

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-21 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Dec 21, 2005, at 4:50 AM, Ted Leung wrote: On Dec 20, 2005, at 4:49 PM, Martin Cooper wrote: Personally, I am less than happy at seeing yet another large project proposed from a corporate source (and IBM at that), along with a dozen new committers who have not earned their merit at the A

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread James Strachan
On 21 Dec 2005, at 13:02, Davanum Srinivas wrote: James, To be blunt, what is being done here? here's what i see as a casual observer to the infra list. - A bunch of projects are getting into Apache controlled by the same set of people (ServiceMix/ActiveMQ/XBean/WADI) Not really; see the comm

Re: AJAX Toolkit Framework Proposal

2005-12-21 Thread Adam Peller
Sanjiva, My bad. I just meant the AJAX toolkit portion of Zimbra. -adam Sanjiva Weerawarana

Re: storing documentation in Subversion

2005-12-21 Thread Trustin Lee
2005/12/20, Ross Gardler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I always have imagined a web-based wiki application which stores its > data in > > a certain directory in SVN repository. Perhaps, we could create this > kind > > of backend extension for our existing CMS. > > The problem is that we are unlikely t

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread Davanum Srinivas
James, To be blunt, what is being done here? here's what i see as a casual observer to the infra list. - A bunch of projects are getting into Apache controlled by the same set of people (ServiceMix/ActiveMQ/XBean/WADI) - Folks are getting completely unrelated projects into an umbrella project "Ge

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Dec 21, 2005, at 6:40 AM, James Strachan wrote: I think the package name change is currently not mandatory, but perhaps it should be. I'm not so sure. There's already various stuff at Apache that breaks this rule (SAX, DOM, JCP APIs such as stuff in geronimo- spec, the SCA specif

Re: "Closed for renovations" (was:Re: AJAX Toolkit Framework Proposal)

2005-12-21 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 21 déc. 05, à 12:01, Leo Simons a écrit : On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 04:49:29PM -0800, Martin Cooper wrote: Some comments: On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:54:03AM +0100, Raphaël Luta wrote: To me it raises all the possible incubation warning bells: Same feelings here, I agree with Martin's a

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread James Strachan
On 21 Dec 2005, at 11:22, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: On 12/21/05, James Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 20 Dec 2005, at 19:33, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: I wondered why this was mandatory; the purpose of the Java package name scheme is purely to avoid clashes; provided the .org domain name

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread James Strachan
On 21 Dec 2005, at 11:13, Leo Simons wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:59:11AM +, James Strachan wrote: On 20 Dec 2005, at 19:33, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: It's not actually a dumb question, but rather one that I always took for granted... I realized when asked by Alan that we never had the

Re: "Closed for renovations" (was:Re: AJAX Toolkit Framework Proposal)

2005-12-21 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 03:01 -0800, Leo Simons wrote: > > I have this urge to set up an "Under construction" sign on the incubator front > page with a subtitle along the lines of "closed for renovations"... +1, to give us a bit of soul searching time. We should put a cap on the renovation time - 2

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On 12/21/05, James Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 20 Dec 2005, at 19:33, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > I wondered why this was mandatory; the purpose of the Java package > name scheme is purely to avoid clashes; provided the .org domain name > is owned (& we'd be happy to donate to Apache)

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread Leo Simons
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:59:11AM +, James Strachan wrote: > On 20 Dec 2005, at 19:33, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > >It's not actually a dumb question, but rather one that I always > >took for granted... I realized when asked by Alan that we never had > >the need to codify it... > > Yeah -

"Closed for renovations" (was:Re: AJAX Toolkit Framework Proposal)

2005-12-21 Thread Leo Simons
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 04:49:29PM -0800, Martin Cooper wrote: > Some comments: On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:54:03AM +0100, Rapha?l Luta wrote: > To me it raises all the possible incubation warning bells: Two convincing posts. > In summary I see this proposal as a high risk, low value offer to t

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread James Strachan
On 20 Dec 2005, at 19:33, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: It's not actually a dumb question, but rather one that I always took for granted... I realized when asked by Alan that we never had the need to codify it... Yeah - I've never seen it actually written down anywhere & noticed that the Rolle

Re: AJAX Toolkit Framework Proposal

2005-12-21 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Leo Simons wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 04:14:22PM +0100, Sylvain Wallez wrote: I'm quite puzzled by this proposal. As I understand it, its mainly about a set of Eclipse plugins for Ajax applications and the Zimbra library that, among other features, provides a set of SWT-like widgets.

Re: AJAX Toolkit Framework Proposal

2005-12-21 Thread Ted Leung
On Dec 20, 2005, at 12:19 PM, Sylvain Wallez wrote: Sam Ruby wrote: Sylvain Wallez wrote: As a general rule, the ASF doesn't go out "inviting", people within the ASF either start a new project, or projects come to us. You're playing with words. Sure, there's no formal invitation process

Re: AJAX Toolkit Framework Proposal

2005-12-21 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Martin Cooper wrote: Some comments: +1 to all your points. Personally, I am less than happy at seeing yet another large project proposed from a corporate source (and IBM at that), along with a dozen new committers who have not earned their merit at the ASF as most committers have. I feel

Re: AJAX Toolkit Framework Proposal

2005-12-21 Thread Ted Leung
On Dec 21, 2005, at 12:56 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 22:10 -0800, Cliff Schmidt wrote: However, after having been on the other side of this discussion during the Synapse startup with the hullabaloo caused by ObjectWeb folks, I have no patience for any kind of "this sp

Re: AJAX Toolkit Framework Proposal

2005-12-21 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 04:49:29PM -0800, Martin Cooper wrote: > Some comments: > > 1) This appears to be two proposals rolled into one. One is to incubate a Yup. And Adam responded with the dreaded "subproject" word. We determined a good while back that "umbrella" projects are bad. So *starting

Re: AJAX Toolkit Framework Proposal

2005-12-21 Thread Raphaël Luta
Martin Cooper wrote: > > Personally, I am less than happy at seeing yet another large project > proposed from a corporate source (and IBM at that), along with a dozen new > committers who have not earned their merit at the ASF as most committers > have. I feel the ASF is losing its way, and becomi

Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-21 Thread Ted Leung
On Dec 20, 2005, at 4:49 PM, Martin Cooper wrote: Personally, I am less than happy at seeing yet another large project proposed from a corporate source (and IBM at that), along with a dozen new committers who have not earned their merit at the ASF as most committers have. I feel the ASF is

Re: Incubator Guidelines Documentation

2005-12-21 Thread Trustin Lee
Hi all, 2005/12/18, David Crossley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > Jean Anderson and Eddie O'Neil have volunteered to help redact our > collected > > wisdom into a coherent guide. Cliff Schmidt will contribute on the > legal/IP > > side. Henri Yandell has volunteered to revie

Re: AJAX Toolkit Framework Proposal

2005-12-21 Thread Leo Simons
Mike, dude... On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 10:32:25PM -0500, Mike Milinkovich wrote: > > Hmm. I think your email is more puzzling to me than the > > original proposal :-) (A heavyweight java-based IDE for doing > > what's essentially designed as "lightweight" stuff... > > It seems that your understa