Re: Jini : Separate Governance and Implementation Projects

2006-08-13 Thread Filip at Apache
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Craig.Russell wrote: It would appear then that the "Apache Jini" podling would be the [spec project], and the "to be named" podling the [implementation project]. Fortunately, the incubator should be warmed up for a naming discussion. Apache JINI and Apache JINN?

Re: Jini : Separate Governance and Implementation Projects

2006-08-13 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Craig L Russell wrote: > > On Aug 13, 2006, at 7:05 PM, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > >> As the champion for JINI, I suppose it behooves me to try and get this >> untangled. >> >> I'm not a Jini expert, but my understanding is that it is it's own spec >> ecosystem. Therefore, I'm against having o

RE: Jini : Separate Governance and Implementation Projects

2006-08-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Craig.Russell wrote: > It would appear then that the "Apache Jini" podling would be the > [spec project], and the "to be named" podling the [implementation > project]. Fortunately, the incubator should be warmed up for a > naming discussion. Apache JINI and Apache JINN? Deliberate play on words,

Re: [VOTE] Publish Lokahi M01

2006-08-13 Thread Dion Gillard
On 8/14/06, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Steve Toback wrote: > >> The Lokahi community voted on and has approved a proposal to release >> Lokahi M01. > > I see that Yoav voted +1, but neither Bill Stoddard nor William Rowe. Were > there reasons for tho

Re: [VOTE] Publish Lokahi M01

2006-08-13 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Steve Toback wrote: > >> The Lokahi community voted on and has approved a proposal to release >> Lokahi M01. > > I see that Yoav voted +1, but neither Bill Stoddard nor William Rowe. Were > there reasons for those non-votes? Travel and work commitments, nothing more ama

Re: [VOTE] Publish Lokahi M01

2006-08-13 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Steve Toback wrote: > The Lokahi community voted on and has approved a proposal to release > Lokahi M01. Pursuant to the Releases section of the Incubation Policy > we would now like to request the permission of the Incubator PMC to > publish the tarball on the Lokahi Download page. +1 Bill

Re: Jini : Separate Governance and Implementation Projects

2006-08-13 Thread Craig L Russell
On Aug 13, 2006, at 7:05 PM, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: As the champion for JINI, I suppose it behooves me to try and get this untangled. I'm not a Jini expert, but my understanding is that it is it's own spec ecosystem. Therefore, I'm against having one project doing software implementation

RE: Jini : Separate Governance and Implementation Projects

2006-08-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > I'd like to propose that we create two podlings, one for JINI > governance, and one for building the implementation and > community around the working code that has been proposed. > Comments? None of an objecting nature. Would this satisfy the desires of the JINI comm

RE: Jini?

2006-08-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Geir, >> If Sun is going to do the trademark assignment, there is no difference. >> We would have the trademark for the technology domain. And if you take >> into consideration the concurrent talk about specifications coming under >> ASF practices, that would dovetail nicely. > Sorry, I think it

RE: Specifications as (part of) ASF projects

2006-08-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: >> Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: >>> Noel J. Bergman wrote: Wait ... why can't a specification be a releasable, just like a codebase? The only issue, as I see it, would be enforcement of compliance. And Roy even put forward a proposed li

Jini : Separate Governance and Implementation Projects

2006-08-13 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
As the champion for JINI, I suppose it behooves me to try and get this untangled. I'm not a Jini expert, but my understanding is that it is it's own spec ecosystem. Therefore, I'm against having one project doing software implementation that is called "Jini", just as I'd be against projects like

Re: Jini?

2006-08-13 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > > It's an implementation of a spec. A single spec that is part of an > external spec-governing ecosystem, the JCP. "Jini" isn't a spec, it's > it's own spec ecosystem. It's not part of the JCP, for example. > > So Apache Jini is like saying Apache JCP (I'm stretching

Re: Jini?

2006-08-13 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: >> Noel J. Bergman wrote: >>> I don't know that the name is an issue at all, if Sun is willing to > transfer >>> the trademark to the ASF, as was done with SpamAssassin. The impression >>> that I have from Craig and others is that this is do-able

Re: Specifications as (part of) ASF projects

2006-08-13 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: >> Noel J. Bergman wrote: >>> Wait ... why can't a specification be a releasable, just like a >>> codebase? The only issue, as I see it, would be enforcement of >>> compliance. And Roy even put forward a proposed license amendment >>> for such t

RE: Jini?

2006-08-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > I don't know that the name is an issue at all, if Sun is willing to transfer > > the trademark to the ASF, as was done with SpamAssassin. The impression > > that I have from Craig and others is that this is do-able. According to > > Simon, thi

RE: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Craig.Russell wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: >> Cliff Schmidt wrote: >>> Just as I was posting the vote thread for the Glasgow project, I saw >>> Noel had updated the new wiki page with a concern about the name >>> collision with the old Sun codename >> Only because I hadn't seen Craig's e-mail fi

RE: Specifications as (part of) ASF projects

2006-08-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: >> Wait ... why can't a specification be a releasable, just like a >> codebase? The only issue, as I see it, would be enforcement of >> compliance. And Roy even put forward a proposed license amendment >> for such things. > Which license amendment

Re: Specifications as (part of) ASF projects (was RE: Too many licenses? Was: [vote] Accept Glasgow)

2006-08-13 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
What broken mail client are you using? inline... Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Carl Trieloff wrote: > >> -> Is Apache in the business of writing and publishing specifications? <- > >> As long as Apache is not in the business of also creating >> specifications, there will be by definition some separ

Re: Jini?

2006-08-13 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > >> I think that instead of spinning on this lock, we should move forward >> with some other name to get things booted, and then resolve the Jini >> name issue in parallel. > > I don't know that the name is an issue at all, if Sun is willing to

Re: Automating Report Reminders (and the Project Index)

2006-08-13 Thread david reid
Noel J. Bergman wrote: > david reid wrote: > >> Where is the information you maintain presently? > > The site is built from > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/public/trunk/, and the specific > stuff that you'd be looking for is in multiple locations: > > Projects (one file per): >

Re: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-13 Thread Craig L Russell
On Aug 13, 2006, at 11:50 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Cliff Schmidt wrote: Just as I was posting the vote thread for the Glasgow project, I saw Noel had updated the new wiki page with a concern about the name collision with the old Sun codename Only because I hadn't seen Craig's e-mail first

RE: [VOTE] Publish Lokahi M01

2006-08-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Steve Toback wrote: > The Lokahi community voted on and has approved a proposal to release > Lokahi M01. I see that Yoav voted +1, but neither Bill Stoddard nor William Rowe. Were there reasons for those non-votes? > http://people.apache.org/~toback/lokahi-incubating-M01.tar.gz The Incubator d

[VOTE] Publish Lokahi M01

2006-08-13 Thread Steve Toback
The Lokahi community voted on and has approved a proposal to release Lokahi M01. Pursuant to the Releases section of the Incubation Policy we would now like to request the permission of the Incubator PMC to publish the tarball on the Lokahi Download page. Thanks Steve Proposal: http://mail-arch

Re: Dynamic message selectors and message scheduling

2006-08-13 Thread robert . j . greig
One option in AMQP would be to write a custom exchange to handle the concept of delivery at a scheduled time. Exchanges are effectively an extension point in the protocol so that you can customise delivery algorithms. The Glasgow broker currently doesn't have a well defined API to allow the averag

Dynamic message selectors and message scheduling

2006-08-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
In the thread titled "RE: [Proposal] Blaze", James Strachan wrote: > Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Totally unrelated ... JMS has the ability to create a message filter, but > > one of the limitations is that the filter is applied when the receiver is > > created, rather than when

RE: Blaze and Openness of Standards (was Re: [Proposal] Blaze)

2006-08-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Cliff Schmidt wrote: > Just as I was posting the vote thread for the Glasgow project, I saw > Noel had updated the new wiki page with a concern about the name > collision with the old Sun codename Only because I hadn't seen Craig's e-mail first. :-) But I believe that we have ended up with a be

RE: incubation process for open development open source projects [WAS Re: Glasgow - community? specs? other issues?]

2006-08-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Eelco Hillenius wrote: > On 8/4/06, J Aaron Farr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > aren't "proven an actual community" and "work the standard > > 'apache way'" graduation requirements, not entry requirements? > > If we expect something coming into the incubator to already > > have a fully functioning

RE: incubation process for open development open source projects [WAS Re: Glasgow - community? specs? other issues?]

2006-08-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Alex Karasulu wrote: > You cannot put a time on how long the incubation will actually take > because things change and you never know if the podling is actually > meeting up to the requirements. Readers should keep in mind that Alex also brought an existing Open Source project, with community, to

Re: Specifications as (part of) ASF projects (was RE: Too many licenses? Was: [vote] Accept Glasgow)

2006-08-13 Thread Brian McCallister
On Aug 13, 2006, at 10:49 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Carl Trieloff wrote: -> Is Apache in the business of writing and publishing specifications? <- As long as Apache is not in the business of also creating specifications, there will be by definition some separation between code and spec p

Specifications as (part of) ASF projects (was RE: Too many licenses? Was: [vote] Accept Glasgow)

2006-08-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Carl Trieloff wrote: > -> Is Apache in the business of writing and publishing specifications? <- > As long as Apache is not in the business of also creating > specifications, there will be by definition some separation > between code and spec processes, and I would like to work > with the ASF to

RE: [RESULT] [VOTE] Glasgow accepted for incubation

2006-08-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Cliff, > The Glasgow proposal vote has passed with: > 6 binding +1s, 2 binding 0s, and 2 binding -1s. > There were also 5 non-binding +1s and 2 non-binding -1s. So 11 +1 and 4 -1. That passes by a fairly large majority, BUT the concerns of the dissenters should be addressed. The major one app

RE: Jini?

2006-08-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > I think that instead of spinning on this lock, we should move forward > with some other name to get things booted, and then resolve the Jini > name issue in parallel. I don't know that the name is an issue at all, if Sun is willing to transfer the trademark to the ASF,

Re: Jini?

2006-08-13 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
I'm going to reply to this as I found no good point in the thread. I think that instead of spinning on this lock, we should move forward with some other name to get things booted, and then resolve the Jini name issue in parallel. Clearly there's sufficient interest to see this become an Apache co

RE: Automating Report Reminders (and the Project Index)

2006-08-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
david reid wrote: > Where is the information you maintain presently? The site is built from https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/public/trunk/, and the specific stuff that you'd be looking for is in multiple locations: Projects (one file per): https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubat

Re: Automating Report Reminders (and the Project Index)

2006-08-13 Thread david reid
Noel J. Bergman wrote: > david reid wrote: >> Noel J. Bergman wrote: >>> david reid wrote: All I need is a list of when the project should report and the email address to send the reminder to. If you can provide those in an accessible format then I'll send out reminders without a pro