Gauging interest for incubating PDFBox...

2007-05-07 Thread Jeremias Maerki
At ApacheCon last week, I got the impression that quite a few Apache projects (especially the Lucene and XML Graphics communities) have a particular interest in PDFBox, a library for manipulating PDF files (BSD license): http://www.pdfbox.org Ben Litchfield, PDFBox's main author, has contacted

Re: Gauging interest for incubating PDFBox...

2007-05-07 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On 5/7/07, Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, after hearing PDFBox mentioned many times last week, I thought it might be a good idea to ask around inside a wider area to see how the ASF is potentially interested in adopting PDFBox among its projects. At least Jackrabbit and

Graduation Guide [WAS Re: [VOTE][policy] Remove post-graduation check list from policy document]

2007-05-07 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 5/7/07, Craig L Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The guides/graduation.html is absent from the left navbar. If you update the stylesheet so it appears there, then I'm ok with removing it. Maybe it belongs as a sub-bullet under Podling Guides as the last entry. it's just a draft ATM (which

Re: Graduation Guide [WAS Re: [VOTE][policy] Remove post-graduation check list from policy document]

2007-05-07 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 5/7/07, Martijn Dashorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll include the points from the policy files that are still absent in the graduation guide and will be removed from the policy. great if you could edit down leo's post on the hand over then that would be good i'm going to take a look at

Re: [POLL] Incubator Maven Repository

2007-05-07 Thread Leo Simons
On May 6, 2007, at 1:57 PM, robert burrell donkin wrote: incubator distributions need to be stored under /www/www.apache.org/ dist AFACT there are two reasonable options: either create repositories under /www.apache.org/dist/incubator or use the standard maven ones I don't understand the

Re: Gauging interest for incubating PDFBox...

2007-05-07 Thread Bernd Fondermann
On 5/7/07, Jukka Zitting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On 5/7/07, Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, after hearing PDFBox mentioned many times last week, I thought it might be a good idea to ask around inside a wider area to see how the ASF is potentially interested in adopting

Re: Graduation Guide [WAS Re: [VOTE][policy] Remove post-graduation check list from policy document]

2007-05-07 Thread Craig L Russell
This sounds like a good plan. Craig On May 7, 2007, at 1:31 AM, Martijn Dashorst wrote: I'll include the points from the policy files that are still absent in the graduation guide and will be removed from the policy. Martijn On 5/7/07, robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: Gauging interest for incubating PDFBox...

2007-05-07 Thread Thilo Goetz
Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On 5/7/07, Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, after hearing PDFBox mentioned many times last week, I thought it might be a good idea to ask around inside a wider area to see how the ASF is potentially interested in adopting PDFBox among its projects. At

Re: [PROPOSAL] Fix Release Distribution (Outside maven repo)

2007-05-07 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
robert burrell donkin wrote: infra requires that all releases are contained within /www/www.apache.org/dist/. here's my proposal for fixing the current situation for standard (non-maven) releases: 1 clarify policy (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-62) 2 explain policy in

Re: [VOTE][policy] Remove post-graduation check list from policy document

2007-05-07 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
robert burrell donkin wrote: the current policy document unnecessarily specifies actions to be done after graduation. i would like to see these removed from policy and replaced by a link to the graduation guide. agree/ What has to happen beyond and outside of incubator isn't actually our

Re: [POLL] Incubator Maven Repository

2007-05-07 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Xavier Hanin wrote: On 5/6/07, Martijn Dashorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is already a concern for existing projects coming from outside Apache. It is completely and easily possible to become dependent on both org.apache.wicket/wicket-1.3.0-incubating-beta1.jar and

Re: [PROPOSAL] Fix Release Distribution (Outside maven repo)

2007-05-07 Thread Henri Yandell
+1, and apologies for losing energy on doing all this after the last vote/enormous thread. Hen On 5/6/07, robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: infra requires that all releases are contained within /www/www.apache.org/dist/. here's my proposal for fixing the current situation for

Re: [PROPOSAL] Fix Release Distribution (Outside maven repo)

2007-05-07 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 5/7/07, Leo Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 6, 2007, at 1:45 PM, robert burrell donkin wrote: 7 create directories for all current podlings with standard layout and appropriate permissions. README.html documents will contain the disclaimer I would prefer to see a tool created that

Re: [PROPOSAL] Fix Release Distribution (Outside maven repo)

2007-05-07 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi Robert, On May 7, 2007, at 12:04 AM, robert burrell donkin wrote: On 5/7/07, Craig L Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Robert, +1 for getting this going. My only concern is the slightly ambiguous #7. I don't know that there is a standard layout for releases. It sure would be nice.

Re: WARNING - 2 days to deadline for May reports

2007-05-07 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/May2007 RCF Tika TSIK aren't in the list at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ReportingSchedule so I'm a bit confused. If they don't report - please remove.