Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Leo Simons
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote: I would like to propose Flex to be an Apache Incubator project. Here's a link to the proposal: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/FlexProposal Pasted inline: = Apache Flex Proposal = == Abstract == Apache Flex is an

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Kalle Korhonen kalle.o.korho...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Agreed. That is/was my read, too. Even still, companies don't participate in ASF projects, individuals do. To me, the proposal implies Adobe is

Re: [VOTE] Bloodhound to join the Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
+1 (binding) On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:18 AM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 19, 2011 1:55 PM, Hyrum K Wright hyrum.wri...@wandisco.com wrote: It seems discussion on Bloodhound has died down, so it's time to call a VOTE. Please vote on the acceptance of Bloodhound into the

Re: [VOTE] Bloodhound to join the Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Alex Karasulu
Please vote: [X] +1 Accept Bloodhound for incubation [ ] +0 Don't care [ ] -1 Don't accept Bloodhound for incubation (please explain) The world needs a great issue tracker, and starting from the Trac base is Goodness. Indeed. +1 -- Best Regards, -- Alex

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote: On 12/19/11 3:39 PM, Raju Bitter rajubit...@googlemail.com wrote: ... 8) Open standards support The whole proposal does not mention open standards, JavaScript, or the buzz word HTML5. Again, it might make sense to make support

Re: [VOTE] Bloodhound to join the Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Hyrum K Wright
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Hyrum K Wright hyrum.wri...@wandisco.com wrote: It seems discussion on Bloodhound has died down, so it's time to call a VOTE.  Please vote on the acceptance of Bloodhound into the Apache Incubator. The proposal is available at [1] and its content is also

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Alex Harui
Yes, that is fine. On 12/20/11 2:27 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Kalle Korhonen kalle.o.korho...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Agreed. That is/was my read, too. Even still,

Re: [VOTE] Bloodhound to join the Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:55:17PM -0600, Hyrum K Wright wrote: Please vote: [ ] +1 Accept Bloodhound for incubation [ ] +0 Don't care [ ] -1 Don't accept Bloodhound for incubation (please explain) +1 (binding) Marvin Humphrey

Re: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating

2011-12-20 Thread sebb
On 20 December 2011 18:51, Neha Narkhede neha.narkh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Kafka community is excited to share that RC 8 for release of Kafka-0.7.0-incubating has been +1'd over at kafka-user@incubator. Please try it out and vote for the Apache Kafka 0.7.0-incubating release. This is the

Re: [VOTE] Bloodhound to join the Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Jean-Baptiste Onofré
+1 (binding) Regards JB On 12/20/2011 06:47 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:55:17PM -0600, Hyrum K Wright wrote: Please vote: [ ] +1 Accept Bloodhound for incubation [ ] +0 Don't care [ ] -1 Don't accept Bloodhound for incubation (please explain) +1 (binding) Marvin

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Raju Bitter
Hi Alex, re-reading the proposal, a few other questions came to my mind: 1) Flash Player SDK What are you referring to, when listing the Adobe Flash Player SDK under External Dependencies. The Adobe website says: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer_sdk/ Sorry, page not available, and

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 15:30, Raju Bitter rajubit...@googlemail.com wrote: ... 2) Action Script Virtual Machine (AVM) In November 2006 Adobe open source the Flash Player Script engine: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/press/mozilla-2006-11-07.html Is the source code of Tamarin still the current

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Dave McAllister
One small clarification. ActionScript is a variant off of ECMascript 3 (ES3). ECMAscript 4, which included significant functionality fromActionScript was removed from active standard development in favor of ECMAscript 5, a incremental update to ES3. http://adobe.ly/vO2EI6 ECMA is currently

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Raju Bitter
Thanks for the quick response, Greg! On 12/20/11 9:37 PM, Greg Stein wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 15:30, Raju Bitterrajubit...@googlemail.com wrote: ... 2) Action Script Virtual Machine (AVM) In November 2006 Adobe open source the Flash Player Script engine:

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Raju Bitter
Thanks, Dave, that's correct. Who will be managing/governing the ActionScript language, after Flex has been contributed to Apache? Is there a steering committee planned for the language? I can imagine that there are a number of products at Adobe using ActionScript 3. And changes to the language

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Carol Frampton
Marcel, Alex and I are currently working with one of Adobe's IP lawyers to examine our code dependencies and determine what license issues we may have and how best to resolve them. We will be better able to answer your question in a few weeks. Carol -Original Message- From: Marcel

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Raju Bitter
Carol, The legal stuff page for the Flex SDK (http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Legal+Stuff) mention 3 different downloads: * Free Adobe Flex SDK * Open Source Flex SDK * Adobe Add-ons for Open Source Flex SDK Is the SDK version which will be contributed to Apache the

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Carol Frampton
Raju, I believe Adobe is selling support contracts for Adobe Flex version 4.6. Apache Flex, although initially the same codebase as Adobe Flex 4.6, would be a different product. The community can take it in whatever direction it would like to go. Carol -Original Message- From: Raju

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Ross Gardler
The proposal says Existing Flex-related conferences, podcasts and websites should be allowed to continue using “Flex” as part of their name - Apache Flex will have to create guidelines for that. Whilst I don't see any problem with that in principle it would be really useful to itemise these items

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Raju Bitter
Thanks for that information, Carol! Based on this blog post on the Flex Summit it sounded like the company made an announcement on support contracts there: http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2011/12/13/flex-summit-updates-on-the-open-source-strategy-and-runtimes/ Thanks again, Raju 2011/12/20 Carol

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 12/20/2011 4:24 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: The proposal says Existing Flex-related conferences, podcasts and websites should be allowed to continue using “Flex” as part of their name - Apache Flex will have to create guidelines for that. Whilst I don't see any problem with that in principle

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Ross Gardler wrote on Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 22:24:54 +: The proposal says Existing Flex-related conferences, podcasts and websites should be allowed to continue using “Flex” as part of their name - Apache Flex will have to create guidelines for that. For those who don't know it already:

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Ross Gardler
On 20 December 2011 22:35, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: On 12/20/2011 4:24 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: The proposal says Existing Flex-related conferences, podcasts and websites should be allowed to continue using “Flex” as part of their name - Apache Flex will have to create

Re: [VOTE] Release jena-2.7.0-incubating (RC1)

2011-12-20 Thread Leo Simons
*bump*. We have 2 +1s from mentors already, so at a minimum we need just one more binding vote to do this release. Anyone have time to do the review? thanks! Leo On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Andy Seaborne a...@apache.org wrote: Please vote on releasing the following as  Apache Jena

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Alex Harui
Responses inline: On 12/20/11 12:30 PM, Raju Bitter rajubit...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Alex, re-reading the proposal, a few other questions came to my mind: 1) Flash Player SDK What are you referring to, when listing the Adobe Flash Player SDK under External Dependencies. The Adobe

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Alex Harui
Listing them might be nearly impossible. I don't think we know them all. What are the rules around something like: riaflex dot blogspot dot com Or www dot cflex dot net I think there's lots of sites like these out there. Thanks, -Alex On 12/20/11 2:24 PM, Ross Gardler

Re: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating

2011-12-20 Thread Neha Narkhede
Sebb, This makes sense. We will fix the NOTICE file and restart the VOTE on general@ today. Thanks for the feedback! -Neha On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:59 AM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 December 2011 18:51, Neha Narkhede neha.narkh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Kafka community is excited

RE: [VOTE] Bloodhound to join the Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Gavin McDonald
-Original Message- From: Hyrum K Wright [mailto:hyrum.wri...@wandisco.com] Sent: Tuesday, 20 December 2011 4:55 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc: Ian Wild Subject: [VOTE] Bloodhound to join the Incubator It seems discussion on Bloodhound has died down, so it's time to call

Re: [VOTE] Bloodhound to join the Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Marcel Offermans
+1 (binding) Good luck guys! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Raju Bitter
Thanks a lot, Alex. I just wanted to get a better understanding of how Apache Flex relates to Flash Player, Tamarin, Adobe AIR, and your responses really helped me to get a better understanding of the proposal. All I have heard/read so far sounds very promising. I like the direction Adobe is

[VOTE] Release Kafka-0.7.0-incubating

2011-12-20 Thread Neha Narkhede
Hi, Kafka community is excited to share RC 9 for release of Kafka-0.7.0-incubating. In the interest of saving time, and with the expectation that the one-liner change will pass the vote on kafka-users@, we will run a vote in parallel here. Vote thread

Re: [VOTE] Release jena-2.7.0-incubating (RC1)

2011-12-20 Thread Benson Margulies
+1 On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Leo Simons m...@leosimons.com wrote: *bump*. We have 2 +1s from mentors already, so at a minimum we need just one more binding vote to do this release. Anyone have time to do the review? thanks! Leo On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Andy Seaborne

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Raju Bitter
Alex, I have been watching this recording of a session in the Flex Summit a week ago: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/flex-community-summit-december-2011/open-discussion-about-falcon-and-falconjs/ Greg DeMichillie, Sr. Director of Product Management, and Danny Winokur, VP/GM Interactive Business Unit

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Greg Stein
I'd prefer to see Apache Flex voted on by itself, without tying the contribution to Falcon. I suspect there are more than enough people who are willing to have a go atbthisbwithout Falcon. Let's not strive for a perfect contribution from Adobe, and miss an opportunity for an excellent

Re: [VOTE] Release Kafka-0.7.0-incubating

2011-12-20 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
+1 from me (binding). KEYS check out: [chipotle:~/tmp/kafka-0.7.0] mattmann% curl -O http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/kafka/KEYS % Total% Received % Xferd Average Speed TimeTime Time Current Dload Upload Total SpentLeft Speed

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

2011-12-20 Thread Craig L Russell
On Dec 20, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: On 20 December 2011 22:35, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: On 12/20/2011 4:24 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: The proposal says Existing Flex-related conferences, podcasts and websites should be allowed to continue using “Flex” as part