RE: Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-08-07 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Johan Compagner wrote: The feeling i get from the mail below is that incubator releases are not really meant for all end users.. You really only want the users that really knows that it is an incubator release. But for me wicket-2.0 will be a full release a real release that every user of

Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-08-03 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On 8/3/06, Alex Karasulu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: ...BTW, if it's useful I'd be happy to help as an additional mentor... ...We welcome you. There can never be enough mentors. ok, so feel free to add my name to the list! -Bertrand

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-08-03 Thread Alex Karasulu
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On 8/3/06, Alex Karasulu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: ...BTW, if it's useful I'd be happy to help as an additional mentor... ...We welcome you. There can never be enough mentors. ok, so feel free to add my name to the list! Done!

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-08-01 Thread Ross Gardler
Igor Vaynberg wrote: hi Ross, great to hear you are enjoying wicket so much but i also hope you realize 2.0 is pre-alpha and is a moving target api-wise. hope you like refactoring :) Thanks for the heads up. I do realise this. My project is non urgent and I intend to be actively involved

Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-08-01 Thread Johan Compagner
The feeling i get from the mail below is that incubator releases are not really meant for all end users.. You really only want the users that really knows that it is an incubator release. But for me wicket-2.0 will be a full release a real release that every user of wicket should be able to use

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-08-01 Thread Johan Compagner
Your very welcome on the wicket lists. And i do like that you choose 2.0 I would really like much more feedback of users of the 2.0 trunk! johan On 8/1/06, Ross Gardler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Igor Vaynberg wrote: hi Ross, great to hear you are enjoying wicket so much but i also hope you

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-08-01 Thread Leo Simons
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 12:30:14AM -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Leo Simons wrote: Its a little bit itchy to read about complying with rules or about who decides. When you get right down to it, legally, the person who decides is the VP. And I can count on the fingers of 0 hands how many

Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-31 Thread Martijn Dashorst
Sorry for this lengthy response, but I got a negative vibe from several reactions to this thread and I feel a need to vent my concerns. First I am a big fan of Apache and the Apache community. I think that the way Apache works is a great example of how a community effort can produce great

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-31 Thread Upayavira
Martijn Dashorst wrote: Sorry for this lengthy response, but I got a negative vibe from several reactions to this thread and I feel a need to vent my concerns. First I am a big fan of Apache and the Apache community. I think that the way Apache works is a great example of how a community

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-31 Thread Gwyn Evans
I'll start by saying I'm not deeply involved in the roadmap plans, so pay more attention to the other devs, but this seems a possible position to me, i.e. All source hosted at ASF, lists web moved to ASF. - 1.2.x Continue in maintainance/bug-fix mode 'wicket.*' package name

Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-31 Thread Martijn Dashorst
You say One of those is to be able to build releases for our community: do you mean that you are unhappy with the stated need to release from Apache and mark with Incubating (i.e. you want to release 1.x from SF)? Or if you were to bring the 1.x branches over to Apache, would you be prepared to

Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-31 Thread Martijn Dashorst
You summarized my thoughts exactly :-) Martijn On 7/31/06, Gwyn Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll start by saying I'm not deeply involved in the roadmap plans, so pay more attention to the other devs, but this seems a possible position to me, i.e. All source hosted at ASF, lists web

Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-31 Thread Igor Vaynberg
we have updated the versions section of our proposal to reflect this. please review and lets discuss, basically we would like to incubate 1.3 as well as 2.0. http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/WicketProposal -Igor On 7/31/06, Martijn Dashorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You summarized my

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-31 Thread Timothy Bennett
On 7/26/06, Eelco Hillenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Don! Thanks Upayavira, Alexa, Sylvain, Timothy and the others that have officially or unofficially championed Wicket. We hope that Wicket will make a valuable addition to Apache, and we are looking forward to get to know you guys

Re: Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-31 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On 7/27/06, Martijn Dashorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As releases marked as incubated will probably raise an eyebrow or two, what are our options?... Seen from another angle, releases marked incubating are a great way to help make your community aware of what's happening. Along with a

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-31 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On 7/26/06, Upayavira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Wicket developers (http://wicket.sourceforge.net) have expressed a desire to incubate their project within the ASF Big +1 here. I've been looking at Wicket recently, and from a technical point of view I like what I see *a lot*. Your

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-31 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On 7/26/06, Upayavira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Wicket developers (http://wicket.sourceforge.net) have expressed a desire to incubate their project within the ASF BTW, if it's useful I'd be happy to help as an additional mentor. I'm not (yet) using Wicket though, so others might be

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-31 Thread Ross Gardler
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On 7/26/06, Upayavira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Wicket developers (http://wicket.sourceforge.net) have expressed a desire to incubate their project within the ASF BTW, if it's useful I'd be happy to help as an additional mentor. I'm not (yet) using Wicket

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-31 Thread Igor Vaynberg
hi Ross, great to hear you are enjoying wicket so much but i also hope you realize 2.0 is pre-alpha and is a moving target api-wise. hope you like refactoring :) -Igor On 7/31/06, Ross Gardler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On 7/26/06, Upayavira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-31 Thread Eelco Hillenius
Second that. Though we should be pretty near beta and a more stable API. I think models are the last part we're debating right now. We plan to stabilize 2.0's API within the next two months. Eelco On 7/31/06, Igor Vaynberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi Ross, great to hear you are enjoying

RE: Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
i would much rather see wicket-1.2.2 rather then wicket-incubating-1.2.2 as a release. to me incubating says not ready for production use. Keep in mind that the Incubator has very little interest in users using the code. Our focus is entirely on developers, and users are interesting only if

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-31 Thread Igor Vaynberg
i am getting a lot of mixed messages here. we have been told that -incubating is nothing more then a tag that the project is in the incubator and does not at all reflect the quality of the release nor its readiness for production use, but following is the opposite view taken from the maven2 repo

RE: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: In general, what I recommend projects to do is follow what SA did Keep in mind that SA *had* to do it, because they had licensing problems with their earlier code. As a general thing, it would be best for the developer community if they could have all of their code in

Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-31 Thread Dion Gillard
This seems a little ridiculous. What point is there in having something incubated if there are no users? What sort of a community would it be that didn't accept feedback and evolve based on that feedback? How many users are willing to wait 6+ months to use something just because it is undergoing

RE: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Craig, The main point for me is that you are forking the Wicket code to create the Apache project, and intent is everything. If you're planning on actively developing in the old community, I'd question the decision to come to Apache. It is a transition phase. As with sensory systems,

RE: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Leo Simons wrote: Its a little bit itchy to read about complying with rules or about who decides. When you get right down to it, legally, the person who decides is the VP. And I can count on the fingers of 0 hands how many times he laid down the law here in incubator land! To be clear, is

RE: Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Dion, What point is there in having something incubated if there are no users? We're talking about a balance, and most specifically about ensuring that only users who have made a specific and informed decision are using the code while it is still in the Incubator. The Apache brand has a value

RE: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Igor Vaynberg wrote: we have been told that -incubating is nothing more then a tag that the project is in the incubator and does not at all reflect the quality of the release nor its readiness for production use It is not a comment on the code quality at all, but it is a comment on whether

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-31 Thread Igor Vaynberg
from wicket's point of view we are not really concerned with the brand abuse that much. we are in no hurry to convert our packages to org.apache.wicket and in no hurry to call our releases apache wicket. what we are concerned about is having a way to provide wicket releases to our existing

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-30 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 7/27/06, Craig L Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can we take the code in the Apache incubator svn, build a release, and release it on sf.net (our previous host) without branding it as apache? Backporting the changes to sf.net doesn't appear to me to be an issue, since the Apache license

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-30 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Monday 31 July 2006 00:58, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: Legally, you may not call it Apache Wicket It is known as Wicket and will remain to be known as Wicket. (if that's the name you decide on), and as a matter of policy, I'd frown upon such 'backporting' behavior. Not sure what part you

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-30 Thread Gwyn Evans
On 30/07/06, Justin Erenkrantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/27/06, Craig L Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can we take the code in the Apache incubator svn, build a release, and release it on sf.net (our previous host) without branding it as apache? Backporting the changes to sf.net

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-30 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 7/30/06, Gwyn Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure about this, as an absolute prohibition would imply the 1.x stream would go into maintainance, which might be more restrictive than planned... The point is that the podling is either here or it's not. If new features are being added

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-30 Thread Craig L Russell
On Jul 30, 2006, at 12:05 PM, Gwyn Evans wrote: On 30/07/06, Justin Erenkrantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/27/06, Craig L Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can we take the code in the Apache incubator svn, build a release, and release it on sf.net (our previous host) without branding

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-30 Thread Gwyn Evans
On 30/07/06, Craig L Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 30, 2006, at 12:05 PM, Gwyn Evans wrote: On 30/07/06, Justin Erenkrantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/27/06, Craig L Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - All new development comes to the Incubator. We expect no more 'major'

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-30 Thread Gwyn Evans
On 30/07/06, Justin Erenkrantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/30/06, Gwyn Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure about this, as an absolute prohibition would imply the 1.x stream would go into maintainance, which might be more restrictive than planned... The point is that the podling is

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-30 Thread Leo Simons
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 03:52:39PM +0100, Upayavira wrote: Does anyone here have an idea what the shortest time is that a new community might be incubated (assuming no other issues)? I think, so far, none of the new top-level projects that we have incubated have done so in less than 6 months,

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-30 Thread Andrus Adamchik
I haven't followed the entire thread, but this sounds like what we did in Cayenne. And it did cause some misunderstanding at times regarding our intentions. Let's try to prevent similar misunderstanding in the case of Wicket. The quoted explanation seems quite reasonable to me, except that

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-30 Thread Leo Simons
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 02:54:35AM +0800, Niclas Hedhman wrote: Is [stuff] against the 'spirit of incubation', or some other guideline, rule or principle? Sorry about taking this way out of context, but its a relevant question. The back-and-forth in this thread is pretty much about a somewhat

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-30 Thread Igor Vaynberg
one issue that we are forgetting here and that needs to be mentioned is that wicket 2.0 requires jdk5 while 1.x is jdk1.4. so im not sure how viable of an option it is to freeze the featureset of 1.3 and only add bugfixes. a good chunk of our community cannot migrate to jdk5 and we have promised

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-30 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Monday 31 July 2006 07:37, Leo Simons wrote: Thanks mate (I love that word) ;o) (eg there won't be a book coming out in October about Apache Wicket 2.0, whereas a book on simply Wicket 2.0 in October might or might not make sense AFAIK, it will be Wicket In Action and cover both 1.2 and

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-30 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Monday 31 July 2006 07:27, Andrus Adamchik wrote: This way the old branch will still be supported.   But none of the users should expect that the new features will be   ported back to the old releases. And perhaps even incubate the 1.3, in case there are strong enough interest to keep

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-30 Thread Andrus Adamchik
Hi Igor, On Jul 30, 2006, at 8:34 PM, Igor Vaynberg wrote: one issue that we are forgetting here and that needs to be mentioned is that wicket 2.0 requires jdk5 while 1.x is jdk1.4. so im not sure how viable of an option it is to freeze the featureset of 1.3 and only add bugfixes. a good

Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-29 Thread Eelco Hillenius
Time scale for Wicket 2.0 is to start out releasing betas within two months. We plan to finish Wicket In Action the next few months - say october - and we really want the 2.0 API stabilized by then, as we're covering 2.0. The major changes we had in mind for 2.0 have been in for a few months now,

Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-29 Thread Gwyn Evans
That's the Wicket side of it - anyone have any idea about how long the incubation period might be expected to take? /Gwyn On 29/07/06, Eelco Hillenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Time scale for Wicket 2.0 is to start out releasing betas within two months. We plan to finish Wicket In Action the

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-29 Thread Martin van den Bemt
+1 :) And to second Leo, nice to see some more Dutch people :) Mvgr, Martin Upayavira wrote: The Wicket developers (http://wicket.sourceforge.net) have expressed a desire to incubate their project within the ASF. - To

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-29 Thread Upayavira
Gwyn Evans wrote: That's the Wicket side of it - anyone have any idea about how long the incubation period might be expected to take? Personally, my take on it is that the administrative side of things should be resolvable pretty quickly - collecting CLAs, reviewing licenses - also the process

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-29 Thread Johan Compagner
What is the current track record? I mean there are a lot of projects that have done the same thing. What is the best/worsed and the average? johan Does anyone here have an idea what the shortest time is that a new community might be incubated (assuming no other issues)?

Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-28 Thread Gwyn Evans
Well, my view would be that I'd like to keep the 1.2.x stream as wicket-1.2.x, whereas I'd be happy enough for the 1.3 stream to be wicket-incubating-1.3*. We'd expect the users to check the changes from 1.2 to 1.3, so having the incubating there (and explained in the release not) seems fine to

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-27 Thread Leo Simons
Nice proposal. Seems like a no-brainer. More Dutchies at apache is always a good thing ;) On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 04:54:15PM +0100, Upayavira wrote: === Versions === Wicket currently has three versions of their code base, 1.2 (the current release), 1.3 (planned) and 2.0 (unreleased). We

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-27 Thread Johan Compagner
* Chris Turner is from the UK and works as an independent consultant. He does not intend to move with us to Apache. What does that mean? Does he not think wicket should move to apache? Does he not want to sign a CLA? Is there consensus within wicket on this move or isn't there? Chris

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-27 Thread Upayavira
Leo Simons wrote: Nice proposal. Seems like a no-brainer. More Dutchies at apache is always a good thing ;) On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 04:54:15PM +0100, Upayavira wrote: === Versions === Wicket currently has three versions of their code base, 1.2 (the current release), 1.3 (planned) and 2.0

Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-27 Thread Martijn Dashorst
BTW Thanks everyone for the support! On the release note: We are very committed to support our community even when we're undergoing incubation. This would typically mean that we might need to release Wicket versions. As releases marked as incubated will probably raise an eyebrow or two, what

Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-27 Thread Leo Simons
Hey Martijn, guys, I'd really like to encourage you to take a look at how different established projects that joined apache through the incubator have handled this (spamassassin, stdcxx. roller, ofbiz, ...), as well as some of the discussion about this releases from incubating projects policy and

Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-27 Thread Igor Vaynberg
* release elsewhere, making sure to give things an appropriately different name and making sure both users and the incubator PMC understand what it all means and what is going on imho, i would much rather see wicket-1.2.2 rather then wicket-incubating-1.2.2 as a release. to me

Re: Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-27 Thread Johan Compagner
imho, i would much rather see wicket-1.2.2 rather then wicket-incubating-1.2.2 as a release. to me incubating says not ready for production use. it might mean something different in the apache context but we cant expect all our existing users or those who stumble upon wicket for the first time to

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-27 Thread Leo Simons
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:37:04AM -0700, Igor Vaynberg wrote: * release elsewhere, making sure to give things an appropriately different name and making sure both users and the incubator PMC understand what it all means and what is going on imho, i would much rather see wicket-1.2.2

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-27 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 23:54, Upayavira wrote: The Wicket developers (http://wicket.sourceforge.net) have expressed a desire to incubate their project within the ASF. +1, non-binding. The Wicket community is vibrant, diverse and already operating closely to the Apache Way, and (if I may

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-27 Thread Brian McCallister
+0 (I'd love to see it happen, but don't expect to be able to contribute). Nice folks, and anything with Upayavira, Sylvain, and Alex involved is destined to conquer the world anyway :-) -Brian On Jul 26, 2006, at 8:54 AM, Upayavira wrote: The Wicket developers

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-27 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Friday 28 July 2006 00:17, Leo Simons wrote:  * release elsewhere, making sure to give things an appropriately different    name and making sure both users and the incubator PMC understand what it    all means and what is going on Oscar 1.0 became Apache Felix (incubating), and Richard Hall

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-27 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi Martijn, My email is spotty for some reason; I haven't seen much feedback for you on the alias. Here's my take: On Jul 27, 2006, at 7:04 AM, Martijn Dashorst wrote: Can we take the code in the Apache incubator svn, build a release, and release it on sf.net (our previous host) without

[PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-26 Thread Upayavira
The Wicket developers (http://wicket.sourceforge.net) have expressed a desire to incubate their project within the ASF. I personally think that Wicket would fit very well at Apache with its flavour of innovation and its strong, meritocracy based community. The proposal follows (which can also be

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-26 Thread Don Brown
This has my hearty +1! This is great news as I've always admired the framework and the community behind it, and this will further facilitate the inter-framework discussions we (Struts) has been periodically having with Wicket. Let me know of any way I can help, Don On 7/26/06, Upayavira

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-26 Thread Martin Marinschek
Hi, I appreciate this addition to the web-framework competition at the ASF. If you have any interest in interfacing to JSF and Apache MyFaces, I'd be happy to help out. regards, Martin On 7/26/06, Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has my hearty +1! This is great news as I've always

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-26 Thread Eelco Hillenius
Thanks Martin. If there would be a way to find ways to interoperate without loosing both our strong points, that would be great. We've looked into it last year, and concluded it can't really be done based on the current JSF specs, largely because Wicket is a non-declarative framework. But otoh,

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-26 Thread Eelco Hillenius
Thanks Don! Thanks Upayavira, Alexa, Sylvain, Timothy and the others that have officially or unofficially championed Wicket. We hope that Wicket will make a valuable addition to Apache, and we are looking forward to get to know you guys better when we would be part of the Apache family. Cheers,

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate Wicket

2006-07-26 Thread Matthias Wessendorf
Eelco, that would be great; see you there. Independent from the JSF standpoint, I'd like to give you guys a +1 But, that said, is non-binding. -Matthias On 7/26/06, Eelco Hillenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Martin. If there would be a way to find ways to interoperate without loosing