Re: Glasgow naming: proposal

2006-08-07 Thread Craig L Russell
On Aug 7, 2006, at 12:49 PM, Kim van der Riet wrote: I have been somewhat surprised at the amount of debate surrounding the name of the proposed Glasgow project. Same here, and I've been on this alias for over a year. Most of the discussion earlier has been over infringement issues, not a

Re: Glasgow naming: proposal

2006-08-07 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 8/7/06, Kim van der Riet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have been somewhat surprised at the amount of debate surrounding the name of the proposed Glasgow project. It seems that this project has become entangled in an issue overdue for discussion within Apache. Perhaps the emotive issue of using

Re: Glasgow naming: proposal

2006-08-07 Thread Matthias Wessendorf
That's right! adffaces "solved" the naming during the incubation (still ongoing;)) But... you should note that the code donation came from Oracle, so no "naming issues" (on adf faces) on this side. I am not really sure what happens when you call your incubation project "vista" or "netweaver" fo

Re: Glasgow naming: proposal

2006-08-07 Thread Mike Kienenberger
Kim, I am not an Incubator PMC member, but past experience over the last few months shows that the name is not a barrier to entry for the Incubator.For example, ADFFaces is an incubating project with a name trademarked by Oracle, and part of the incubating process has to been to change that n

Glasgow naming: proposal

2006-08-07 Thread Kim van der Riet
I have been somewhat surprised at the amount of debate surrounding the name of the proposed Glasgow project. It seems that this project has become entangled in an issue overdue for discussion within Apache. Perhaps the emotive issue of using (another) proper noun has sparked a much-needed debate. I