Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-22 Thread James Strachan
On 22 Dec 2005, at 06:36, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 19:47 -0800, Greg Stein wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 11:16:13AM -0800, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: Dumb question, is it a requirement that the incubating project move to the org.apache package? I would say yes. Big

RE: Incubating java projects

2005-12-22 Thread Noel J. Bergman
James Strachan wrote: I don't see why we need to force a major package name change on our users. Branding and consistency. A wrapper package can be used to deprecate the old names. --- Noel - To unsubscribe,

RE: Incubating java projects

2005-12-22 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Greg Stein wrote: Alan D. Cabrera wrote: Dumb question, is it a requirement that the incubating project move to the org.apache package? I would say yes. As would (and did) most others. We should add this to the Incubation checklist. I don't want to see another mistake made as was

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-22 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On 12/21/2005 3:13 AM, Leo Simons wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:59:11AM +, James Strachan wrote: On 20 Dec 2005, at 19:33, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: It's not actually a dumb question, but rather one that I always took for granted... I realized when asked by Alan that we never

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-22 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 12/22/05, James Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Thanks everyone for your comments. We should maybe capture some of the points raised in this thread into the incubation guide? +1 submit a patch ;) (been waiting years to say that to james) AUIU the consensus seems to be that the

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread James Strachan
On 20 Dec 2005, at 19:33, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: It's not actually a dumb question, but rather one that I always took for granted... I realized when asked by Alan that we never had the need to codify it... Yeah - I've never seen it actually written down anywhere noticed that the

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread Leo Simons
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:59:11AM +, James Strachan wrote: On 20 Dec 2005, at 19:33, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: It's not actually a dumb question, but rather one that I always took for granted... I realized when asked by Alan that we never had the need to codify it... Yeah - I've

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On 12/21/05, James Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Dec 2005, at 19:33, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: I wondered why this was mandatory; the purpose of the Java package name scheme is purely to avoid clashes; provided the .org domain name is owned ( we'd be happy to donate to Apache) I

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread James Strachan
On 21 Dec 2005, at 11:13, Leo Simons wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:59:11AM +, James Strachan wrote: On 20 Dec 2005, at 19:33, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: It's not actually a dumb question, but rather one that I always took for granted... I realized when asked by Alan that we never had

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Dec 21, 2005, at 6:40 AM, James Strachan wrote: I think the package name change is currently not mandatory, but perhaps it should be. I'm not so sure. There's already various stuff at Apache that breaks this rule (SAX, DOM, JCP APIs such as stuff in geronimo- spec, the SCA

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread Davanum Srinivas
James, To be blunt, what is being done here? here's what i see as a casual observer to the infra list. - A bunch of projects are getting into Apache controlled by the same set of people (ServiceMix/ActiveMQ/XBean/WADI) - Folks are getting completely unrelated projects into an umbrella project

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread James Strachan
On 21 Dec 2005, at 13:02, Davanum Srinivas wrote: James, To be blunt, what is being done here? here's what i see as a casual observer to the infra list. - A bunch of projects are getting into Apache controlled by the same set of people (ServiceMix/ActiveMQ/XBean/WADI) Not really; see the

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread Dan Diephouse
Davanum Srinivas wrote: James, Incubation process is not set in stone. Just last week, we voted on standardizing the mailing list names. So it is a mix of good judgement, experience, consensus and rules. If you insist we can put start a VOTE on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think you are part of that as

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Dan, Then at least the proposal should be honest enough, not to name names. If we don't know what ServiceMix's needs are, we cannot make sure the design of Synapse will fit right with ServiceMix. No one is asking for a code drop. Asking for involvement, i think that's what a community means.

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread James Strachan
On 21 Dec 2005, at 14:42, Davanum Srinivas wrote: James, Incubation process is not set in stone. Just last week, we voted on standardizing the mailing list names. So it is a mix of good judgement, experience, consensus and rules. If you insist we can put start a VOTE on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread James Strachan
On 21 Dec 2005, at 16:45, Davanum Srinivas wrote: Dan, Then at least the proposal should be honest enough, not to name names. If we don't know what ServiceMix's needs are, we cannot make sure the design of Synapse will fit right with ServiceMix. No one is asking for a code drop. Asking for

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 18:02 +, James Strachan wrote: Dims could you please give us a bit of time to get ServiceMix's house in order first before we can start collaborating with other projects in earnest. Don't worry there will be collaboration. +1! Sanjiva.

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-21 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 11:16:13AM -0800, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: Dumb question, is it a requirement that the incubating project move to the org.apache package? I would say yes. Consider five years down the road. The pre-Incubator life of a project is a distant memory at that point. You're

Incubating java projects

2005-12-20 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
Dumb question, is it a requirement that the incubating project move to the org.apache package? Regards, Alan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-20 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Yes :) -- dims On 12/20/05, Alan D. Cabrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dumb question, is it a requirement that the incubating project move to the org.apache package? Regards, Alan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-20 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
It's not actually a dumb question, but rather one that I always took for granted... I realized when asked by Alan that we never had the need to codify it... On Dec 20, 2005, at 2:16 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: Dumb question, is it a requirement that the incubating project move to the

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-20 Thread Brett Porter
Of course, the answer may not be that simple if you have an existing user base that programs against your APIs. I think it would be wise to do this as soon as possible and judge the impact. We found we had to write a couple of compatibility interfaces under the old package scheme to retain binary

Re: Incubating java projects

2005-12-20 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
Right - I would assume you provide some kind of adapter package so existing code works, and deprecate it... On Dec 20, 2005, at 5:12 PM, Brett Porter wrote: Of course, the answer may not be that simple if you have an existing user base that programs against your APIs. I think it would be