Re: Code conventions

2002-01-03 Thread Peter Donald
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 00:24, Sam Ruby wrote: Let's all take a moment to review: http://www.godwinslaw.com/ If some particular codebase under the Jakarta umbrella consistently chose to take actions which were inconsistent with the Apache mission, then I'm confident that the PMC would

Re: [Request For Comment] POI @ apache

2002-01-03 Thread Peter Donald
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 01:13, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: I'm writing, at the recommendation of Stefano Mazzocchi, in hopes of drawing discussion and perhaps later a vote on the creation of a new Jakarta subproject based on the POI project (http://poi.sourceforge.net

Re: [Request For Comment] POI @ apache

2002-01-03 Thread Peter Donald
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 12:20, Jon Scott Stevens wrote: I'm also a bit surprised/disappointed that no other PMC members have commented...leaving me to be the one who has to say something *again*. I guess discussion about code formatting is taking up everyone's time/energy. Some of us need more

Re: Code conventions

2002-01-03 Thread Peter Donald
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 00:34, Conor MacNeill wrote: Ted Husted wrote: Peter, I hope you and yours are well. The Australian Black Christmas is all over the morning news here. The smoke is pretty thick here right now even in the city suburbs. Having all your windows shut up when the outside

RE: cvs commit: jakarta-alexandria/proposal/gump/site/xdocsant.xml

2002-01-03 Thread Paulo Gaspar
And this tool might help on formatting the code according to (whatever) standards you want to follow: http://jrefactory.sourceforge.net/cspretty.html Have fun, Paulo Gaspar http://www.krankikom.de http://www.ruhronline.de -Original Message- From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: proposal for the jakarta startpage

2002-01-03 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 1/3/02 9:02 AM, Gerhard Froehlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, following idea for the jakarta startpage: how about adding a short description of each jakarta subproject on the startpage. something like that: TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT NAV Lucene: NAV

Re: proposal for the jakarta startpage

2002-01-03 Thread Ted Husted
What I've been meaning to do is set this up using the descriptions from Bugzilla, but never seem to get round to it. http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On 1/3/02 9:02 AM, Gerhard Froehlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, following idea for the

Re: proposal for the jakarta startpage

2002-01-03 Thread Ted Husted
If everyone thinks the Bugzilla page descriptions are a reasonable starting point, I'll do it. People are forever asking for this in the Webmaster box, and it will save me the trouble of replying. I also need to put one of Jon's gatekeeper pages in front of the Webmaster link, to induce people to

RE: proposal for the jakarta startpage

2002-01-03 Thread Gerhard Froehlich
-Original Message- From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 3:45 PM To: Jakarta General List Subject: Re: proposal for the jakarta startpage If everyone thinks the Bugzilla page descriptions are a reasonable starting point, I'll do it. People are

Re: [Request For Comment] POI @ apache

2002-01-03 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: Comments? Why is it appropriate for Jakarta? That's the missing piece for me. You said that the Cocoon community is excited about it, it could be important for data conversion in XML land... The missing piece might be that this library is general enough to be

Re: [Request For Comment] POI @ apache

2002-01-03 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 1/3/02 8:21 AM, Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: Comments? Why is it appropriate for Jakarta? That's the missing piece for me. You said that the Cocoon community is excited about it, it could be important for data conversion in XML land... The

Re: proposal for the jakarta startpage

2002-01-03 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
Here is yet another solution to this problem... http://www.apache.org/foundation/projects.html Once again, I already did 99% of the work. If you guys would like to help keep it up to date and maybe link it from the Jakarta homepage (or copy the data from there), then that would be great. I

Re: [Request For Comment] POI @ apache

2002-01-03 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/3/02 5:31 AM, Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exactly, ignoring M$ doesn't make it go away. I would say the opposite: there are tons of companies that base their document systems on M$ software and would like to move to a more open world but they simply can't afford loosing

Re: [Request For Comment] POI @ apache

2002-01-03 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 1/3/02 10:15 AM, Paulo Gaspar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As Andrew remarks, it goes quite well with Lucene. It opens the door to interesting synergies like: Slide + Lucene + HTML+PDF+Word+Excel = indexed repository of the most popular

RE: proposal for the jakarta startpage

2002-01-03 Thread Gerhard Froehlich
Hi, From: Jon Scott Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Here is yet another solution to this problem... http://www.apache.org/foundation/projects.html Once again, I already did 99% of the work. If you guys would like to help keep it up to date and maybe link it from the Jakarta homepage

RE: proposal for the jakarta startpage

2002-01-03 Thread Gerhard Froehlich
Hi, -Original Message- From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 7:49 PM To: Jakarta General List Subject: Re: proposal for the jakarta startpage If you already have the karma, Gerhard, go ahead. Otherwise, I can. Nope. No karma for the Jakarta Site,

Re: proposal for the jakarta startpage

2002-01-03 Thread Ted Husted
Gerhard Froehlich wrote: PS: Can somebody explain me, why the my mails are send twice to this list since today? I've nobody in CC! The same thing is happening to me. I've been thinking my mail filters had gone hay-write. We're apparently getting two copies of our own mails back. -- Ted

RE: [Request For Comment] POI @ apache

2002-01-03 Thread Paulo Gaspar
You are right. I agree 100% with what you say here. My remark is no argument. Have fun, Paulo Gaspar -Original Message- From: Jon Scott Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 7:35 PM on 1/3/02 10:15 AM, Paulo Gaspar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As

More abuse of coding styles...

2002-01-03 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
It is amazing to me...with all the discussion about coding styles and following them, we still have people committing code that doesn't follow what rules we do have... on 1/3/02 11:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Re: cvs commit: