February Newsletter - Call for content

2003-02-28 Thread Rob Oxspring
Hi all, Could those that have items for the February newsletter try to get them to me in the next few days? If you haven't sent an item in before then let the respective dev list know that your doing it and send me the text (or a patch for the xdoc version once it's started). If you contributed l

Re: [DRAFT1] Jakarta Newsletter - January 2003

2003-02-02 Thread Rob Oxspring
Okay people time to add your stuff. As per usual I've CCd the previous contributers in the hope that they'll either contribute again or talk someone on their projects into taking over. If you want to write up the months gossip for a project then send it to me and I'll include it, its probably bes

[DRAFT1] Jakarta Newsletter - January 2003

2003-02-02 Thread Rob Oxspring
Jakarta Newsletter == Issue: 7 Date: January 2003 Url: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news/200301.html TODO Contents General Lucene General === " Ideas, suggestions, and comments on the overall Jakarta project " Editor: Rob Oxspring Robert Simmons k

[DRAFT] Jakarta Newsletter - December 2002

2003-01-16 Thread Rob Oxspring
on any of the highlighted discussions then please do so on the appropriate list, if you want to comment on the newsletter itself then please point your comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rob Oxspring Contents General Lucene POI General === "Ideas, suggestions, and comments o

RE: [DRAFT] Jakarta Newsletter - December 2002

2003-01-16 Thread Rob Oxspring
the final copy - but assuming all is well I'll get it out the door within 48. As ever if you want to contribute but don't like the timescale then let me know within it and we'll see what can be done. Rob > -Original Message- > From: Rob Oxspring [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

[DRAFT] Jakarta Newsletter - December 2002

2003-01-16 Thread Rob Oxspring
on any of the highlighted discussions then please do so on the appropriate list, if you want to comment on the newsletter itself then please point your comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rob Oxspring Contents General Lucene POI General === "Ideas, suggestions, and comments o

Re: Newsletter - Request for content

2003-01-08 Thread Rob Oxspring
ache.org? (with some appropriate rename) Maybe its fine as it is? Thanks, Rob - Original Message ----- From: "Rob Oxspring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Jakarta General List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'James Strachan'" <[EMAIL

Newsletter - Request for content

2002-12-29 Thread Rob Oxspring
The end of the month is approaching again and I'm sure that, like me, a lot of you are focused on celebrating the new year. Once all that is over I'd like to post the December issue of the newsletter so if people can send any reports to me that would be great. Everyone is welcome to send summarie

[DRAFT2] Jakarta Newsletter - November 2002

2002-12-06 Thread Rob Oxspring
do so on the appropriate list, if you want to comment on the newsletter itself then please point your comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rob Oxspring Contents General Ant Commons Jetspeed Lucene General === "Ideas, suggestions, and comments on the overall Jakarta project" E

[DRAFT1] Jakarta Newsletter - November 2002

2002-12-03 Thread Rob Oxspring
do so on the appropriate list, if you want to comment on the newsletter itself then please point your comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rob Oxspring Contents General Commons General === "Ideas, suggestions, and comments on the overall Jakarta project" Editor: Rob Oxspri

Newsletter - Request for content

2002-11-29 Thread Rob Oxspring
Hello again, We're very nearly done with another month so it's time to pester people about the newsletter again. As usual, I've cc'd those that submitted content last month in the hope that they will either submit something again, or manage to persuade someone else to take over writing for the

Re: [DRAFT2] Jakarta Newsletter - October 2002

2002-11-06 Thread Rob Oxspring
d port and several new folks expressed an >interest in volunteering > * Andy discovered the default encoding on Redhat 8 is now UTF-8 and not 8859-1, >hence finally we have a machine to test POI with a different default encoding and can fix that bug. > > -Andy > > > > Rob

Re: [DRAFT2] Jakarta Newsletter - October 2002

2002-11-06 Thread Rob Oxspring
I'll give this another 3 hours or so, then assuming there are no problems / additions I'll post it on announcements@jakarta Rob - Original Message ----- From: "Rob Oxspring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 12

[DRAFT2] Jakarta Newsletter - October 2002

2002-11-06 Thread Rob Oxspring
PROTECTED] Rob Oxspring Contents General Avalon Commons Korean Jakarta Lucene Struts General === "Ideas, suggestions, and comments on the overall Jakarta project" Editor: Rob Oxspring Jean-Frederic Clere was looking for a way to identify the version of the current J

[DRAFT1] Jakarta Newsletter - October 2002

2002-11-04 Thread Rob Oxspring
] Rob Oxspring Contents General Commons Korean Jakarta Lucene Struts General === "Ideas, suggestions, and comments on the overall Jakarta project" Editor: Rob Oxspring Jean-Frederic Clere was looking for a way to identify the version of the current JVM. After quest

Newsletter - Request for content

2002-10-29 Thread Rob Oxspring
Hi all, After a lapse last month its approaching time to put together another newsletter. As usual, I've cc'd those that submitted content last month in the hope that they will either submit something again, or try to persuade someone else to take over writing for the Sep-Oct issue. If anybody e

Re: Newsletter

2002-10-21 Thread Rob Oxspring
The consensus (mainly private mails) seems to be to stick to the monthly scheme and accept September as a blip. So business as usual - I'll call for contributions covering Sep + Oct sometime next week and post drafts from the 4th. Cheers, Rob - Original Message - From: "Brian Ewins" <

Newsletter

2002-10-16 Thread Rob Oxspring
Hi all, You may or may not have noticed that there wasn't a newsletter at the beginning of the month. Unfortunately I was extremely busy with a release at the turn of the month and then have been ill since. All is well now though. Now that I'm back on my feet again I'm wondering what to do a

[PATCH] RE: Jakarta Newsletter - June 2002

2002-07-04 Thread Rob Oxspring
Any chance of applying the patch to bring the online copy in line with the one that went out? Cheers, Rob > -Original Message- > From: Rob Oxspring [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 4 July 2002 20:02 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Jakarta Newsletter - June 2002

[FINAL] Jakarta Newsletter - June 2002

2002-07-03 Thread Rob Oxspring
Okay, comments have pretty much dried up now so I'm getting ready to send out the final version on announcements@... any chance of someone dropping the latest copy of 200206.xml into cvs and letting me know when things are all set? Its not a diff as I can't seem to access cvs at the moment... hop

[DRAFT2] Jakarta Newsletter - June 2002

2002-07-02 Thread Rob Oxspring
Please find attached the xdoc/html/txt versions of the the second draft (zipped). The changes: oNew sections for Jetspeed, Lucene, and Tomcat oMentions actual release of JXPath not just talk of oCeki's name is now in its full glory, as is Mike McAngus's oSwitched Mahler Thomas to

[DRAFT2] Jakarta Newsletter - June 2002

2002-07-02 Thread Rob Oxspring
Please find attached the xdoc/html/txt versions of the the second draft (zipped). The changes: oNew sections for Jetspeed, Lucene, and Tomcat oMentions actual release of JXPath not just talk of oCeki's name is now in its full glory, as is Mike McAngus's oSwitched Mahler Thomas to

Fw: Jakarta Newsletter

2002-07-01 Thread Rob Oxspring
Quick opinion poll: Otis Gospodnetic asked whether an alternate name might be preferred. It hadn't occured to me to be more creative on the naming front at all, but the suggestions follow: > Jakarta Gist > Jakarta Report(er) > Jakarta Informer > Jakarta Informant > Jakarta Monthly > Jakarta Bri

Re: [DRAFT1] Jakarta Newsletter - June 2002

2002-07-01 Thread Rob Oxspring
long the way. Rob - Original Message - From: "Rob Oxspring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 1:53 PM Subject: [DRAFT1] Jakarta Newsletter - June 2002 > Jakarta Newsletter > == > > Issue: 1 > Date: June

[DRAFT1] Jakarta Newsletter - June 2002

2002-07-01 Thread Rob Oxspring
lf then please point your comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rob Oxsping Contents General Ant Avalon Commons Log4j Object Bridge ORO POI Struts Taglibs General === Editor: Rob Oxspring Discussions on general have been fairly light weight this month. The main points have been in regar

Jakarta Newsletter

2002-06-27 Thread Rob Oxspring
Firstly, apologies for the cross post but I wanted your attention (and conribtutions). Any discussion following that should involve me should probably go on general@ or cc me directly - the whole point of the newsletter is that I have niether the time nor the inclination to join all the -dev list

[PROPOSAL] Newsletter Submissions

2002-06-25 Thread Rob Oxspring
Id like to propose the following time scale for the June newsletter and similar setup for subsequent ones. 1)Content submissions in by end of sunday (midnight) 2)I'll pull together whats there and post a draft copy to general@ on the Monday (1st July) 3)Then await edits and a lazy c

RE: Jakarta Newsletter - May 2002

2002-06-05 Thread Rob Oxspring
is is more detailed than future ones probably should be, > and that would likely be the case when other projects get > incorporated anyway. > > Great job, and you can count on me assisting you with this in > any way possible in the future. > > Erik > > >

Re: Jakarta Newsletter - May 2002

2002-06-05 Thread Rob Oxspring
- Original Message - From: "Pier Fumagalli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jakarta General List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 4:19 PM Subject: Re: Jakarta Newsletter - May 2002 > "Rob Oxspring" <[E

Re: Jakarta Newsletter - May 2002

2002-06-05 Thread Rob Oxspring
es providing a varied style and more complete content. Rob Oxspring General Ant Commons This month saw the first ever veto of a new committer in the Tomcat subproject. [1] The resulting threads from this discussed how much a person should have to do before being given committer rights [2] and w

Jakarta Newsletter - May 2002

2002-06-05 Thread Rob Oxspring
entirely edited my myself rather than a set of developers and as a direct result is limited to the dev lists I monitor properly. With luck others will help out future issues providing a varied style and more complete content. Rob Oxspring General === This month saw the first ever veto of a new

Re: Advertisement using Apache lists

2002-05-13 Thread Rob Oxspring
Have never played with any mailing list software myself but would it be possible to bounce cross posts? That way people would soon learn that cross posts are not appreciated without having to interrupt the subscribers! Just thinking out loud... Rob - Original Message - From: "Peter Dona

RE: cross-project communications

2002-05-01 Thread Rob Oxspring
Sorry all, my fault! Since starting that thread I have been swamped with the day job, and free time has been somewhat filled trying to keep an eye on ant / lucene / commons / general lists... Stepping back for a moment I notice this is an argument for getting on with the newsletter rather than p

Re: Printable pages

2002-03-25 Thread Rob Oxspring
- Original Message - From: "Leo Simons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jakarta General List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 8:59 PM Subject: RE: Printable pages > Berin: > > > > In that case, the entire Jakarta site needs to be redesigned. > > > > It makes use of embedded tab

RE: Jakarta Newsletter

2001-12-27 Thread Rob Oxspring
> -Original Message- > From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 12:25 AM > To: Jakarta General List > Subject: Re: Jakarta Newsletter > > > On 12/27/01 7:21 PM, "Rob Oxspring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

RE: Jakarta Newsletter

2001-12-27 Thread Rob Oxspring
ople adopted it quickly and the bitching about Styleweb (the > previous tool) stopped. > > thanks! > > -jon > > [1] http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/anakia.html > [2] http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/dvsl/ > > -- > Standard rules apply: Ask any questions, and

Jakarta Newsletter

2001-12-27 Thread Rob Oxspring
Apologies if this has been brought up before, but I was wondering if the idea of a jakarta newsletter been discussed? As an interested user of NetBeans I find their weekly newsletter (http://www.netbeans.org/newsletter/2001-09-03.html) extremely interesting and helpful as I don't have the time to