RE: Other Jakarta Components

2006-03-14 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 19:18 -0500, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > In terms of finding homes, I wonder if we should have a root directory under > which we have inactive codebases. One problem would be that no PMC would be > responsible. Or we could create a sort of reverse incubator: a curatorship, > wh

RE: Other Jakarta Components

2006-03-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
In terms of finding homes, I wonder if we should have a root directory under which we have inactive codebases. One problem would be that no PMC would be responsible. Or we could create a sort of reverse incubator: a curatorship, where no active development takes place, but where oversight exists.

Re: Other Jakarta Components

2006-03-13 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 23:07 +0100, Thomas Dudziak wrote: > On 3/7/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > DbUtils and DBCP to db.apache.org sounds like a win to me; DBCP would > > point back to Jakarta for a dependency on [pool], but that helps to foster > > intra-project involvement. >

Re: Other Jakarta Components

2006-03-13 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 22:20 +0100, Thomas Dudziak wrote: > As a side note, perhaps this is an opportunity to evaluate if there > are better homes for some of the components ? E.g. > betwixt/digester/jxpath could benefit from going to XML commons, xml tends to be about nuts and bolts. not really

Re: Other Jakarta Components

2006-03-12 Thread Henri Yandell
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Henri Yandell wrote: On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Martin Cooper wrote: On 3/12/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Asking the question on commons-dev should initiate discussion with those who care about Digester - ideally asking it here would too but they might not

Re: Other Jakarta Components

2006-03-12 Thread Henri Yandell
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Martin Cooper wrote: On 3/12/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Asking the question on commons-dev should initiate discussion with those who care about Digester - ideally asking it here would too but they might not be paying attention I guess. Waiting for every

Re: Other Jakarta Components

2006-03-12 Thread Phil Steitz
Martin Cooper wrote: I think this whole thing is putting the cart before the horse. You're in the process of destroying Commons, not just dismantling it, and for no good reason that I can see. The people involved with Digester should be the ones to initiate a discussion about whether or not they

Re: Other Jakarta Components

2006-03-12 Thread Martin Cooper
On 3/12/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Stephen Colebourne wrote: > > > DbUtils and DBCP to db.apache.org sounds like a win to me; DBCP > would > > point back to Jakarta for a dependency on [pool], but that helps to > >>> foster intra-project involv

Re: Other Jakarta Components

2006-03-12 Thread Henri Yandell
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Stephen Colebourne wrote: DbUtils and DBCP to db.apache.org sounds like a win to me; DBCP would point back to Jakarta for a dependency on [pool], but that helps to foster intra-project involvement. Betwixt, Digester and JXPath strike me as a bit more to swallow and XML

Re: Other Jakarta Components

2006-03-12 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 12:38 -0800, Martin Cooper wrote: > On 3/7/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes, Struts uses Digester. It also uses BeanUtils, Chain, FileUpload, IO, > Logging and Validator. > > I think this whole thing is putting the cart before the horse. You're in the >

Re: Other Jakarta Components

2006-03-12 Thread Stephen Colebourne
DbUtils and DBCP to db.apache.org sounds like a win to me; DBCP would point back to Jakarta for a dependency on [pool], but that helps to foster intra-project involvement. Betwixt, Digester and JXPath strike me as a bit more to swallow and XML might not want to taking such bites. You want to go

Re: Other Jakarta Components

2006-03-12 Thread Martin Cooper
On 3/7/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Thomas Dudziak wrote: > > > On 3/7/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> DbUtils and DBCP to db.apache.org sounds like a win to me; DBCP would > >> point back to Jakarta for a dependency on [pool], but t

Re: Other Jakarta Components

2006-03-07 Thread Phil Steitz
lease procedures etc are Jakarta-scoped and discussed on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I understand this, but I wonder whether this move will have an immediate negative effect on the other Jakarta components in terms of developer attention both to the projects and to the users. As you say, probably not

Re: Other Jakarta Components

2006-03-07 Thread Henri Yandell
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Stephen Colebourne wrote: Thomas Dudziak wrote: Could you elaborate a bit on what the physical / visual-to-users differences to the current commons, well, Jakarta sub-project will be ? Will this be a new Jakarta sub-project (and the other commons components will remain in

Re: Other Jakarta Components

2006-03-07 Thread Nathan Bubna
On 3/7/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Definitely in favour of turning things like Velocity, POI, Turbine into > groupings if at all possible. Less likely with POI I suspect. I'd hope > that this would mean: > > SVN Auth - everyone in Jakarta has write permissions > SVN structure -

Re: Other Jakarta Components

2006-03-07 Thread Henri Yandell
Definitely in favour of turning things like Velocity, POI, Turbine into groupings if at all possible. Less likely with POI I suspect. I'd hope that this would mean: SVN Auth - everyone in Jakarta has write permissions SVN structure - jakarta/dvsl, jakarta/velocity/, jakarta/anakia (not sure

Re: Other Jakarta Components

2006-03-07 Thread Henri Yandell
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Thomas Dudziak wrote: On 3/7/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DbUtils and DBCP to db.apache.org sounds like a win to me; DBCP would point back to Jakarta for a dependency on [pool], but that helps to foster intra-project involvement. Betwixt, Digester and JXP

Re: Other Jakarta Components

2006-03-07 Thread Will Glass-Husain
>From the Velocity perspective, this sounds a little like our subproject. We've discussed this and aren't ready to move to TLP status. (we're not a framework!). But there are a couple of different efforts under the Velocity umbrella, specifically "Velocity Engine", "Velocity Tools", "DVSL". Mayb

Re: Other Jakarta Components

2006-03-07 Thread Thomas Dudziak
On 3/7/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DbUtils and DBCP to db.apache.org sounds like a win to me; DBCP would > point back to Jakarta for a dependency on [pool], but that helps to foster > intra-project involvement. > > Betwixt, Digester and JXPath strike me as a bit more to swallow

Re: Other Jakarta Components

2006-03-07 Thread Henri Yandell
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Thomas Dudziak wrote: On 3/7/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As a side note, perhaps this is an opportunity to evaluate if there are better homes for some of the components ? E.g. betwixt/digester/jxpath could benefit from going to XML commons, dbcp and dbuti

Re: Other Jakarta Components

2006-03-07 Thread Thomas Dudziak
On 3/7/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a side note, perhaps this is an opportunity to evaluate if there > > are better homes for some of the components ? E.g. > > betwixt/digester/jxpath could benefit from going to XML commons, dbcp > > and dbutils from going to DB etc. ? > > +

Re: Other Jakarta Components

2006-03-07 Thread Henri Yandell
such as release procedures etc are Jakarta-scoped and discussed on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I understand this, but I wonder whether this move will have an immediate negative effect on the other Jakarta components in terms of developer attention both to the projects and to the users. As you say, probably not

Re: Other Jakarta Components

2006-03-07 Thread Henri Yandell
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Stephen Colebourne wrote: Thomas Dudziak wrote: Could you elaborate a bit on what the physical / visual-to-users differences to the current commons, well, Jakarta sub-project will be ? Will this be a new Jakarta sub-project (and the other commons components will remain in

Re: Other Jakarta Components

2006-03-07 Thread Thomas Dudziak
will be a link somewhere to each > component, and probably a single page describing each group. Pages such > as release procedures etc are Jakarta-scoped and discussed on [EMAIL > PROTECTED] I understand this, but I wonder whether this move will have an immediate negative effect on the

Other Jakarta Components

2006-03-07 Thread Stephen Colebourne
Thomas Dudziak wrote: Could you elaborate a bit on what the physical / visual-to-users differences to the current commons, well, Jakarta sub-project will be ? Will this be a new Jakarta sub-project (and the other commons components will remain in the current commons one) ? I've been trying to d