Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-23 Thread Anil Vijendran
Jon Stevens wrote: on 1/22/01 4:33 PM, "Anil Vijendran" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its not that someone is opiniated that bothers me, its how it is conveyed. Are you still discussing this issue? I thought you said you were going to stop. I changed my mind. How about discussing what to do

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-23 Thread James Duncan Davidson
On 1/22/01 4:16 PM, "Geoff Soutter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, sounds reasonable. Maybe I ought to be asking how do we protect the people that get offended? :-) Those who need to be protected shouldn't walk outside their front door. -- James Duncan Davidson

RE: Forming an opinion

2001-01-23 Thread Paulo Gaspar
So, it seems that you have nothing against self defense. Right? Paulo -Original Message- From: James Duncan Davidson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 19:23 On 1/22/01 4:16 PM, "Geoff Soutter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, sounds reasonable. Maybe I

RE: Forming an opinion

2001-01-22 Thread Paulo Gaspar
-Original Message- From: James Duncan Davidson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 06:50 On 1/20/01 2:45 PM, "Paulo Gaspar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Maybe I was putting forth my opinion as well. Happens now and then. :) We all are and that was never the

RE: Forming an opinion

2001-01-22 Thread Paulo Gaspar
If you have a beef with Jon's behavior, then voicing it here, or to him personally, is the appropriate thing to do. That is just what we did. IMHO, no one was asking for "official action". We made remarks about that issue of other veterans reprehending me and not Jon or both. But even this

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-22 Thread Jon Stevens
on 1/22/01 2:55 AM, "Paulo Gaspar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, by fundamentally right I mean that the basic idea is perfect and that the implementation is somewhat shity. In the case of dial ins, I think that he should not reprehend specific people (as he did with me and others) for not

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-22 Thread Anil Vijendran
James Duncan Davidson wrote: If you have a beef with Jon's behavior, then voicing it here, or to him personally, is the appropriate thing to do. Or if you want the PMC's charter expanded, that's something that can be discussed. Not that I'm revealing any big secret here but yes I do have a

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-22 Thread Jon Stevens
Hey Anil, I know your car was broken, but you could have gotten a ride to the PMC meeting from one or more of the *many* people that you work with who were there (James, Pier, Amy, Jim, Costin, Justyi, Craig) and voiced your opinions directly instead of attempting to bring them up here after

RE: Forming an opinion

2001-01-22 Thread Paulo Gaspar
-Original Message- From: Jon Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 19:39 on 1/22/01 2:55 AM, "Paulo Gaspar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, by fundamentally right I mean that the basic idea is perfect and that the implementation is somewhat shity. In

RE: Forming an opinion

2001-01-22 Thread Paulo Gaspar
Hey Jon, You attacked Anil's position, but you did not proof him wrong. What are you attacking? The ideas or the man? Your ideas often make sense. Often better than opposite ideas. IMO, what Anil, me and others dislike is that, instead of attacking the opposite ideas, you attack the people

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-22 Thread Jon Stevens
on 1/22/01 1:55 PM, "Anil Vijendran" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That said, I don't understand why you bring this up _now_. I didn't bring it up earlier cause you weren't carrying on this discussion about trying to censor me...nor was it something that "I can/should bring up at the PMC." Do you

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-22 Thread Anil Vijendran
Jon Stevens wrote: on 1/22/01 1:55 PM, "Anil Vijendran" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That said, I don't understand why you bring this up _now_. I didn't bring it up earlier cause you weren't carrying on this discussion about trying to censor me...nor was it something that "I can/should bring

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-22 Thread Scott Stirling
As Kurt Schrader smartly said: "The last thing we need is the idea police here to make sure that no one is offended by someone's postings not being up to their standards of niceness. It seems to me that if you can't handle having your ideas being called shit then you should keep them to

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-22 Thread Geoff Soutter
"Scott Stirling" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As Kurt Schrader smartly said: "The last thing we need is the idea police here to make sure that no one is offended by someone's postings not being up to their standards of niceness. It seems to me that if you can't handle having your ideas

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-22 Thread Peter Donald
At 11:08 23/1/01 +1100, Geoff Soutter wrote: Any ideas how we can effectively deal with opinionated people without muzzling them? don't bother responding to them unless they do things the right way. email them OFF list stating this in a very diplomatic way. Watch them explode and then hopefully

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-22 Thread Geoff Soutter
"Peter Donald" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:08 23/1/01 +1100, Geoff Soutter wrote: Any ideas how we can effectively deal with opinionated people without muzzling them? don't bother responding to them unless they do things the right way. email them OFF list stating this in a very

RE: Forming an opinion

2001-01-22 Thread James Courtney
: Monday, January 22, 2001 4:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Forming an opinion "Scott Stirling" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As Kurt Schrader smartly said: "The last thing we need is the idea police here to make sure that no one is offended by someone's postin

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-22 Thread Anil Vijendran
Geoff Soutter wrote: JDD said essentially the same thing, it's weird, on one hand I hate to see people getting upset but on the other hand I can't see how we can provide a kind of "virtual padded room" where we can prevent people getting offended without seeming very autocratic. I share

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-22 Thread Jon Stevens
on 1/22/01 4:33 PM, "Anil Vijendran" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its not that someone is opiniated that bothers me, its how it is conveyed. Are you still discussing this issue? I thought you said you were going to stop. How about discussing what to do when a developer goes and does whatever the

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-22 Thread Geoff Soutter
"Anil Vijendran" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geoff Soutter wrote: JDD said essentially the same thing, it's weird, on one hand I hate to see people getting upset but on the other hand I can't see how we can provide a kind of "virtual padded room" where we can prevent people getting

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-22 Thread Filip Hanik
MAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 4:34 PM Subject: Re: Forming an opinion on 1/22/01 4:33 PM, "Anil Vijendran" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its not that someone is opiniated that bothers me, its how it is conveyed. Are you still discussing this issue? I thought you said you

RE: Forming an opinion

2001-01-22 Thread Paulo Gaspar
-Original Message- From: Jon Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 01:35 ... How about discussing what to do when a developer goes and does whatever the fuck he wants to do regardless of what everyone else voted and agreed on? -jon Jon, get

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-21 Thread James Duncan Davidson
On 1/20/01 2:45 PM, "Paulo Gaspar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, you choused to write about this mess on the list again. So, I will answer on the list. I hope this does not (re)start anything. Yep. I chose to. Of course because of that it'll all be my fault. :) Of course, I'm on a

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-21 Thread James Duncan Davidson
On 1/20/01 7:56 PM, "James Cook" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think most of us feel that Jon deserves a wrap on the knuckles. :) Not in my charter as I interpret it. Most people here seem to want a fairly low key, laid back PMC. One that deals with focused issues. Everything else happens on the

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-21 Thread James Duncan Davidson
On 1/20/01 11:56 PM, "Anil Vijendran" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agreed, James. I don't really see anyone question Jon's contributions to ASF or to open source, in general. Jon is prolific and that's great. But many posts from Jon "cross the line" and are harrassment. A small bit of toning

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-21 Thread Kurt Schrader
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, James Duncan Davidson wrote: After all, it seemed clear to me that the PMC's role was too narrowly defined to include "niceness overseers". As a college student who's just getting involved with Apache after working on some other projects over the years, I think it's

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-20 Thread James Duncan Davidson
On 1/18/01 2:49 AM, "Paulo Gaspar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To be clear, I am fed up that Jon: - tells everybody what they should do; - judges and condemns people without knowing how their lives are (as with, but not only, the several remarks about people not dialing-in in the PMC

RE: Forming an opinion

2001-01-20 Thread Paulo Gaspar
I would rather let waters stay still. I am behaving and so is Jon. However, you choused to write about this mess on the list again. So, I will answer on the list. I hope this does not (re)start anything. Everything I am writing here was already told before in previous postings. Maybe you had no

RE: Forming an opinion

2001-01-20 Thread James Cook
-Original Message- From: James Duncan Davidson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] So as a PMC member, he shouldn't voice an opinion? That's akin to what I've been told that as PMC chair, I have to put my opinions aside. Perhaps as the PMC chair you could ask Jon to tone it down. If his

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-20 Thread Jon Stevens
on 1/20/01 7:56 PM, "James Cook" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many others seem to be able to voice their opinions (even when they are strong disagreements) without appearing condescending or unusually harsh. I tried to be nice. More than once. It didn't work. -jon

RE: Forming an opinion

2001-01-20 Thread Timm, Sean
. -Original Message- From: James Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 8:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Forming an opinion -Original Message- From: James Duncan Davidson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] So as a PMC member, he shouldn't voice

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-20 Thread Anil Vijendran
James Duncan Davidson wrote: Jon was around since *way* back in Jserv days. Does that make him part of the clique? Probably. Face it, cliques happen. Open Source is built on trust more than anything else and Jon has built up more Open Source projects than I can keep track of. I won't ask

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-18 Thread Alex Fernández
Thanks, Costin. From the little I have seen so far, you haven't added much code; at least the line count is very similar to 3.2.1. You should feel proud of what you have accomplished so far; IMHO, all code-refactoring and re-design efforts are worthy, regardless of where it is released. If it's

RE: Forming an opinion

2001-01-18 Thread Paulo Gaspar
-Original Message- From: Remy Maucherat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 04:29 -Original Message- From: Jon Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 20:17 on 1/17/01 10:28 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-18 Thread Thom May
* Paulo Gaspar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on Thu Jan 18, 2001 at 11:49:41 +0100: -Original Message- From: Remy Maucherat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 04:29 -Original Message- From: Jon Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: Forming an opinion

2001-01-18 Thread Paulo Gaspar
-Original Message- From: Jon Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 04:42 on 1/17/01 7:43 PM, "Paulo Gaspar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. You are flaming Costin again (is that harassment?); I don't see a flame there. I'm simply speaking truth.

RE: Forming an opinion

2001-01-18 Thread Paulo Gaspar
-Original Message- From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 08:18 Paulo Gaspar wrote: However, one of them is that there is no such thing as a "version" of any Apache project until there is a vote to go that way, and elect a

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-18 Thread Anil Vijendran
Remy, Rest of your points re: Costin and your position on "3.3" well taken. But... Remy Maucherat wrote: However, I cannot say the same thing about you. Frankly, could you just *stop* that ? I don't think you fully realize it, but you're not helping either Costin or this project in any way

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-18 Thread Ted Husted
On 1/17/2001 at 11:17 PM Craig R. McClanahan wrote: Many of those rules and conventions are documented (such as the rules on voting), but some are not. One of the things I took away from the PMC meeting yesterday is the need to better articulate those rules. As a new committer to another

RE: Forming an opinion

2001-01-18 Thread Paulo Gaspar
ED]] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 11:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Forming an opinion * Paulo Gaspar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on Thu Jan 18, 2001 at 11:49:41 +0100: -Original Message- From: Remy Maucherat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 18,

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-18 Thread Gudmundur Hafsteinsson
How about splitting this list into two lists: tomcat-dev for those interested in seeing the development of Tomcat advance and tomcat-flames for those arguing all the time about nothing relevant ;-) Regards, Gummi Haf -- Gudmundur Hafsteinsson - [EMAIL

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-18 Thread Raminder Singh
: Re: Forming an opinion How about splitting this list into two lists: tomcat-dev for those interested in seeing the development of Tomcat advance and tomcat-flames for those arguing all the time about nothing relevant ;-) Regards, Gummi Haf -- Gudmundur

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-18 Thread Filip Hanik
nsson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 3:35 AM Subject: Re: Forming an opinion How about splitting this list into two lists: tomcat-dev for those interested in seeing the development of Tomcat advance and tomcat-flames for those arguing all the time abo

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-18 Thread Bernd Eilers
Hi there ! How about splitting this list into two lists: tomcat-dev for those interested in seeing the development of Tomcat advance and tomcat-flames for those arguing all the time about nothing relevant ;-) Well as I do not have commiter status this doesn't count but: +1 Reason:

RE: Forming an opinion

2001-01-18 Thread Paulo Gaspar
Me and Jon are only posting constructive stuff now. Don't kick us more! =;o) Have fun, Paulo Gaspar -Original Message- From: Bernd Eilers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 14:28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Forming an opinion Hi

Clarification of decision rules [Was: Re: Forming an opinion]

2001-01-18 Thread Hans Bergsten
"Ted Husted" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Although I probably don't understand all the nuances of the "Apache Culture", as a Jakarta Committer, here is a draft "patch" that I would suggest to decisions.html (mostly parity-checks): [...] One of the action items from the meeting was to do

Forming an opinion

2001-01-17 Thread Alex Fernández
Hi all! I've seen a lot of discussion here on Tomcat 3.3 vs 4.0. Without some knowledge about the inside workings of each version, it's very hard to follow it -- I mean, find out the actual issues behind the "politics" -- or the politics behind the actual issues. The article linked by

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-17 Thread cmanolache
Hi Alex, I'm doing nightly builds and source packages at: http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/tomcat/nightly-3.3 Regarding the PMC meeting - it seems all depends on the support and votes that a 3.3 release proposal can get. The main concern ( or at least my understanding of it ) was that 3.3

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-17 Thread Sam Ruby
Costin Manolache wrote: 1. Bug fixes. Tomcat 3.3 will be released _only_ if it'll have all the known bugs fixed, and at least 3 commiters are willing to help fix further bugs. It does not need to be all. A significant dent would be sufficient. P.S. the other conclusion of the PMC ( as I

RE: Forming an opinion

2001-01-17 Thread Paulo Gaspar
I agree Costin. Avoid the flame bait. I am willing to help on code review and - if/when I know the beast better - documentation. My schedule gets a bit lighter next week. I will, of course, ask loads of things. But I hope I will mostly need pointers to things. Have fun, Paulo Gaspar

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-17 Thread Hans Bergsten
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Regarding the PMC meeting - it seems all depends on the support and votes that a 3.3 release proposal can get. That's exactly right. The main concern ( or at least my understanding of it ) was that 3.3 doesn't have enough support, and I'm ... well, you can

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-17 Thread Amy Roh
I totally agree with Hans. I attended the meeting yesterday and would hate to see this kind of misunderstanding. Costin, I really don't think that anyone is after you personally. No one is saying that you're a bad person. I personally think that the passon you have about what you do is very

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-17 Thread cmanolache
without guarantees that there are committers willing to supporting it can tarnish Tomcat's reputation. It's *not* personal, it's about making sure that the development is done in a way supported by the committers in the project and in line with our guidelines. Sorry for taking it as a

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-17 Thread Jon Stevens
on 1/17/01 10:28 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Costin ( believe me, it was one of my worst days, I hope you understand a bit my feelings. ) Why was it one of your worst days? I don't see how it could have been bad, nor do I see how that could influence your actions here by

RE: Forming an opinion

2001-01-17 Thread Paulo Gaspar
-Original Message- From: Jon Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 20:17 on 1/17/01 10:28 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why was it one of your worst days? I don't see how it could have been bad, nor do I see how that could

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-17 Thread Jon Stevens
on 1/17/01 3:33 PM, "Paulo Gaspar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, of course, you are biting the bait, the hook, the line... Enough was already said about that. Sam, Hans, Amy and I managed to talk about it with no flames and Costin already apologized. He apologized for taking things

RE: Forming an opinion

2001-01-17 Thread Paulo Gaspar
-Original Message- From: Jon Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 01:01 Enough was already said about that. Sam, Hans, Amy and I managed to talk about it with no flames and Costin already apologized. He apologized for taking things personally and

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-17 Thread Jon Stevens
on 1/17/01 4:42 PM, "Paulo Gaspar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure! Kick him harder! Lets see, he started out his *first* email after the meeting with flame bait, his next email was a pseudo apology, his third email is asking for censorship. Sure. I'm going to kick back. I'm tired of putting

RE: Forming an opinion

2001-01-17 Thread Paulo Gaspar
First, you write too much about a name when the question has always been having or not a 3.3 in the 3.x branch. Most of us (for whom having a 3.3 is interesting) are still not concerned about having or not a revolution and a Tomcat 5. It is too soon to be concerned about when our main priority

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-17 Thread Jon Stevens
on 1/17/01 5:50 PM, "Paulo Gaspar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, you write too much about a name when the question has always been having or not a 3.3 in the 3.x branch. Nope. No proposal for that has been made yet. Most of us (for whom having a 3.3 is interesting) are still not concerned

RE: Forming an opinion

2001-01-17 Thread Paulo Gaspar
-Original Message- From: Jon Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 02:58 on 1/17/01 5:50 PM, "Paulo Gaspar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope. No proposal for that has been made yet. I am talking about names and you are throwing bureaucracy at me. How

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-17 Thread Jon Stevens
on 1/17/01 6:44 PM, "Paulo Gaspar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Jon Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 02:58 on 1/17/01 5:50 PM, "Paulo Gaspar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope. No proposal for that has been made yet. I am

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-17 Thread Remy Maucherat
-Original Message- From: Jon Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 20:17 on 1/17/01 10:28 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why was it one of your worst days? I don't see how it could have been bad, nor do I see how that could

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-17 Thread Jon Stevens
on 1/17/01 7:43 PM, "Paulo Gaspar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. You are flaming Costin again (is that harassment?); I don't see a flame there. I'm simply speaking truth. Costin's actions and statements have clearly shown that he believes in censorship. He even tried to bring up motions in the

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-17 Thread Filip Hanik
/ref=s c_b_2/107-5367122-9735704 Filip ~ Namaste - I bow to the divine in you. ~ Filip Hanik Technical Architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Jon Stevens" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 7:41 PM Subject: Re: Forming

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-17 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
Paulo Gaspar wrote: First, you write too much about a name when the question has always been having or not a 3.3 in the 3.x branch. Most of us (for whom having a 3.3 is interesting) are still not concerned about having or not a revolution and a Tomcat 5. It is too soon to be concerned