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Posted to general@jakarta.apache.org by "O'brien, Tim" <to...@transolutions.net> on 2002/12/06 17:30:44 UTC
November Board Meeting Minutes
Rob, you refer to a november board meeting, I'm noticing that there are
no minutes for this meeting on
http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
I don't see a general apache discussion list, so for the benefit of the
community could you try to get those minutes published.
Thanks
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Tim O'Brien
Transolutions, Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Oxspring [mailto:roxspring@apache.org]
> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 8:09 AM
> To: general@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: [DRAFT2] Jakarta Newsletter - November 2002
>
>
> Jakarta Newsletter
> ==================
> Issue: 5
> Date: November 2002
> Url: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news/200211.html
>
> It has been a quiet month. Commons has killed on old
> component and welcomed a new one, while other components have
> kept up fixes, features and releases. Elsewhere there has
> been more discussion about the infrastructure and community
> at Apache, and an attempt to be helpful to those developers using IDEs
>
> As always, I want to thank those who contributed and hope
> that you enjoy the read. If you would like to comment further
> 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
> general@jakarta.apache.org.
>
> Rob Oxspring
>
>
> Contents
> --------
> General
> Ant
> Commons
> Jetspeed
> Lucene
>
>
>
> General
> =======
> "Ideas, suggestions, and comments on the overall Jakarta project"
> Editor: Rob Oxspring
>
> Andrew Oliver decided to do something about the Java
> developers who "cut their teeth" on IDEs and don't understand
> the intricacies of the command line tools that are used under
> the hood. The page [1] was welcomed by many and was rapidly
> expanded [2] and should hopefully be a resource useful to a
> wide range of developers.
>
> Duplicated or pointless import statements appear over time in
> most Java code. This is an issue that Tom Copeland wanted to
> tackle, and sparked a few iterations [3] of the "bad imports"
> report [4].
>
> [1] -
> http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=gener
> al@jakarta.apache.org&from=281536&to=281536&count=39&by=thread&paged=f
> alse
> [2] - http://jakarta.apache.org/site/idedevelopers.html
> [3] -
> http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=gener
al@jakarta.apache.org&by=thread&from=271386
> [4] - http://cvs.apache.org/~tcopeland/jakarta_bad_imports.htm
>
>
>
> Ant
> ===
> "Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool"
> Editor: Stefan Bodewig
>
> The biggest news in Ant land is that Ant has been promoted to
> a top-level project at the board meeting in November. Much of
> the discussion on ant-dev has been centered around the
> proposed board resolution, the formation of the initial PMC
> and similar issues during the last months. [1,2,3]
>
> While Ant is leaving the oversight of the Jakarta PMC with
> this move, Ant's committers are not necessarily leaving the
> Jakarta community, many of us will still be around and
> contribute where we see fit.
>
> After the release of Ant 1.5.1 at the beginning of October,
> we've kept on fixing smaller bugs in the 1.5 branch, so a
> 1.5.2 release is getting more likely. At the same time,
> development in the HEAD branch is picking up momentum again
> as we start adding new features and experiment with some stuff [4,5]
>
> The Ant GUI, Antidote, is being revived and discussions are
> getting underway on the Ant-dev mailing list. If anyone wants
> to get involved in this project, they are most welcome.
>
> [1] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103658833500006&r=1&w=2
> [2] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103702213600002&r=1&w=2
> [3] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103778589600002&r=1&w=2
> [4] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103834929300004&r=1&w=2
> [5] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103834425100001&r=1&w=2
>
>
>
> Commons
> =======
> "creating and maintaining reusable Java components"
> Editor: Henri Yandell
>
>
> Releases
> --------
> November saw the release of two new projects from Jakarta
> Commons, and the release of a bugfix for another project.
>
> Commons Validator 1.0 was mentioned in the previous
> newsletter. It was released on November 1st and is a
> validation framework from the Struts people.
>
> Commons CLI 1.0 was released on the 6th of November and is an
> API for parsing command line arguments. It is the direct
> descendant of 3 older argument parsing APIs and other APIs
> have affected it over mail list discussions. This gives it a
> very high pedigree and makes it a great choice for handling
> the command line.
>
> Commons Lang 1.0.1 is the first bugfix release for the Lang
> project. There are no new APIs or deprecated functionality,
> so all Commons Lang users are advised to upgrade, although
> the bugfixes are not earth-shattering.
>
> [1] -
> http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commo
> ns-validator/v1.0/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
> [2] -
> http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commo
> ns-cli/v1.0/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
> [3] -
> http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commo
> ns-lang/v1.0.1/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
>
>
> Gossip
> ------
> November was quiet for Commons, as it was for all of Apache.
> Indeed, the Commons mail list dropped by 35%.
>
> The Patterns project in the Sandbox has been mothballed as
> its code is to go into Commons Lang and Commons Util. Work
> has begun on moving the BeanUtils reflection code over to
> Commons Lang and various BeanUtils bugs were dealt with.
>
> A new database utility project has been proposed with generic
> JDBC(tm) utilities and lives under the name of 'DbUtils' in
> the sandbox and a project named 'attributes' has been
> proposed to handle runtime metadata attributes.
>
>
> [1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/attributes/
>
>
> Jelly
> -----
> Editor: James Strachan
>
> Here are the main changes that have happened recently on the
> Jelly project...
>
> XPath sorting now added to the XML library
> <j:useBean> can now construct beans with constructor
> parameters better reporting of JellyUnit failures, line
> numbers, expressions etc. XMLUnit library added for unit
> testing of XML inside JellyUnit
>
> So now JellyUnit can support the following XML unit testing constructs
>
>
> XPath based assertions via <test:assert xpath="..."/>
> schema validation via the jelly:validate library, testing XML
> against DTDs, XML Schema, RelaxNG etc comparing 2 documents
> for equality using the new XMLUnit library performing XSLT on
> some XML and then then performing any of the above parsing
> HTML via the Neko parser and treating it as XML in any of the above
>
> As well as Jexl based assertions, assertEquals and a new
> <assertThrown> tag to test for exceptions being thrown in
> Jelly scripts.
>
>
>
> Jetspeed
> ========
> "an Enterprise Information Portal, using Java and XML"
> Editor: David Sean Taylor
>
> Jetspeed 1.4b2 will be released on December 9.
>
>
> New Features
> ------------
> This release is full of new features thanks in great part to
> a very welcome new committer, Mark Orciuch. Here is a list of
> new features implemented by Mark:
>
>
> Parameter Presentation Styles - Data Entry Widgets including
> Date/Calendar, ListBox, CheckBoxGroup, TextArea, Custom JSP,
> Custom Velocity Portlet Preview Mode Portlet Usage Logging
> Password Expiration Online Profile Import/Export Print
> Friendly Mode Filtering in User Browser and Psml Browser
>
>
> Documentation
> -------------
> Jetspeed 1.4b2 introduces a new set of documentation to more
> fully cover the changes made to version 1.4. We have added
> the following documents:
>
>
> New 100+ page Jestpeed Tutorial
> JPortal Application Examples, accompanies the tutorial
> Jetspeed Axis Integration Guide
> New Registry Documentation
> New Layout Documentation
> New Client Media Documentation
>
>
> Dependencies
> ------------
> We updated as many Jars as we could to the latest versions
> without breaking the dependencies. Most importantly, we are
> now again in sync with the latest releases of:
>
> Torque
> Turbine
> Commons
> Hypersonic DB
>
>
> Improved JSP Support
> --------------------
> Jetspeed JSP Tag library updated to support
> internationalization and Jetspeed Links. JSP templating
> engine updated to operate like Velocities, supporting the
> same media/language/country fallback algorithm.
>
>
> Client and Media Type Registries
> --------------------------------
> Two new registries have been added to better support new
> Media Types and Client agents.
>
>
> Jetspeed Security
> -----------------
> Further enhancements to security:
>
> New LDAP Security Implementation from Ender Kilicoglu
> Added "owner rule" to only allow access to the owner of a
> portal resource Cleaned up security in default site Add
> Security to References
>
>
>
> Misc
> ----
>
> Allow Customization of Portlet Control per Portlet
> New File Cache utility
> CheckStyle added to build
>
>
>
> Lucene
> ======
> "a high-performance, full-featured text search engine"
> Editor: Otis Gospodnetic
>
> Lucene's scoring implementation was previously tightly
> integrated with the rest of the API. Doug Cutting added a
> public, extensible scoring API, which allows others to create
> their own scoring algorithm and plug it into Lucene:
>
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=lucene-dev@jakarta.a
pache.org&msgId=532504
A document describing Lucene's index file formats has been added to
Lucene's web site:
http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/fileformats.html
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Re: November Board Meeting Minutes
Posted by Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>.
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Tim O'brien <to...@transolutions.net> wrote:
> Rob, you refer to a november board meeting, I'm noticing that there
> are no minutes for this meeting on
> http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
There are no board meeting minutes yet AFAIK. They usually get
published after the following board meeting (guess they need to get
approved as the first action item).
Stefan
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