RE: [VOTE] Axis C++ code and Committers (was Re: update on axis-c ++)

[Glen Daniels <gd...@macromedia.com>]

+1, +1

--Glen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Davanum Srinivas [mailto:dims@yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 10:09 AM
> To: axis-dev@ws.apache.org
> Subject: [VOTE] Axis C++ code and Committers (was Re: update 
> on axis-c++)
> 
> 
> Dear Committers,
> 
> Please VOTE +1/+0/-0/-1 as usual for the following 2 items: 
> (See ballot below, i already entered James and Sanjiva's +1). 
> Please don't be "silent" (just say +0). FYI, Picked the list 
> of names from our web site.
> 
> #1: Setup xml-axis/c++ as destination for Axis-C++ (Later we 
> can move xml-axis to ws-axis)
> 
> #2: Accept the following folks as Committers:
>     Chaminda Divitotawela
>     Nuwan Gurusinghe
>     Susantha Kumara
>     Damitha Kumarage
>     Nadika Ranasinghe
>     Sanjaya Sinharage
>     Roshan Weerasuriya
> 
> Active Committers:       #1      #2
> # Russell Butek         [  ]    [  ]
> # David Chappell        [  ]    [  ]
> # Glen Daniels          [  ]    [  ]
> # Doug Davis            [  ]    [  ]
> # Chris Haddad          [  ]    [  ]
> # Tom Jordahl           [  ]    [  ]
> # Steve Loughran        [  ]    [  ]
> # Yuhichi Nakamura      [  ]    [  ]
> # Sam Ruby              [  ]    [  ]
> # Rick Rineholt         [  ]    [  ]
> # Thomas Sandholm       [  ]    [  ]
> # Rich Scheuerle        [  ]    [  ]
> # Igor Sedukhin         [  ]    [  ]
> # Matt Seibert          [  ]    [  ]
> # Richard Sitze         [  ]    [  ]
> # Davanum Srinivas      [+1]    [+1]
> 
> Committers Emeriti:      #1      #2
> # Vahe Amirbekyan       [  ]    [  ]
> # Wouter Cloetens       [  ]    [  ]
> # Matt Duftler          [  ]    [  ]
> # Steve Graham          [  ]    [  ]
> # Rob Jellinghaus       [  ]    [  ]
> # Jacek Kopecky         [  ]    [  ]
> # Ravi Kumar            [  ]    [  ]
> # Berin Loritsch        [  ]    [  ]
> # George Matkovits      [  ]    [  ]
> # Kevin Mitchell        [  ]    [  ]
> # Bill Nagy             [  ]    [  ]
> # Christopher Nelson    [  ]    [  ] 
> # Ryo Neyama            [  ]    [  ]
> # Glyn Normington       [  ]    [  ]
> # James Snell           [+1]    [+1]
> # Sanjiva Weerawarana   [+1]    [+1]
> 
> --- Sanjiva Weerawarana <sa...@watson.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> > 
> > I would like to give an update on the axis-c++ effort that 
> we're doing 
> > here in Sri Lanka. As some of you know, I have organized an 
> > open-source software foundation in Sri Lanka to get local 
> developers 
> > to participate in open-source projects. Axis-C++ is our 
> first effort. 
> > This is being worked on by the following
> > folks:
> >     Chaminda Divitotawela
> >     Nuwan Gurusinghe
> >     Susantha Kumara
> >     Damitha Kumarage
> >     Nadika Ranasinghe
> >     Sanjaya Sinharage
> >     Roshan Weerasuriya
> > Susantha, Damitha, Sanjaya and Roshan are working full-time on this 
> > effort. Nuwan and Chaminda are spending 2 days a week and 
> Nadika one 
> > day a week. Susantha is the technical lead of the team. I work with 
> > them to help understand stuff and to help guide the 
> architecture etc..
> > 
> > I had previously organized a group of folks from here to work on a 
> > client-side C++ impl - that is currently committed at
> >     ws-axis/contrib/Axis-C++
> > The current work has focused on the server-side. We intend 
> to go back 
> > to the client-side code and bring it in alignment with the 
> server-side 
> > code, but the work so far been on the server side.
> > 
> > We had a phone call with Dims a while ago when he explained the 
> > overall Axis architecture and what he wanted us to do 
> before the work 
> > could be moved to the mainstream. The current status is that we've 
> > developed an architecture for the server side and 
> prototyped most of 
> > it. A draft document explaining the architecture is attached. The 
> > model supports all the usual Axis concepts (WSDD, handlers, 
> etc.) but 
> > is a bit different in the internal guts. I assume that is not a 
> > problem .. the main motivation to change was to try to move 
> to a more 
> > pull-oriented approach and hopefully a higher performant 
> approach. All 
> > of this stuff can be discussed and adjusted once we get this going 
> > mainstream, of course.
> > 
> > I have also attached a jar file containing the main source. The 
> > attached isn't enough to compile (it doesn't include all the
> > dependencies) but enough to give you an idea of the current status.
> > 
> > What I'd like to do is the following:
> >     - commit the code to the main repository at ws-axis/c++/...
> >     - make the authors committers
> >     - run in regular mode: design, implement, etc. etc.
> > 
> > Dims suggested that we take a vote on how to move forward. 
> Here's my 
> > +1 to the above approach.
> > 
> > What do you think?
> > 
> > Sanjiva.
> > 
> 
> > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/msword name=AxisServerDesign.doc
> 
> 
> > ATTACHMENT part 3 application/octet-stream name=axiscpp.jar
> 
> 
> 
> =====
> Davanum Srinivas - http://webservices.apache.org/~dims/
> 
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