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Posted to dev@cocoon.apache.org by Steven Noels <st...@outerthought.org> on 2003/08/11 14:42:02 UTC
preparation of board report
Hi all,
it's time to prepare our report for the ASF board meeting of August
20th. I'm looking to collect noteworthy news about our community
project, and so far these are the topics I'm planning to put in the
report. Comment & add as you see fit:
* ramping up towards a 2.1 release
* the noteworthy, tough but fruitful discussion about Flow & balcanization
* first (baby)steps towards form handling framework unification
* new committers
* Lenya's ongoing incubation + intention to participate with the GT
* (slowly) ongoing effort to migrate the Wiki -> ASF equipment
* charter discussions (I hope to be able to attach a revised &
voted-upon charter for approval by the board, so stay tuned for more)
Things I decided to drop ;-)
* Carsten's repeated abuse of his own fingers
* The Swimming Pool Sessions @ Sylvain's
Anything else?
</Steven>
--
Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/
Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center
Read my weblog at http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/
stevenn at outerthought.org stevenn at apache.org
Re: preparation of board report
Posted by Steven Noels <st...@outerthought.org>.
On 11/08/2003 14:42 Steven Noels wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> it's time to prepare our report for the ASF board meeting of August
> 20th. I'm looking to collect noteworthy news about our community
> project, and so far these are the topics I'm planning to put in the
> report. Comment & add as you see fit:
fyi: here's the previous one:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=105344074224116&w=2
</Steven>
--
Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/
Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center
Read my weblog at http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/
stevenn at outerthought.org stevenn at apache.org
Re: preparation of board report
Posted by Steven Noels <st...@outerthought.org>.
Steven Noels wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> it's time to prepare our report for the ASF board meeting of August
> 20th. I'm looking to collect noteworthy news about our community
> project, and so far these are the topics I'm planning to put in the
> report. Comment & add as you see fit:
>
> * ramping up towards a 2.1 release
> * the noteworthy, tough but fruitful discussion about Flow & balcanization
> * first (baby)steps towards form handling framework unification
> * new committers
> * Lenya's ongoing incubation + intention to participate with the GT
> * (slowly) ongoing effort to migrate the Wiki -> ASF equipment
> * charter discussions (I hope to be able to attach a revised &
> voted-upon charter for approval by the board, so stay tuned for more)
OK, here's the report I'll be sending out tomorrow noon 12:00 CET:
- 0 -
Here's the report on Cocoon's state of affairs. We do hope this gives
the board a feeling on how we are doing.
Let's first start with a brief run-through of the previous report
(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=105344074224116&w=2)
and see how we proceed:
1), 2), 3): no further action required or taken
4) recursive Cocoon charter: still needs to be worked upon
5) use of Cocoon brand by cocoondev.org and cocooncenter.com: ditto
6) ditto - work is slowly progressing with the infrastructure team to
migrate the Cocoon wiki to ASF infrastructure, together with Steven
Noels and Gianugo Rabellino from the Cocoon team - we believe it is fair
to indicate that an ASF-operated shared and managed Java hosting service
might accelerate this, and do hope the eventual migration of our Wiki
might serve as an example to move further along that road.
7) solved: the XMLForms effort is being actively deprecated in favor of
other form handling frameworks (JXForms and Woody).
8) transfer of HSSF (Excel) serializer from Cocoon -> POI: no further
action has been taken yet.
9) Avalon Excalibur dependencies: Cocoon committers have now commit
karma to an Avalon CVS module that hosts code in heavy use by the Cocoon
project, making sure bugs can be fixed and patches applied in due time.
10) the Milestone release scheme has been applied successfully, and has
resulted in a 2.1 release mid August.
11) Lenya incubation is still ongoing and monitored by the Cocoon PMC.
12), 13), 14): satisfactory ongoing.
New matter:
1) The Cocoon project has released a 2.1 version mid of August, and work
is under its way to release a forthcoming 2.1.1 quickfix release.
2) Discussions are starting on the upcoming 2.2 development.
3) Most notable discussion was about the existence (and/or creation) of
several overlapping ideas and frameworks for flow and form handling
inside Cocoon, and even though the discussions were lenghty, at the
verge of being flame-infested, the main discussion participants came to
an agreement, showing off the maturity of the Cocoon community even when
starting off from a discours of extreme technical dissonance.
4) As a result of all this, work is under its way to refactor and
augment specific form handling code (Woody) into a truly community-owned
artefact, and API changes have been allowed to make sure specific
implementations (JS Flow with Continuations) leave room for
alternatives, should the community see fit.
5) Several new committers since the previous report: Ugo Cei, Marc
Portier, Guido Casper, Reinhard Pötz, Upayavira and Joerg Heinicke.
There's a de facto policy that all committers can subscribe to the PMC
list, but formalization of this, and whether this means they can cast a
binding PMC vote still needs to be discussed. There's a certain tendency
that there should be no distinction between active committership and PMC
membership. Lenya hasn't signed up any new committers since it went into
incubation, yet.
6) The Cocoon project guidelines and revised charter are under
construction, being based on a de-formalized branch of the Jakarta ones.
Overall, the Cocoon project is a healthy and friendly community working
along the Apache spirit, and we expect no sudden problems to emerge.
- 0 -
Cheers,
</Steven>
--
Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/
Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center
Read my weblog at http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/
stevenn at outerthought.org stevenn at apache.org
Re: preparation of board report
Posted by Steven Noels <st...@outerthought.org>.
Steven Noels wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> it's time to prepare our report for the ASF board meeting of August
> 20th. I'm looking to collect noteworthy news about our community
> project, and so far these are the topics I'm planning to put in the
> report. Comment & add as you see fit:
>
> * ramping up towards a 2.1 release
> * the noteworthy, tough but fruitful discussion about Flow & balcanization
> * first (baby)steps towards form handling framework unification
> * new committers
> * Lenya's ongoing incubation + intention to participate with the GT
> * (slowly) ongoing effort to migrate the Wiki -> ASF equipment
> * charter discussions (I hope to be able to attach a revised &
> voted-upon charter for approval by the board, so stay tuned for more)
OK, here's the report I'll be sending out tomorrow noon 12:00 CET:
- 0 -
Here's the report on Cocoon's state of affairs. We do hope this gives
the board a feeling on how we are doing.
Let's first start with a brief run-through of the previous report
(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=105344074224116&w=2)
and see how we proceed:
1), 2), 3): no further action required or taken
4) recursive Cocoon charter: still needs to be worked upon
5) use of Cocoon brand by cocoondev.org and cocooncenter.com: ditto
6) ditto - work is slowly progressing with the infrastructure team to
migrate the Cocoon wiki to ASF infrastructure, together with Steven
Noels and Gianugo Rabellino from the Cocoon team - we believe it is fair
to indicate that an ASF-operated shared and managed Java hosting service
might accelerate this, and do hope the eventual migration of our Wiki
might serve as an example to move further along that road.
7) solved: the XMLForms effort is being actively deprecated in favor of
other form handling frameworks (JXForms and Woody).
8) transfer of HSSF (Excel) serializer from Cocoon -> POI: no further
action has been taken yet.
9) Avalon Excalibur dependencies: Cocoon committers have now commit
karma to an Avalon CVS module that hosts code in heavy use by the Cocoon
project, making sure bugs can be fixed and patches applied in due time.
10) the Milestone release scheme has been applied successfully, and has
resulted in a 2.1 release mid August.
11) Lenya incubation is still ongoing and monitored by the Cocoon PMC.
12), 13), 14): satisfactory ongoing.
New matter:
1) The Cocoon project has released a 2.1 version mid of August, and work
is under its way to release a forthcoming 2.1.1 quickfix release.
2) Discussions are starting on the upcoming 2.2 development.
3) Most notable discussion was about the existence (and/or creation) of
several overlapping ideas and frameworks for flow and form handling
inside Cocoon, and even though the discussions were lenghty, at the
verge of being flame-infested, the main discussion participants came to
an agreement, showing off the maturity of the Cocoon community even when
starting off from a discours of extreme technical dissonance.
4) As a result of all this, work is under its way to refactor and
augment specific form handling code (Woody) into a truly community-owned
artefact, and API changes have been allowed to make sure specific
implementations (JS Flow with Continuations) leave room for
alternatives, should the community see fit.
5) Several new committers since the previous report: Ugo Cei, Marc
Portier, Guido Casper, Reinhard Pötz, Upayavira and Joerg Heinicke.
There's a de facto policy that all committers can subscribe to the PMC
list, but formalization of this, and whether this means they can cast a
binding PMC vote still needs to be discussed. There's a certain tendency
that there should be no distinction between active committership and PMC
membership. Lenya hasn't signed up any new committers since it went into
incubation, yet.
6) The Cocoon project guidelines and revised charter are under
construction, being based on a de-formalized branch of the Jakarta ones.
Overall, the Cocoon project is a healthy and friendly community working
along the Apache spirit, and we expect no sudden problems to emerge.
- 0 -
Cheers,
</Steven>
--
Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/
Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center
Read my weblog at http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/
stevenn at outerthought.org stevenn at apache.org
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Re: preparation of board report
Posted by Steven Noels <st...@outerthought.org>.
On 11/08/2003 14:42 Steven Noels wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> it's time to prepare our report for the ASF board meeting of August
> 20th. I'm looking to collect noteworthy news about our community
> project, and so far these are the topics I'm planning to put in the
> report. Comment & add as you see fit:
fyi: here's the previous one:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=105344074224116&w=2
</Steven>
--
Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/
Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center
Read my weblog at http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/
stevenn at outerthought.org stevenn at apache.org
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