Symphonious

Apparently, the ASF took delivery of a few new machines today. I just can’t get the image of Sam Ruby sitting around ASF head office and suddenly there’s a knock on the door and he finds a pile of orphaned servers wrapped in a blanket.

Then again, I always was weird…

The vote to start the motion of HttpClient out of jakarta-commons to become a fully fledged Jakarta sub-project has been declared passed. I’ve just done up an initial draft of the proposal that will need to be put to the Jakarta PMC to approve the move (they noted that it was coming and that it was most likely to pass at the meeting they just recently had). This is the first bit of Apache “politics” I’ve been involved in so I’ll be interested in the feedback.

I’m just not sure if it’s considered politics when everyone agrees as they seem to do so often on the HttpClient list. It’s good to have a team that’s working so well together.

At long last, HttpClient 2.0 has been released. It’s been a lot of hard work from a few almost completely distinct teams of developers (with only small contributions from myself if you’re wondering). I was originally hoping that HttpClient 2.0 would make it out in time to be used in EditLive! for Java 2.0 we actually released EditLive! for Java 3.0 a couple of weeks ago and it’s too late even to make it into the upcoming EditLive! for XML release. On the plus side, the CVS snapshot version we’ve been using for the past year or so has been running perfectly without any customers running into problems.

There is to be a toast raised to HttpClient 2.0 at the Nelson in Zurich and at P J O’Briens in Brisbane Australia. Company at the Australian toast is particularly required since I believe I’m the only HttpClient developer from Brisbane.

I really have to mention for the benefit of my non-apache friends, Planet Apache. It’s an aggregation of blogs by Apache committers and contains a lot of really interesting stuff both from the world of Apache and from outside it.

It’s open to all apache committers but is still ramping up with new people adding their blogs so we’ll see how well the noise to signal ratio survives, but at the moment, the signal is really very good.