[bv-dev] Welcome, infrastructure and presentation

Emmanuel Bernard emmanuel at hibernate.org
Mon Sep 5 04:34:19 EDT 2011


On 3 sept. 2011, at 11:17, Gunnar Morling wrote:

> Emmanuel,
> 
> the general set-up of the infrastructure looks really great. In
> particular a big +1 for making the website editable via GitHub.
> 
> For the time being, I'd find it great to have some more background on
> the EG members, so that we all know with whom we're working (I've been
> in touch with you and Gerhard, but not with Richard for instance, and
> who is on board from Oracle's side?).

Yes that's a good idea. I'll start an email series on introduction. There are a few members of Oracle to this expert group or this list.

> 
> Maybe everyone just shoots a short note to the list? Or perhaps an "EG
> people" section on beanvalidation.org makes sense? If you all think
> that's useful I could create such a section on the site.

We can. But I'm a bit reluctant to antagonize this list over the "raw" expert group. I don't want to limit the work to EG members.

> 
> --Gunnar
> 
> 
> 2011/9/1 Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org>:
>> Hello everyone,
>> Welcome to this group and thanks for joining. I have been waiting for the
>> summer vacations to end before soliciting you. But now is the time to start.
>> I have been working mainly on the infrastructure of the specification with
>> to goal to streamline our work as much as possible. The goal for this infra
>> is to:
>> - work the spec in the open
>> - make contributions as easy as possible
>> - have me do less work :)
>> Infrastructure
>> The spec has:
>> - a website http://beanvalidation.org
>> - source repositories https://github.com/beanvalidation (spec, API, TCK and
>> the website itself)
>> - a mailing list (this one)
>> - a forum for more casual interactions (not sure it is useful)
>> - a issue tracker http://beanvalidation.org/issues
>> All publicly accessible.
>> The portal for everything Bean Validation is
>> http://beanvalidation.org. People can find the latest news as well as
>> information on how to contribute.
>> I encourage you to read the contribute section
>> http://beanvalidation.org/contribute. This page (and associated pages)
>> explains how to contribute to the specification document, the API, the TCK,
>> the RI and even the beanvalidation.org website itself. Let me know if you
>> think something needs to be refined and clarified.
>> Process
>> I have listed the main goals of this specification
>> in http://beanvalidation.org/roadmap/ but the true source is the issue
>> tracker http://beanvalidation.org/issues.
>> Our first objective is going to make sure that what we want to do is in JIRA
>> and sort the work in decreasing priority.
>> Once this settled, I will call for one or two subjects at a given time on
>> which we can brainstorm on this mailing list and or on the issue tracker
>> before converging and writing a proposal (see
>> http://beanvalidation.org/contribute/specification/). I don't have to be the
>> one writing a proposal necessarily.
>> All of this is a base proposal for our work, we can change it. So feel free
>> to speak up and contribute.
>> Let the fun start!
>> Emmanuel Bernard
>> JBoss by Red Hat
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