leapfrog-mars-devel — Discussion about Mars extension and core development

[Mars-Devel] FASD project: Online survey launched

[<ben...@id...>]

Dear Open Source developer

I am doing a research project on "Fun and Software Development" in which I kindly invite you to participate.
You will find the online survey under http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/. The questionnaire consists of 53 questions and you will need about 15 minutes to complete it.

With the FASD project (Fun and Software Development) we want to define the motivational significance of fun when software developers decide to engage in Open Source projects. What is special about our research project is that a similar survey is planned with software developers in commercial firms. This procedure allows the immediate comparison between the involved individuals and the conditions of production of these two development models. Thus we hope to obtain substantial new insights to the phenomenon of Open Source Development.


With many thanks for your participation,
Benno Luthiger


PS:
The results of the survey will be published under http://www.isu.unizh.ch/fuehrung/blprojects/FASD/.
We have set up the mailing list fa...@we... for this study. Please see http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/mailinglist_en.html for registration to this mailing list.

_______________________________________________________________________

Benno Luthiger
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
8092 Zurich

Mail: benno.luthiger(at)id.ethz.ch
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[Mars-Devel] Announcing Mars 2.2.5

[Brian T. <br...@al...>]

Mars 2.2.5 is now available. This is a primarily a bugfix release. 
Opening configuration files from the command line (broken in 2.2.4) 
works again. The XMPP notification plugin now handles client 
connections properly (thanks Mike Dixson for helping with this). Minor 
fixes were made to the open/save configuration file dialogs, and to 
configuration file opening on Mac OS X. Also, Mars' user interface has 
undergone a minor overhaul; Mars now has a menu bar, and the 
host/service tree is completely keyboard editable. All existing Mars 
2.2.4 users are urged to upgrade to Mars 2.2.5.

- Brian

[Mars-Devel] Mars 2.2.3 released

[Brian T. <br...@al...>]

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Mars 2.2.3 is now available from sourceforge.net, thanks to the work 
and suggestions of community members Scott Ahten, Richard Gill, Noel 
Bergman, Robert Fuller, Stefan Svensson, and Ivica Loncar (and with 
apologies to Jon Steele, whose contributed probe extension will ship 
with 2.2.4). Mars 2.2.3 fixes a bug where Mars would send LF where CRLF 
is required, and adds features including regular expression search in 
HTTP responses, HTTPS probing via an included probe extension, and 
expand/collapse buttons to show and hide all monitored services 
quickly. See the change log for details.

- - Brian Trammell, Mars Maintainer
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[Mars-Devel] Re: Mars 2.2.2 as an java applet

[Brian T. <br...@lf...>]

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Evgueni,=0D
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Mars is presently not designed to run as an applet. While it would not =0D=

be too difficult to modify Mars to be an applet, it has not yet been =0D
done. I'm including a quote from an email to another person who asked =0D=

the same question below:=0D
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> Q: If not, how hard do you think it would be to wrap it up and make it=0D=

> work as an applet? (Assuming you have a new jvm on the browser with =
the=0D
> java plug-in)=0D
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I shouldn't think it would be _too_ hard to do so - though you'd have =0D=

to find a home for the code in org.altara.mars.Main - Mars is not a =0D
typical small one-window Swing application in that its main() method =0D
doesn't simply call new MySubclassOfJFrame() and let the frame's =0D
initializer code handle application init - this was explicitly done to =0D=

allow the Mars core to run without the UI (for example, as the backend =0D=

to a JSP application). However, you should be able to create an applet =0D=

whose init() method instantiates a new Main as in Main.main() and =0D
things should run OK (assuming you're trusted). Keep in mind Mars will =0D=

want to load plugins from its distribution directory, and will only =0D
access the local filesystem for config files - two nice features for =0D
the applet (which I've also been thinking about for Mars proper) would =0D=

be loading a mars-cfg.xml and a set of plugins from the network, as =0D
opposed to from the local disk. If you'd like to take the lead on an =0D
applet wrapper, I'd be happy to prioritize those features for a next =0D
release of Mars.=0D
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Regards,=0D
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Brian=0D
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On Friday, April 11, 2003, at 06:43  AM, Malkov, Evgueni wrote:=0D
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>  Hi,=0D
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>  Thank You very much for your job.=0D
>  Everything works perfect.=0D
>  I have 3 questions only:=0D
>  1. How do I run the Mars as an applet?=0D
>  2. What parameters I can pass to the applet?=0D
>  3. How do I debug the Mars as an applet?=0D
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>  Could You please provide me with one example html file?=0D
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>  Thank You in advance=0D
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> Dr.-Ing. Evgueni A. Malkov=0D
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Brian H. Trammell             Managing Partner & Director of Engineering=0D=

br...@lf...                    Leapfrog Research and Development, LLC=0D=

412 656 8522                 815 Copeland Way PMB 22 Pittsburgh PA 15232=0D=

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