Looks good to me. I think the proposal should mention a potential list of committers/contributors who are interested in maintaining and keeping JDBM alive, and I think these people should step up to be included in the proposal. And please add me to this list :) I also have extensive open-source experience, starting down Memory Lane with FidoNet and writing my own BBS software based off a fork from Tony Hsieh's EBBS, continuing at Intalio with the genesis of OpenEJB, OpenJMS, Slide, and a few others. I'm currently PMC member for Apache Ode, PPMC member for Apache Buildr and committer for Apache ServiceMix. I'm also involved in the open-source Tempo project (http://tempo.intalio.org) which isn't ready for a transition to a large open-source community/foundation yet ;)
alex On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Cees de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Currently: http://jdbm.sourceforge.net/) > > JDBM is an 8-year old open source library currently under a custom > (original-BSD-style) license created by me in 2000 as the result of > some chat with folks from Intalio and extended by a number of persons > since then, most notably Alex Boisvert. It mainly aims to give similar > functionality as GDBM but it adds transactions and btrees/htrees. As > its goals were (and are) simplicity and robustness, after an initial > flurry of development the package has been mostly stable and is in > use/has been used by a number of high profile projects > (http://jdbm.sourceforge.net/JDBM-Powered.html). > > There have been some concerns about the continuity of the package, > although the original contributors are still active. ApacheDS already > includes a (temprary) fork in the code base, and the main question the > mailing list receives is along the line "does it still work?" (answer: > yes, it does - that fact that the stable release is 3 years old means > that we haven't received any serious bug reports since then, I figure > ;-)). > > While we were discussing the future of JDBM on SourceForge (people > want to move to Codehaus because of the better tools), Emmanuel > Lecharny (ApacheDS) suggested that we'd consider Apache DB as a new > home, and I think it is an extremely good idea for obvious reasons > (continuity, exposure, peace of mind for Apache DS and other users). > > JDBM still fills a good niche, IMO, and would be a worthwhile addition > to the Apache DB project. At the moment, I'm busy modernizing JDBM: > - Move from Ant to Maven (mostly done); > - Move from Junit3 to Junit4; > - Move to JDK1.5+, most notably by adding generics. > - Move from jdbm.* to a package name that is in accordance with the > rules of ibiblio et al. for release. > - Re-license under ASL/MIT/BSD ("something in that particular corner > of the open source licensing jungle"). > The first three points are underway, the package rename depends > partially on its new home, and re-licensing requires some discussion > and a vote but the contributors so far are quite relaxed on licensing > (how refreshing!). > > Personally, as OC, I am very much committed to keeping JDBM alive. I > have a bit over 2 decades of experience with working in Free > Software/Open Source Software environments (starting with an fast > ANSI.SYS replacement, distributed over Fidonet, in the '80s :)), among > others I contributed to early Linux kernels, helped with the port of > Java to Linux as a member of the Blackdown team, ran the > Linuxdoc/SGMLtools projects and I have been active in various > Smalltak-related communities, most notably the Squeak community > (squeak.org). So I hope I qualify the "open source experience" > requirement. As to the other main contributors, I leave it to them to > chime in. > > I sincerely hope the Apache DB project will consider adoption of the code > base. > > Regards, > > Cees > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > _______________________________________________ > Jdbm-general mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jdbm-general >
