[ +1] Accept the OpenJPA proposal -- dims
On 3/19/06, Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What follows is the official proposal for OpenJPA. The unofficial > version can be found here > > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenJPAProposal > > Please vote on acceptance of this proposal. The vote will run 1 week > until Sunday, March 26, 2006 or until all Incubator PMC members have voted. > > [ ] +1 Accept the OpenJPA proposal > [ ] 0 Don't care > [ ] -1 Reject for the following reason : > > > ======================================================================= > > > OpenJPA Project Proposal > ========================= > OpenJPA will be an ASL-licensed implementation of the Java Persistence > API (JPA) which is defined as part of JSR-220. > > Rationale > ========= > We think that Open JPA is something that will benefit from wide > collaboration, being able to build a community of developers and > committers that outlive the founders, and that will be embraced by other > Apache efforts, such as the Geronimo project as part of an EJB 3.0 > container. Given the existing momentum forming behind JPA even at this > early stage, we are confident that an industrial-grade ASL > implementation of JSR220 will attract a diverse community. > Criteria > > Meritocracy > =========== > The Open JPA committers recognize the desirability of building software > as a meritocracy and look forward to growing a healthy community of > developers to enhance the JPA APIs. > > Community > ========= > The proposed committer community is includes members of the BEA JPA team > and several individuals from the Apache community. > > Core Developers > =============== > Fourteen of the initial committers are BEA employees. One of those is a > committer on the Apache JDO project. We anticipate that five of these > fourteen will be involved in the core code development, and the other > nine will be involved in documentation and ongoing QA for the project. > > Three of the initial committers are committers on the Geronimo project. > Two are IBM employees involved in the WebSphere product team. One is > from Intel. > > Alignment > ========= > Open JPA will be a candidate for use in Geronimo as the default JPA > implementation. Other projects that have general-purpose JPA needs may > be users of the Open JPA project. > > Open JPA has some level of alignment with the Apache DB project. In > particular, the Open JPA codebase already includes support for Derby > databases. > > JPA is for use in any Java application, not just J2EE. Therefore, any > application that needs to do data persistence in the object/relational > style (including any application that currently uses Hibernate) will > benefit from Open JPA. > > License > ======= > The existing codebase is owned by BEA and is subject to a proprietary > license. The applicable code will be relicensed under the Apache > Software License 2.0. > > > Avoiding the Warning Signs > ========================== > > Orphaned products > ----------------- > Open JPA is a derivative of the basis of the BEA WebLogic Server (WLS) > EJB3 JPA implementation, and so is an important piece of the BEA code base. > > As this is a very eagerly anticipated specification for the Java > community, we expect that this project will continue to grow and develop > within its own community, and be embraced by other open source projects > (such as Geronimo) as well. > > Inexperience with open source > ----------------------------- > The authors of the existing code (who will be part of the initial > committer list) have experience with open source development already, in > both professional and personal contexts. Examples: serp ([WWW] > http://serp.sourceforge.net) (used in Kodo currently), sqlline and jline > ([WWW] http://sqlline.sourceforge.net and [WWW] > http://jline.sourceforge.net) (used by the Kodo development team, and > used by the Apache JDO team), Growl ([WWW] http://growl.info). > > Four of the initial committers have extensive experience within the > Geronimo project, among other open-source projects. > > Homogeneous developers > ---------------------- > The members of the initial committer list have been working in a > distributed, multi-national, asynchronous environment for the last five > years, while working at SolarMetric. We had a team of up to 7 people > working from 6 different locations over the course of the last five years. > > Reliance on Salaried Developers > ------------------------------- > Most of the developers are paid by their employer to contribute to this > project, but given the anticipation from the Java community for the a > JPA implementation and the committers' sense of ownership for the code, > the project would continue without issue if no salaried developers > contributed to the project. > > No ties to other Apache products > -------------------------------- > Open JPA will likely be used by Geronimo, requires some Apache products > (regexp, commons collections, commons lang, commons pool), and supports > Apache commons logging. > > A fascination with the Apache brand > ----------------------------------- > We think that Open JPA is something that will benefit from wide > collaboration, being able to build a community of developers and > committers that outlive the founders, and that will be embraced by other > Apache efforts, such as the Geronimo project. > > Scope of Subprojects > ===================== > No subprojects proposed. > > Initial Source > ============== > BEA Systems, Inc. will contribute the initial core source code for > implementing JPA. > > ASF Resources to be Created > =========================== > > Mailing lists > -------------- > * open-jpa-dev@ > * open-jpa-commits@ > * open-jpa-ppmc@ (with moderated subscriptions) > * open-jpa-user@ > > SVN Repository > -------------- > [WWW] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/open-jpa > > JIRA > ---- > Open-JPA (OPEN-JPA) > > Initial Committers > =================== > - Abe White (awhite at bea dot com) > - Marc Prud'hommeaux (mprudhom at bea dot com) > - Patrick Linskey (plinskey at bea dot com) > - Pinaki Poddar (pinaki dot poddar at bea dot com) > - Steve Kim (stkim at bea dot com) > - Seetharam Param (sparam at bea dot com) > - Reena Mathew (rmathew at bea dot com) > - Jacob Thomas (jthomas at bea dot com) > - Ajay Prabhu (aprabhu at bea dot com) > - Sathish Santhanam (sathish at bea dot com) > - Maruthi Nuthikattu (maruthi at bea dot com) > - Anurag Bahl (abahl at bea dot com) > - Mihir Kulkarni (mihirk at bea dot com) > - Srinivasa Segu (srinivasa dot segu at bea dot com) > - Greg Campbell (gcamp at yjsinc dot com) > - Eric Lindauer (e_lindauer at yahoo dot com) > - Gianny Damour (gianny dot damour at optusnet dot com dot au) > - Matt Hogstrom (matt at hogstrom dot org) > - David Jencks (djencks at apache dot org) > - Kevin Sutter (kwsutter at gmail dot com) > - David Wisneski (wisneskid at gmail dot com) > - Geir Magnusson Jr (geirm at apache dot org) > - Craig Russell (clr at apache dot org) > > Sponsor > ======= > We kindly request the Incubator PMC to accept sponsorship for this proposal. > > Champion > ======== > Geir Magnusson, Jr. (geirm at apache dot org) > > Mentors > ======= > - Eddie O'Neil (ekoneil at apache dot org) > - Brian McAllister (brianm at apache dot org) > - Geir Magnusson, Jr. (geirm at apache dot org) > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Davanum Srinivas : http://wso2.com/blogs/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
