Author: bodewig Date: Fri Mar 13 03:52:54 2009 New Revision: 753102 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=753102&view=rev Log: proposal text
Added: commons/sandbox/compress/trunk/PROPOSAL.txt (with props) Added: commons/sandbox/compress/trunk/PROPOSAL.txt URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/sandbox/compress/trunk/PROPOSAL.txt?rev=753102&view=auto ============================================================================== --- commons/sandbox/compress/trunk/PROPOSAL.txt (added) +++ commons/sandbox/compress/trunk/PROPOSAL.txt Fri Mar 13 03:52:54 2009 @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +Proposal for Compress Package + +(0) rationale + +Ant contains packages to deal with tar, bzip2 and zip archives that +have been reused in various projects in- and outside of Apache. + +Compress provides a focused home for these packages together with +new external contributions for the ar and cpio formats with a focus on +being a reusable library - unlike the code in Ant. + +(1) scope of the package + +The package provides a unified API for different archiving and +compression formats together with implementations for these +algorithms. + +(1.5) interaction with other packages + +No interactions planned ATM. + +(2) identify the initial source for the package + +Compress' code is already part of the sandbox. + +(2.1) identify the base name for the package + +org.apache.commons.compress + +(2.2) identify the coding conventions for this package + +The code uses the conventions from the Jakarta Turbine package. + +(3) identify any Commons resources to be created + +(3.1) mailing list + +No changes. + +(3.2) SVN repositories + +The package will need to move from the sandbox. + +(3.3) JIRA + +A new Commons Compress JIRA project shall be created and the issues of +the Compress Component of the Commons Sandbox project migrated to the +new project. + +(4) identify the initial set of committers to be listed in the Status File. + +Henri Yandell +Stefan Bodewig +Torsten Curdt Propchange: commons/sandbox/compress/trunk/PROPOSAL.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ svn:eol-style = native