Diane Holt wrote: > > Maybe the question should be: What's special about Ant that > isn't special about all the other sub-projects under Jakarta?
It gets to be first...depending on the outcome of this dicussion, more may follow. > Additionally, what are the advantages/disadvantages of pulling > Ant out of its sub-project status and into a top-level project? Perhaps move overhead. Perhaps more autonomy. I doubt anybody knows for sure. The motivating factor behind all of this is that subprojects such as Ant aren't exactly covered by the original charter of the Jakarta PMC. [It is worth pointing out that at the time the Jakarta PMC was formed, nobody could have anticipated the success of Ant]. This needs to be rectified somehow. Amend the original charter? Create a separate PMC? - Sam Ruby
