I'm not a comitter but in general I see that this could be a positive step for both communities. May also help to move Turbine onto it's next phase.
/colin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicola Ken Barozzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Avalon Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Turbine Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 11:41 AM Subject: [PROPOSAL] Avalon Component repository in Apache Commons > Dear Avalon and Turbine Community, > > following prior discussions I had with you, I'm writing here to make > a proposal about a common codespace. > > Turbine services will most probably become Avalon Components/Services > (C/S), and Avalon already has a lot of them too: currently they are in > Cornerstone and Excalibur. > > Using a common framework will bring us closer, and will make it possible > for us to _finally_ share code in terms of C/S. > > As history has showed me, external projects that use Avalon Components > are happy to be able to offload their maintainance, but this is only > when all works well... I'm sure that many users of these components > would be happy to be involved more directly in the management of their code. > > I think that if Turbine devs could interact more directly with the code > of existing Avalon C/S they would use _them_ instead of making another > version. Likewise for Avalon devs. > > Thus I propose that we create our dev-space about Avalon-based C/S > inside the new Apache Commons Project, and be able to share commit > privileges between our committers on a per-component basis. > This is to enable collaboration without the fear that yet-unknown > committers will step all over our code. > > This has been already proposed on the Apache Commons list and seems ok. > > If you want to partecipate in a common discussion about this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thank you. > > -- > Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - verba volant, scripta manent - > (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:turbine-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:turbine-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:avalon-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:avalon-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
