dlr 02/02/21 18:00:08 Modified: util PROPOSAL Log: Expanded the Abstract, added Sponsors, and tweaked list of initial commiters. Revision Changes Path 1.3 +17 -7 jakarta-commons-sandbox/util/PROPOSAL Index: PROPOSAL =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/jakarta-commons-sandbox/util/PROPOSAL,v retrieving revision 1.2 retrieving revision 1.3 diff -u -u -r1.2 -r1.3 --- PROPOSAL 24 Aug 2001 21:42:10 -0000 1.2 +++ PROPOSAL 22 Feb 2002 02:00:08 -0000 1.3 @@ -4,21 +4,31 @@ Abstract: -The Commons Util package is a home for tool and utility code which is -shared amongst many projects. The code housed in Util will have no -external dependencies (i.e. import nothing outside the core java.* -packages). +The Commons Util package is home to latchkey code that one might +expect to find in the java.util, java.lang, or java.text packages +which does not fall clearly in the domain of another Commons package. +The code housed in Util attempts to have few external dependencies +(i.e. be miserly with the number of imports outside the core java.* +package). -Looking at each Commons project is a product, the Util package is a +Looking at each Commons project as a product, the Util package is a location for utilities that aren't large enough to necessitate the overhead involved with full productization (i.e. with starting a whole new project). -Initial commiters: +Sponsors: + +Geir Magnusson, Jr. (geir) +Bayard (bayard) +Scott Sanders (sanders) + + +Initial commiters (implicitly including Sponsors): Daniel Rall (dlr) -Jason van Zyl (jvz) +Aaron Smuts (asmuts) +Jason van Zyl (jvanzyl) Current maintainer of Base64 class (Jeffrey Rodriguez?) Leonard Richardson (leonardr) Kasper Nielsen (knielsen)
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