On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > > there is precedent, albeit comatose, in the sandbox 'filters' > > > and 'servlet' components. > > > Yet another set of components that are not on the Jakarta Commons > > web page (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/). Did it never occur > > to anyone that projects might be comotose because no one knows > > about them? I, for one, have code that could have gone in there, > > but I didn't know it existed. > > Can we agree on how to handle these projects? Every project in the CVS > ought to have a web presence. If there isn't anyting particularly useful > (no one created web content), then we should at least list it with a URL to > its CVS presence. I think we discussed this before, but no one effected a > change.
IMHO, the best way to handle this is to have ONE mechanism to build ONE web site for ONE Jakarta project - i.e. Jakarta Commons. Right now, each component is responsible for putting up its own web presence, and many folks who drop things into the sandbox do not bother doing that - or even providing any documentation at all to indicate what it is / does. If we could decide on one mechanism for generating web content (Maven would be my choice because it does so much for so little work), and have a mechanism that would create a unified Commons web site, that would be great. As you suggest, any component that doesn't have any web content could still have at least a link to CVS. (Or perhaps there's a way to generate a minimal Maven site even in these cases?) The autonomy given to Commons components is nice in some ways, but in other ways I think it hurts us, and the "outside" perception of us. I think it would behoove us to improve our behaviour as a single entity, rather than simply an accretion of handy bits and pieces. -- Martin Cooper > > --- Noel > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
