"Daniel F. Savarese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 23/12/2003 11:09:24 AM:

> 
> In message 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ga
> ry Gregory writes:
> >Well, now I am switched around to a "-1" as well :-(
> >
> >> From: Rodney Waldhoff 
> >> 1) a-c organization: I think the organizational structure of
> >> apache-commons (one list per component, balkanized karma rights, 
etc.) is
> >> bad for those components technically and socially, and possibly bad
> >> for the ASF from an oversight perspective.
> >
> >I am not that familiar with a-c but I would prefer to keep all of the
> >Jakarta commons in one lump as much as possible. It is nicer to work 
and
> >explore in just one place, and perhaps offers more opportunity for
> >cross-pollination between components.
> 
> I think something folks are missing is that if J-C moves to A-C, then
> all J-C committers become A-C PMC Members and can change the rules that
> don't make sense once A-C has incorporated J-C.  For example, and it's

I'm failing to see what extra oversight this brings us.

> only a hypothetical for expository purposes and not a suggestion, we
> could create a [EMAIL PROTECTED] list for components geared
> toward supporting Jakarta projects instead of using per component lists.
> ASF projects aren't implemented in a top-down fashion.  They evolve
> to meet changing needs.  The A-C organization will change accordingly.
Jakarta Commons is more than about providing common components to Jakarta. 
It provides them to TLPs as well.
--
dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting
Blog:      http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/





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