Main criteria are community and readiness for 1.0. Getting a 1.0 immediately after promotion is actually really quite important.
Stephen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Pugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > While not calling for a formal vote, I wanted to gather feedback on any > issues that would bar allows commons-email to exit the sandbox. For those > of you not familiar with it, commons-email is an attempt to provide a > lightweight simple library for sending emails using the JavaMail library. > Text, HTML, and attachement type emails are supported. > > This code was originally written for Turbine, and is therefore quite mature. > Since then it has been langushing in Sandbox until some new contributors > have started submitting patches. > > I feel that this code is very close to being ready for a 1.0, and all the > remains is some polishing of Ant script and promotion out of the Sandbox. > > The only "issue" I can raise is that while there are two Emeritus > committers, John McNally and Jon Stevens, I am the only active Commons > committer working on [email]. However, we have some active contributors, > specifically Mark Lowe and Corey Scott who have provided unit tests and > testing. I think that getting [email] out of the sandbox will allow it to > grow. > > Please send me your feedback, and, assuming the perspective is postive, I'll > call for a formal VOTE promotion later this week. > > I have updated the docs showing the increased code coverage etc: > http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/email/ > > Eric Pugh > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
