On 1/3/07, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip/>
Part of all that would be to take the common information out of the component sites and into a Jakarta page for that component. Much like the download section currently. The tricky part is one of l&f, it's very odd to jump out of a site and into another site, however to have a Jakarta with many components we have to step away from the common l&f attempt we currently have (which I think just causes us pain) and be more lenient.
<snap/> I've snipped most bits that I more or less agree with. On the LnF front, I don't think we're overly concerned about the CSS a component uses per se, if at all a component wants to use a different one (though I think its nice that most Commons components have sites that look similar). Its more about standardization with the objective of making lives of users and developers easier (for users, fact that Javadocs, licenses are in a predictable place as you mentioned -- and for developers, the fact that the site is generated using similar means etc. which allows, for example, me to jump in and feel at home with the [digester] site if I want to volunteer RM'ing it). Generally boiling down to my opinion that a Commons/Jakarta component needs to have communal responsibility.
Time to do some work - I'll stop rambling on :)
<snip/> Thanks for taking time to elaborate :) -Rahul
Hen
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