Sorry for the dumb question, I may have missed an important thread, but
what do we gain exactly by moving to a TLP ? What will be different ? I
can see the external aspects like a new web site, new mailing lists and
the loss of the Jakarta brand, but I doubt we are moving just for this.
Will this new structure help us attract more users or more contributors,
and how ? Will we release more components, more frequently ? Will this
improve the quality and the visibility of the projects ?
Thank you for enlightening me.
Emmanuel Bourg
Henri Yandell a écrit :
I think the end should be nigh for Jakarta (those on private@ will
have seen a thread in which I side-topic'd with the feeling that the
end should be nigh for Jakarta). Previously I've suggested that
Commons should flatten into Jakarta and that Jakarta should become a
general 'Java components' project; however there are some negatives to
that that I think are critical.
Firstly, it leaves the future Jakarta with a lot of dead projects that
are going nowhere. That's not going to change in the short to medium
term, so it just becomes a millstone for the project's neck.
Secondly, the Jakarta PMC will always remain a big group of people who
care about the brand name and the various legacies, rather than a
small focused PMC. I think this isn't desirable for any active
community that are a part of Jakarta currently - trying to have a PMC
that are acting as one community when not being one community doesn't
work.
Thirdly, I think by being here we are helping to delay the inevitable
and keeping the old, broken umbrella going. Moving to TLP will help
things move along, and will provide a place for things to move to.
So with that said - I'd like to propose that we move to commons.apache.org.
Hen
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