OK, I haven't discussd my thinking yet, so here goes. IMO the WS project is a disparate collection of stuff. This leads to: a. A lack of a coherent community b. A tough job for users to get what they want from the WS project
I think that Axis2 and related technologies would be better served as a TLP which gathers just related technologies together. This should encourage a coherent community within the TLP, and making a TLP level decision to, for example, ship an Axis2 RSP bundle with Rampart and Sandesha pre-configured - the lack of whih is something I'm sure if hurting Axis2 at the moment, Given those thoughts, in my perfect world, I'd split Axis2/Java and Axis2/C into different TLPs as they do have pretty different communities (user and dev). As to which Java based projects I'd ship to Axis2/Java and which I'd leave in WS... Axiom... leave in WS and promote to a proper sub project. It has a lot to give, but is currently very effectively hidden from users. I think this would continue to be the case if it were moved under an Axis2 TLP. Neethi... last time I looked, it was only really useful when used with Axis2, so I'd move that to an Axis2 TLP WS-Commons Transports... These are genuinely used by multiple TLPs and there is unlikely to be much 'user' interest in this project because we'll presumably ship them as part of Axis2 and Synapse. Therfore I don't think it matters much, so staying in WS seems reasonable. XmlSchema... leave in WS and promote to a proper sub project. Used widely, not Axis2 specific, and deserves a little more visibility. Sandesha2, Rampart, Kandula2, Savan... move to an Axis2 TLP. These are (reasonably) tightly coupled to Axis2, drive Axis2 in interesting ways and are in demand by a large number of Axis2 users. Moving them to an Axis2 TLP would (IMO) allow that PMC to ship a compelling bundle and build a coherent community. So that's what I'd do in an ideal world, and the proposal we woted on was close enough that I +1'd in the belief that we would finesse things over time. David On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 4:59 AM, Eran Chinthaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I think some of the components within WS projects should also move to the > new TLP. So this proposal is to take those also in to the new TLP. > > Proposal > ------------- > Move following projects, that are within WS project now in to a new TLP, > named as "Axis2" > > 1. Axis2 (Java and C) > 2. All the projects within WS-Commons sub-project > 3. Kandula2 (might have to refactor existing code base to extract only > Kandula2) > 4. Rampart > 5. Sandesha > 6. Savan > > > With Mettha, > Eran Chinthaka > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Health is the greatest gift; contentment is the greatest wealth; trusting is > the best relationship; nirvana is the highest joy. - Dhammapada >
