Indeed, hosting at sourceforge may be the best option for someone willing to take this forward. One of the key reasons I have not taken it forward is that it is no longer an itch I need to scratch.
(I was a liitle tired and stressed in my first reply IIRC, sorry ;-) Stephen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Kitching" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 15:14, Dmitri Plotnikov wrote: > > I am not convinced rehosting Clazz would all of a suddent breath life into > > it. I was the one Stephen refers to as "another", who wrote all that code. > > I stopped working on it some time ago because everybody, including Stephen > > himself apparently abandoned it. Perhaps I was taking it in the wrong > > direction - don't know. I would be happy to pick up where we dropped it off > > in Jakarta commons sandbox. The only trouble has been very little to no > > interest in it. > > > > It *might* not. But from my understanding of the Apache license, it > would be entirely legal to do so, as long as the terms of the license > are followed. > > If none of the commons members are interested in working on the code, > and someone else is but is not a commons member, then there are two > options: > (a) try to get nominated as a commons committer (not so easy), or > (b) try to get a commons committer to perform codereviews+commits on > your behalf (could be hard to find someone if there truly is little > interest in the code from current commons members), or > (c) take the existing code and start a sourceforge project with it. > > I don't personally think option (c) is bad; the code exists and if > no-one at jakarta-commons has the energy/time/interest to push it > forward then it may as well be put to good use by someone who does. > > And if the project gathers momentum on sourceforge, then I think that > commons would be open to a later "re-merger" (probably involving making > the maintainers commons members). > > Of course all this is just my personal opinion. > > Regards, > > Simon > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
