This vote has been open for 4 days now. Thus, I'm going to close it. There were 13 +1 votes and 1 0 vote
+1: dkulp, jstrachan, bmargulies, jgenender, apaibir, ubhole, pjones, blin, ningjiang, ffang, ema, jmao, jliu 0: gmazza Thus, this vote passes. Off to the IPMC for final approval. Dan On Thursday 06 December 2007, Daniel Kulp wrote: > This discussion has been open for a week now so I think we should go > ahead and call the vote. > > Basically, we are voting on the CXF parts of the proposal of accepting > the WS binding and tooling from the Yoko project. > > Here is my +1 > > > > Dan > > On Friday 30 November 2007, Matt Hogstrom wrote: > > The members of project yoko have been considering the future of Yoko > > as a project. There have been several milestones delivered and the > > project is used by other ASF projects. The project is not as > > active as other ASF projects and it makes sense to move the code > > from Yoko to other projects. The Yoko team has the following > > proposal for your consideration. > > > > Proposed Code Donation from Project Yoko to Apache CXF and Apache > > Geronimo > > > > The Yoko community has been successful in delivering several > > milestones of the ORB implementation while in the Apache Incubator. > > These milestones are used by other Apache projects (namely Geronimo > > and Harmony) to support their releases. The WebServices bindings > > are dependent on CXF. The Yoko community has decided that the Yoko > > project does not have quite the momentum to carry itself as an > > independent project but has sufficient value for other projects for > > them to consider receiving the code and committers for that > > code-base as sub-projects. Since the code under consideration is > > used by Apache Geronimo, Apache CXF and Apache Harmony the movement > > of the code should continue to allow for independent releases so the > > code can be easily shared with other dependent projects. > > > > The proposed division is: > > > > yoko-spec-corba - this is the org.omg interface classes. > > rmi-spec - this is the javax.rmi spec implementation > > core - This is the actual ORB implementation. > > rmi-impl - This is the implementation of the RMIIIOP support. > > > > These modules are also used by Harmony. > > > > In addition to the code we propose that the following committers in > > Apache Yoko be accepted as committers in Apache Geronimo given their > > demonstration of delivering code, creating releases and functioning > > as a community. Those noted with asterisks are already Geronimo > > committers. > > > > Continued involvement with the core: > > > > Rick McGuire * > > David Jencks * > > Alan Cabrera * > > Lars Kuhne > > Alexey Petrenko > > Darren Middleman > > > > The remainder of the modules in Yoko are part of the webservices > > support and are independent of the underlying ORB implementation. > > > > api -- interface classes used for the web services support. > > bindings -- code to implement the CORBA-Web services bindings. > > tools -- tools for generation WSDL and IDL for the bindings > > maven-plugin -- some maven plugins that can use the tools for > > generating binding-related build artifacts. None of the > > maven-plugin code is used by the ORB. > > > > There is also a distribution directory with some sample > > applications. One set of samples demonstrates using the core ORB, > > the other set is for WebServices. We recommend that the > > distribution directory should move to Apache CXF as the webservices > > examples use the orb samples to bind them as web services. Since > > Apache Geronimo's only use of CORBA is for exporting EJBs, these > > samples are not particularly valuable for Geronimo. > > > > The Yoko community did not have any committers that expressed an > > interest in continuing work on these bindings. As such, only the > > code would be moving to apache CXF. -- J. Daniel Kulp Principal Engineer IONA P: 781-902-8727 C: 508-380-7194 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dankulp.com/blog
