Rick Hillegas wrote:
Recently, the DB PMC discussed whether we should make Derby a top level
Apache project. The consensus seemed to be that a) Derby is mature
enough to be a top level project, b) no-one felt passionately one way or
another, c) therefore this decision should be left to the Derby
community. It seemed to me that the major argument for promoting Derby
to be a top level project was
+ This would increase Derby's visibility.
The major argument against promoting Derby to the top level was
- This would force us to rototill our website.
Just to note that all of the above is Rick's opinion and not any
official position of the DB-PMC.
I personally think there was at least one reason given that was more
significant that updating the web-site. Since the discussions on DB-PMC
are private I'll leave it to the individual who raised it there to raise
it here if they so desire.
Dan.
