On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin <[email protected]> wrote: > the excalibur components are mature, well used and well tested but > they predate OSGi. this means that it's difficult for projects who are > dependent on excalibor components to jump to OSGi. these components > might also a new lease of life since OSGi is currently a little short > of some of the basics.
No kiddin'... > AIUI some other projects have forked and ported some but IMHO it would > make more sense to maintain these centrally. in the end, they might > end up in felix commons but we could make a start here. Sure! > this idea is crazy - i know - but if sufficient apache folks are > interested and can be granted karma then it's not impossible. I think we'd be happy to grant karma to responsible apache committers. We'll need someone to help out release-manage more than anything I think -- porting avalon components is easy as pie generally. If the builds still work (IIRC I fixed it all up for maven2 a while back) and someone else does the coding I might even be persuaded to do some of that :) -- cheers, Leo Simons -- http://lsimons.wordpress.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
