+1 for Incubator. CORBA app serving is compelling (to many). It is in Jakarta's space. That it leverages Avalon is great.
- Paul --- Berin Loritsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have not received any further updates or information about the Avalon > Enterprise package, and we have come to the June "deadline" for the > resolution of the OpenORB licensing issues. Truthfully, it does not > look like we are any closer to resolution on those issues. > > We have only one developer that has shown real interest in the > Enterprise stuff, and there have been no commits to it in a while. > That leads me to believe that it one of the following is true: > > 1) It is dead code of no real use to anyone. > > 2) The Avalon team doesn't have any real idea of what it is, how > to use it, or what problems it solves. > > 3) It is of real use to people outside of Avalon, but not necessarily > inside. > > Truthfully, I think the answer is somewhere between 2 and 3. To that > end, we have a few options ahead of us: > > 1) Move it to sandbox. > > 2) Move it to OpenORB's CVS repository. > > 3) Try to build a community around it in Incubator. > > > My guess is that the software really is useful, but without anyone > besides Stephen even knowing what is in there it really makes things > difficult to help out. I would like to have a resting place for it > that really makes sense. > > From what I understand, it is not an Application in the Phoenix SAR > sense, but rather a set of components. As a result there is no real > reason for it to exist in Avalon Apps. > > Please consider the three alternatives above and start thinking about > what is best for the long term location for Avalon Enterprise. We need > to look at that. __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus - For a better Internet experience http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/yplus/yoffer.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
