There was formerly some amount of too many build files in Avalon, and some direction from above to prune rather than upsaize to be commons-like. The implication being that Avalon was a single project not many.
Sorry Mircea... - Paul --- Leo Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mircea, > > Mircea Toma wrote: > > I would like to move a few components I published on sourceforge.net to > > Avalon, but I'm not sure where to put them. > > We previously decided to not let any new components in that are not in > use in avalon container. Basic reason for this was the really-really-big > size of avalon. "focus on our core art", "do one thing and do it well", > "not a dumping ground", comments like that. We moved avalon-apps stuff > elsewhere or killed it off. Same with large parts of cornerstone and > excalibur. > > That's the background "mindset". Now, Jakarta has: > > http://jakarta.apache.org/site/newproject.html > > its is a bit extensive a requirement for a few new components, but what > I would still like to see is a bit of an explanation how adding these > components will benefit the avalon project as a whole (and the > components themselves). > > ----- > > Here's what you'll be up against: > > - these components are "avalon components" using avalon-framework. > > Unfortunately, we cannot let that be a judging ground. Avalon's codebase > would swell to be about the size of the whole of jakarta :D > > - these are quality components and they need some exposure so more > people can also benefit from them. > > Exposure you can get with a link from > http://avalon.apache.org/components/ and some posts to user mailing > lists. Experience shows that hosting something in avalon doesn't > automatically mean lots of exposure. Especially because there are so > many components already :D > > - I would like to support object (de)serialization in container X using > the marshaller. > > Ah, that might be a neat idea! You patch the container (with docs and > tests) to support that feature, and if that's a change that goes > through, sure, we'll throw the marshaller into avalon-components. > > ----- > > Not to want to critize you (its cool that you make your comps open > source and that you build them using avalon), but wanting to point out > why we need to be so picky. > > cheers! > > - Leo > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
