> -----Original Message-----
> From: Niclas Hedhman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:55 PM
> To: Avalon Developers List
> Subject: Re: My Negative Vote
> 
> On Wednesday 21 January 2004 10:53, Niclas Hedhman wrote:
> > What is avalon-extension? AFAIK, 'extension' is Merlin specific and
> should
> > be under the Merlin category, possible together with a 'facilities', and
> > not have the merlin-http and merlin-jmx.

>From the avalon-extension javadocs:

/**
 * <p>Utility class that represents either an available "Optional Package"
 * (formerly known as "Standard Extension") as described in the manifest
 * of a JAR file, or the requirement for such an optional package.</p>
 *
 * <p>For more information about optional packages, see the document
 * <em>Optional Package Versioning</em> in the documentation bundle for your
 * Java2 Standard Edition package, in file
 * <code>guide/extensions/versioning.html</code>.</p>
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Craig R. McClanahan</a>
 * @author Peter Donald
 * @version $Revision: 1.3 $ $Date: 2003/12/15 18:06:34 $
 */

It, like several other Avalon subprojects (many in excalibur) could
potentially find a home in Jakarta Commons.

As for "merlin-facilities", that's a good question.  We're going to have
more and more merlin specific extensions and I'm not sure where they belong
in CVS, let alone JIRA.

> > And an avalon-sandbox could be useful as well, no?

I thought about that one.  I suppose it could very useful as a tool to help
projects move out of the sandbox properly.  I did add a spot for Avalon# and
Merlin-Developer.

Point is, we'll have a better idea how to organize JIRA once we actually
start using it.  So let's figure out a small set of projects that we know we
will use properly and if we need to add more, we can.
 
> One more thing;  Users typically don't have a clue where a problem is, so
> unless you can enter issues under the "group" we would need some "General"
> categories as well.

I worry about issues getting lost/ignored in such a case, or general abuse
of such a setup.  Users will probably gravitate to the container they are
using since that is generally the "point of contact".  If there were any
uncertainty, that's the place it could be entered first.

J. Aaron Farr
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