Everyone,
Following various discussions with the Avalon PMC, select ASF members and
others, the active developers of the Merlin source code together with a
number of dedicated users have formulated a plan to escalate and expand the
development of the Metro platform outside of ASF.
We have compiled a complete roadmap of what this means in practical terms to
various user groups, available at;
http://www.dpml.net/dpml/admin/pdfs/metro-roadmap-20041007.pdf
We hope that this document covers most aspects of the involved fork, even
though it is not yet complete. For instance, the document doesn't yet explain
exactly how this will take form.
* Digital Product Meta Library (dpml.net) is an existing resource hub of
digital products. We have agreed to utilize this name and the resources
available behind it, mainly ibiblio.org.
* Driven by our user focus here in Avalon, we are now pushing the "Open" in
"OSS" to a concept that we call "Open Participation Software". Contributions
and committer status are available to everyone.
* Organizational Lightweight, open process, open participation, ASL2.0, and
lots of fun.
We are not fully up to speed (yet), but have the following resources
available, which should be sufficient for most users at this point in time;
Mailing lists;
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Description: Development related stuff.
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Description: Questions and general user support.
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Web sites;
www.dpml.net Static content and static repository.
paris.dpml.net Dynamic content
Subversion repository;
http://paris.dpml.net/svn/metro
Scarab Issuetracking
http://paris.dpml.net/issues
(paris.dpml.net will become operational *soon*, as we are awaiting ibiblio.org
admin's to add the host to the DNS and a new IP to be installed. Sorry for
the inconvenience, and announcement of availability will be made on the
admin-dpml@ mailing list.)
We would like to thank the entire ASF, members, committers and users for the
time at the Apache Avalon project, for their valuable support and the
experience we have gained. Perhaps Metro's and ASF's paths meet again in the
future.
Cheers,
Niclas Hedhman
Stephen McConnell
Timothy Bennett
Andreas Oberhack
Cameron Fieber
Peter Neubauer
David Leangen
Mårten Österberg
Alexis Agahi
Raffael Herzog
Note: ASF in the above context stands for The Apache Software Foundation.
P.S. If you have any problems with any of these resources, please contact
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