Welcome! I am not on the PMC, but commons is a pretty easy place to work. If you would like to move Convert from dormant into the sandbox I suspect you would meet little resistence since the policy here is failry liberal with respect to giving ASF committers access to the commons sandbox.
Ralph On Mar 4, 2010, at 3:10 PM, Adrian Crum wrote: > Hello all. My name is Adrian Crum and I am a PMC member of the Apache Open > For Business project (OFBiz). > > Apache OFBiz is an ERP application, and it contains some technologies that > would be suitable for spinning off into stand-alone libraries. > > One of those technologies is a Java object type conversion framework. I > noticed that Commons has a dormant Convert sub-project, and I believe that > would be a good place for our library. In other words, I would be interested > in adopting the Convert project. > > Another technology suitable for spin-off is our Temporal Expression library. > You can read more about that in our Wiki - > http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBENDUSER/Temporal+Expressions. > I'm not sure where that would fit into the Commons project. I expect it to be > developed further into a complete calendaring code library. > > Both of these technologies are written in Java, and they are already using > the Apache 2 license. > > The Apache OFBiz developer community supports my efforts to spin off these > technologies, and some in the community would likely join any new projects > they create. > > I would greatly appreciate any advice or direction in this matter. > > Thanks in advance! > > -Adrian > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
