There's a very in depth and bureaucratic membership process. Q1: What's your login? Q2: Have you answered Q1? :)
On the Convert codebase - don't feel the need to have to adapt the existing one unless you want to base your code on it. Stick it in as 'ofbiz-convert' or something and we can argue the name when it comes to promotion time (you'll have my vote for the 'Convert' name to be available). Hen On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > 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: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
