On Sat, 10 Oct 2015, Phil Steitz wrote:
On 10/8/15 8:45 AM, Nick Burch wrote:
TL;DR - There's a handful of Java mini-projects, one per file
format, each with a library and command-line tools, in and around
Apache Tika. Would Commons be a good Apache home for them?
This depends on what you mean by "home." What does not work is just
parking code here and hoping someone else picks it up. What can
work fine is moving some code here and working on it and building
community around it here. There just needs to be a micro-community
interested and willing to generate interest in the code and maintain
it. If this is the case, then you all are most welcome to join us.
There's a small community for each, with a fair bit of overlap, and from
Tika at least a strong desire that bugs get fixed and new releases pushed
our after!
Not enough to manage 3 +1s and some spares that a full PMC would need for
each, and probably never would do for each format individually. It would
need others from Commons to help with the release checks and voting. It
would also involve releases of tool jars, possibly tool wrapper scripts,
along with the more normal (I think?) for commons Java library jars.
Does that still sound like something suitable for commons?
Or do you think we'd be better bundling these handful of libraries and
tools up in their own "a bit like commons" project with some volunteers
from Tika and one or two others?
Thanks
Nick
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