On 10/13/15 4:15 PM, Nick Burch wrote: > 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.
No problem there, as long as it is all RAT happy etc. > > Does that still sound like something suitable for commons? Seems suitable to me. And of course, all are always welcome to contribute to the components we already have :) Phil > > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
