All,
Earlier this month, I submitted my resignation as PMC Chair of the
Apache Geronimo project. There are many reasons why I chose to do
so, but given that we'd just achieved the major milestone of the
certified J2EE 1.4 server with the M5 release, I felt that the timing
was right.
I'm pleased to announce that on wednesday, the Apache Board accepted
my resignation and has designated Ken Coar as the new PMC chair. Ken
is a founder of the ASF, currently a director, and has broad
experience here at the ASF and in other open source communities.
This is an administrative change and will have no impact on project
progress or activity whatsoever. Personally, I'm not going
anywhere :) and am still interested in all areas of this project. In
the future, I may be working at a reduced energy level on some
aspects, but with the addition of Ken's participation, this is a net
gain for the project.
As a community, we have achieved an incredible amount over the last
two years, and I'm very proud of having the opportunity to help us
get where we are. We undertook a momentous task back in August 2003
and it's a credit to all involved that we completed it so quickly.
It's been an interesting project to this point, and I look forward to
what our future brings. J2EE 1.4 clearly isn't the final chapter in
enterprise middleware, and this project is in a great position to
take on whatever comes next.
But that's next. For now, on to Apache Geronimo 1.0 :)
geir
P.S. Although Ken goes by the name of "Rodent of Unusual Size", I
don't expect that you should call him "Rodent"....
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Geir Magnusson Jr +1-203-665-6437
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