David Blevins wrote: > I think it would be a really nice gesture to send an invite to Jetty > even if they are unlikely to move. I think it's really great to let > them know the doors are always open.
Thanks for the inclusion David, Note that in any invite, I think we should go so some lengths to explain the motivation. For most projects it will be a BIG step to donate their IP and to adopt a new management structure and they must be clear why they are doing it. We certainly don't want to create the impression that geronimo in future will only work with subprojects and that you must assimilate to belong. So careful wording is required to get the true spirit of the invitation across - which I think is that iff they WANT to be a part of the bigger community then they are more than welcome. For Jetty, I would appreciate an invite, but we're unlikely to accept at this point. My instincts are naturally against aggregations and I have technical issues with aggregations like jakarta, jakarta-commons, jboss and even tomcat (I'd really like to see jasper as a stand alone project). I believe that a good software component should be simple to integrate no matter what the management structure of the project is (and we will all be m2 integrated soon). Sharing a management structure does open the possibility of poor coupling between components or even just poorly documented interfaces etc. So technically I don't like aggregation of projects and it can act as a hindrance to reuse and inovative new uses. But if similar groups of people are performing similar processes on similar software.... then obviously there are great advantages in sharing the administration overheads. So I think aggregations that are community driven are a good thing. So the pitch definitely should be targetted at the community rather than at project. cheers
