On Dec 3, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Rick McGuire wrote:
Below is a proposal that Matt Hogstrom, one of the mentors of the
Yoko project, has put forward for moving on with the Yoko project.
In a nutshell, the Yoko community has basically decided there is not
a lot of continuing interesting in moving this project forward.
This decision does have a major impact on Geronimo, as Geronimo uses
the Yoko ORB was a key element to allow Geronimo 1.2 to support both
the 1.4 and 1.5 JVMs, and also was a necessary element for achieving
j2ee5 certification. The Yoko ORB gives Geronimo cross JVM
portability which was not available before. At the current time,
there's probably no suitable replacement that has all of the
advantages that the Yoko ORB provides.
In a nutshell, Matt's proposal is for the core ORB elements of the
Yoko project become a subproject of the Geronimo project. These are
the pieces of Yoko that Geronimo has a dependency upon. These are
essentially the org.omg.* clases, the javax.rmi.* classes, plus the
implementation classes backing those spec interfaces. Along with
the subproject, there are 6 committers who have expressed interest
in continuing to work on the core ORB code. 3 of the interested
commiters are already Geronimo committers. Matt's proposal would
grant the remaining 3 Geronimo committer status as well.
There's one important caveat in assuming owership of this package.
The core ORB is also used by the Harmony project to add CORBA and
RMI support to the Harmony JVM. Included with assuming ownership of
the package would be a commitment to keep the core ORB a
"standalone" component. This means not adding direct dependencies
on Geronimo and keeping dependencies on other packages to a minimum.
This code is fairly stable now, and has already passed certification
on multiple JVM instances, so I don't expect there will be a lot of
overhead in supporting this. The bulk of the recent work to get
this to pass certification have been done by Geronimo committers, so
Geronimo is probably the most appropriate new home for this code.
Anyway, this needs to have some discussion and be put to a vote.
Below is the proposal that Matt posted to the Yoko dev mailing list
about this move. The Yoko community seems very much in agreement
that project does not have sufficient momentum to graduate from the
incubator.
Thanks for the summary, Rick.
I'm certainly interested in seeing support for Yoko move forward. This
seems like a positive move. It would have my support.
After a brief review of the Yoko dev list archives and based on
Matt's, and Alan's recommendations, I would support adding Lars,
Alexey, and Darren to as Geronimo committers.
Keeping Yoko as a standalone component is an easy decision, IMO. Hard
to see it any other way...
--kevan
