My +1
Rick McGuire wrote:
The discussion thread has been out there long enough for comment, and
those who have responded appear positive about the prospect. I think
it's time to put this to a vote. The full proposal from Matt Hogstrom
is attached at the end, but the basic proposal we're voting on
implementing in Geronimo is:
1) Accept the Yoko core modules (corba spec, corba core
implemenation, rmi spec and rmi implementation) as a subproject of
Geronimo.
2) The Yoko subproject will be maintained as a stand-alone component
so it can be used by Harmony as well as Geronimo.
3) Lars Kuhn, Alexey Petrenko, and Darren Middleman be invited to
join the Geronimo project as commiters so that they may continue
contributing to the Yoko ORB.
This is a single vote on the entire proposal (accepting the code and
inviting the commiters).
[ ] +1 Implement the Yoko ORB subproject in Geronimo as proposed above.
[ ] 0 No opinion
[ ] -1 Do not implement the Yoko subproject as proposed.
Only PMC member's votes are binding, but we invite anybody in the
community to speak up and vote on this.
Since the vote runs over the weekend, I'll conclude it at 10::00
Eastern time on Monday.
Rick
Matt's full proposal presented to the Yoko project:
The members of project yoko have been considering the future of Yoko
as a project. There have been several milestones delivered and the
project is used by other ASF projects. The project is not as active
as other ASF projects and it makes sense to move the code from Yoko to
other projects. The Yoko team has the following proposal for your
consideration.
Proposed Code Donation from Project Yoko to Apache CXF and Apache
Geronimo
The Yoko community has been successful in delivering several
milestones of the ORB implementation while in the Apache Incubator.
These milestones are used by other Apache projects (namely Geronimo
and Harmony) to support their releases. The WebServices bindings are
dependent on CXF. The Yoko community has decided that the Yoko
project does not have quite the momentum to carry itself as an
independent project but has sufficient value for other projects for
them to consider receiving the code and committers for that code-base
as sub-projects. Since the code under consideration is used by Apache
Geronimo, Apache CXF and Apache Harmony the movement of the code
should continue to allow for independent releases so the code can be
easily shared with other dependent projects.
The proposed division is:
yoko-spec-corba - this is the org.omg interface classes.
rmi-spec - this is the javax.rmi spec implementation
core - This is the actual ORB implementation.
rmi-impl - This is the implementation of the RMIIIOP support.
These modules are also used by Harmony.
In addition to the code we propose that the following committers in
Apache Yoko be accepted as committers in Apache Geronimo given their
demonstration of delivering code, creating releases and functioning as
a community. Those noted with asterisks are already Geronimo committers.
Continued involvement with the core:
Rick McGuire *
David Jencks *
Alan Cabrera *
Lars Kuhne
Alexey Petrenko
Darren Middleman
The remainder of the modules in Yoko are part of the webservices
support and are independent of the underlying ORB implementation.
api -- interface classes used for the web services support.
bindings -- code to implement the CORBA-Web services bindings.
tools -- tools for generation WSDL and IDL for the bindings
maven-plugin -- some maven plugins that can use the tools for
generating binding-related build artifacts. None of the maven-plugin
code is used by the ORB.
There is also a distribution directory with some sample applications.
One set of samples demonstrates using the core ORB, the other set is
for WebServices. We recommend that the distribution directory should
move to Apache CXF as the webservices examples use the orb samples to
bind them as web services. Since Apache Geronimo's only use of CORBA
is for exporting EJBs, these samples are not particularly valuable for
Geronimo.
The Yoko community did not have any committers that expressed an
interest in continuing work on these bindings. As such, only the code
would be moving to apache CXF.
