<A JSF newbie giving his $0.02/>
One open question is the amount of support Oracle will be providing ADF
Faces once it is in the Incubator, as well as the amount of community
usage ADF Faces will generate. With a full effort by Oracle, also their
openness to allowing non-Oracle employees as committers, as well as
solid community support, perhaps it would not be advantageous to
immediately merge the two projects. But if Oracle mostly phases out its
involvement with the project once it is in the Incubator, and no real
community support is generated, then the MyFaces team can always pull
out and incorporate into its codebase whatever it wants from the
(abandoned) ADF Faces code.
As for Oracle stacking their team with too many non-active committers,
who would subsequently need to be granted karma to MyFaces with any
merging, I don't think this needs to be a concern: Once the ADF Faces
code is donated to Apache, the code is all owned by Apache. The MyFaces
team is then most welcome to take whatever it wants from the ADF code
(and vice-versa), without needing to bring in any ADF Faces committers.
Indeed, AFAICT, MyFaces is welcome to incorporate *any* code from any
other Apache project without permission or need to bring in the other
project's committers. It would seem like a nice compromise to have ADF
Faces in the Incubator, and MyFaces providing karma only for individual
ADF committers who provide numerous patches that move the ADF Faces code
into MyFaces.
Glen
John Fallows wrote:
Btw, after the code becomes publicly available, I'm convinced that it
needs to spend some time in the Apache Incubator rather than trying to
fast track it out of there too aggressively.
Obviously we'll need to refactor the ADF Faces codebase to meet Apache
MyFaces packaging requirements, but more importantly, there'll be an
opportunity to gain insights from the wider MyFaces community to better
prepare our exit from the Incubator.
No one wants ADF Faces to get stuck in the Incubator, but when it does
exit, we will all benefit from having the whole MyFaces community behind it.
Kind Regards,
John Fallows.
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