On 12 Dec 2005, at 23:00, Peter Smith wrote:
It is not clear to me what exactly are all the ramifications of
ServiceMix becoming an Apache Geronimo sub-project.
Can someone please explain so even a complete dodo who has never
worked with ASF projects before can understand the impact.
Sure :)
Some example questions.....
SOURCE
- Source location shifted to apache site. Is that all current
ServiceMix source code?
Yes. Though Apache cannot use some software licenses yet like *GPL or
commercial software so a few things will have to stay back at
codehaus; so we'll probably eventually rename the servicemix project
at codehaus to be something like servicemix-utils or something to
keep anything that Apache can't host. But at least 95% of the
codebase is now at Apache...
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/servicemix/trunk/
- Will this cause ServiceMix code/direction to become somehow more
Geronimo-centric?
No. But hopefully it will mean we'll form closer ties to other Apache
projects like Axis, Synapse and Tuscany and I hope we'll reuse more
infrastructure from Geronimo and help to shape its direction like JCA
& JTA and XBean (which is also moving over). Another good example is
making sure ServiceMix is fully supported in the portlet based
Geronimo management console etc.
- And what exactly does "ServiceMix extensions at codehaus" mean
and/or how does it differ from the apache code?
See above
- Any source licensing changes/issues?
No - it's all still Apache Software License version 2.0
- Same roadmap?
Yes; though with a bit more cooperation with existing Apache projects.
COMMUNITY
- Do new apache mailing lists completely replace "Old codehaus"
ones? Or will they both operate in parallel, or what?
I'm hoping we can forward the old mail lists to the new ones; but in
the mean time I think the new apache ones replace the old ones.
- IRC, Wiki & ServiceMix Home page all same with same location or
everything to move and if so where and when?
IRC and Wiki are staying where they are. At some point we'll rehost
the website at (temorarily) http://incubator.apache.org/servicemix/
then when we leave the incuabtor it'll be http://geronimio.apache.org/
servicemix/. Though in both cases we should be able to redirect
http://servicemix.org/ to the Apache site.
- JIRA same?
Stay where it is for now. One day we may export/import into Apache's
OTHER
I can't think of much more; one minor difference; we'll be following
the Apache voting rules. Up until the move we'd just chat on IRC and
figure we needed a release and just do it; now we'll call a vote to
release and to make major changes. Other than that it should be
business as usual.
James
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