Why is CDDL an issue? That was on Cliff's list of acceptable licenses.
I wasn't sure which licenses were cool and which weren't.
Google also just announced that they're going to do hosting of open source prrojects[1]. They are in the early days (don't even have infrastructure in place for downloading releases yet), but it has some interesting ideas. If you like labels in GMail, you'll like their approach to issue tracking. (By the way, Greg Stein is the engineering manager at Google for this project.)
I really like JIRA but I'd be curious to see what their alternative for issue tracking is. My instinct is to stick with a more established host since we'd like this to be available and we'd like it to be easy for people to access it. I'm not wild about Sourceforge. What do you think about java.net? I'm sure you investigated it when you were considering Shale options. By the way, are you aware of any Apache restrictions on using depedencies like Hibernate in Maven? It seems like excluding them from the default build would be a idiotic policy. With everyone switching to Maven now, it would just push projects that want to use Maven right out of the ASF.
I tried to register "shale" as a project, but they've got an interesting twist in the signup process ... if you duplicate the name of an existing SourceForge project, they ask the owner of that project for an ok (on the theory that you might just be trying to do a "land grab" on the project names. We could undoubltedly do "shale-goodies" or "shale-petstore" or whatever there, if we wanted.
Is Shale a sourceforge project?
Craig
Sean
