On 8/3/06, Sean Schofield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm considering an option that Craig mentioned earlier - moving this to google's new open source area. While I understand the reasons for the tight restrictions that ASF has, it makes it difficult to host a fully functional sample app using several different technologies. On google (and presumably dev.java.net), we can also distribute binaries wither hibernate, etc. That will allow more people to use the app. No matter how easy you make it, some people are just putoff by compiling their own source. I admit, sometimes I fall into this category (if my interest is only casual.)
One other potential benefit of a "goodies" project somewhere else would be the ease of incorporating new developers -- we can be as free as we would like with commit rights to a goodies area, and be able to observe actual behavior before potentially extending an invitation to join the framework project itself. If we do move it, I'd still like some loose integration between shale
and this project. This would include links to the shale-petstore from the shale site and referring people on the user list to the shale-petstore when it serves as an appropriate example.
I'd definitely be OK with having an "affiliation" relationship from the Shale website itself. This would be somewhat analogous to what Struts does with a corresponding SourceForge project[1], for a lot of the same reasons. Thoughts? +1 on doing this. Sean Craig [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/struts
