Unsurprisingly, my +1
Don
Don Brown wrote:
http://wiki.apache.org/struts/WebWork2Incubator
= PROJECT PROPOSAL =
WebWork 2: A Java web application development framework
A proposal to merge the WebWork 2 community and codebase into the
Apache Struts project. The new codebase is slated to become Struts
Action 2.
= RATIONALE =
The members of the Apache Struts project and the members of the
OpenSymphony WebWork 2 project would like to work together on a
next-generation web application framework utilizing an action/request
architecture. WebWork was initially created by Rickard Oberg to
improve on the ideas and functionality of the Jakarta Struts
framework. (Now known as the Apache Struts Action framework.) Since
then, the WebWork community has continued to extend and refine the
framework's capabilities through a long series of releases, the latest
of which, 2.2, brings advanced Ajax, templating, and Java 5
capabilities to its solid WebWork 2 foundation. While, to date, the
WebWork and Struts Action codebases have overlapped, recent movements
to bring consolidation to the web framework landscape have inspired
both communities to work together. Apache Struts has recently
reorganized our codebase into multiple subprojects, two of which,
Shale and Action, represent two separate but equal web frameworks.
Struts Shale serves the nascent JSF community, while Struts Action
serves the established JSP community. The WebWork 2 code would be
brought into the Action subproject as the 2.x branch. The WebWork 2
developers are excited by the prospect of joining the ASF and
collaborating to solve our common need for a solid, action-based MVC2
web framework.
= CRITERIA =
== Meritocracy: ==
The WebWork 2 community is a healthy meritocracy with multiple
developers who do not share a common employer. The creator of the
project has already "passed the torch" to another generation of
developers, who earn commit privileges through their individual
contributions.
== Community: ==
The WebWork 2 community has a strong following with active mailing
lists and forums.
https://webwork.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectMailingListList
== WebWork Developers: ==
The WebWork developers includes individuals who have been with the
project for a very long time and individuals who have only recently
earned commit privileges. Contributions come steadily from all
segments of the community, developer and user alike. Despite being
used by many well-known corporations, WebWork 2 has not received any
direct corporate contributions.
http://www.opensymphony.com/webwork/members.action
== Alignment: ==
WebWork and Struts Action are both action-oriented web frameworks, and
the basic underlying models of the two are similar in many respects.
Thus both projects strive to serve largely the same community of Java
web application developers.
== License ==
WebWork 2 is under the OpenSymphony 1.1 license, a modified Apache
Software License 1.0.
* 2001-2006 http://www.opensymphony.com/webwork/license.action
= AVOIDING THE WARNING SIGNS =
== Orphaned products: ==
WebWork 2 will form the base of Struts Action 2.0 and is under heavy
active development.
== Inexperience with open source: ==
The WebWork 2 project has been operating as a successful open source
project for over four years.
== Homogenous developers: ==
The current list of committers includes developers from several
different companies who are geographically dispersed. The developers
are experienced with working in a distributed environment, and with
resolving differences outside the scope of a common employer.
== Reliance on salaried developers: ==
WebWork does not rely on contributions from salaried developers, nor
have commit privileges been extended based on an individual's employer.
== No ties to other ASF products: ==
The heritage of WebWork yields many close ties with the Apache Struts
community. Many users have used one framework, then the other, and
have different projects in the field that use either. The WebWork 2
codebase also uses several Jakarta Commons libraries.
== A fascination with the ASF brand: ==
After several years of independence, the WebWork developers are ready
to work within a larger community and expose the WebWork technology to
a wider audience. The WebWork community is not seeking the ASF brand
but seeks to collaborate with like minds in the Apache Struts
projects. Both sets of developers are trying to solve the same
problems in the same way, and we feel that we can create a stronger
community and codebase together, than we can working independantly.
= INITIAL SOURCE =
The initial source comes from the WebWork 2 project, which uses CVS
hosted at java.net.
* http://opensymphony.com/webwork/cvs.action
= RESOURCES TO BE CREATED =
* None. (Struts Action SVN module and build systems already exist.)
= INITIAL COMMITTERS =
* Jason Carreira (jcarreira at apache.org)
* Don Brown (mrdon at apache.org)
* Rene Gielen
* Rainer Hermanns
* Ted Husted (husted at apache.org)
* Toby Jee
* Patrick Lightbody (plightbo at apache.org)
* Alexandru Popescu
* Ian Roughley
* JamesMitchell
= APACHE SPONSOR =
The Struts PMC has voted to accept this project upon successful
incubation. ('''''Proposed text; vote has not yet happened.''''')
== Champion ==
* Don Brown (mrdon at apache.org)
== Mentors ==
* Don Brown (mrdon at apache.org)
* Martin Cooper (martinc at apache.org)
* Ted Husted (husted at apache.org)
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