On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 17:33, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. I'm the only person who has touched the ws site. If you want to be > annoyed, be annoyed at me.
BTW, I was wondering why that didn't generate any SVN commit notifications. At least I didn't see any kind of notification that would have allowed me to review your changes. I think that is something that should be fixed. > 2. It never occurred to me, when I started, that Axis would, at this late > date, have a 'web site' consisting of a raw HTML link to the old content on > the WS site. I didn't set out to disturb anyone or anything. It was only > after I had put considerable effort into initial cleanup that I discovered, > to my distress, that Axis had no site. And, and that time, I sent a query to > the axis list, and received no replies at all. > 3. I appear to be the only person with any time or energy available for the > web site on the WS project, such as that project is. I cannot accept > responsibility as the historical curator of the old Axis content. > Personally, I don't think that history is very important or interesting; > what is important is making the current resources available to the current > interested parties. I appreciate that some may find this an extreme > position. However, the Apache Way, as I understand it, is that the direction > is set by those available to do the work. > 4. In my opinion, the WS PMC is only viable if there are a group of people > who are, in fact, prepared to collaborate on common goals. If the actual > state of affairs is that there is one XmlSchema developer and some > sympathizers, and ditto for Neethi and the others, then it should, again in > my opinion, finish fisioning. Fission would be fine with me. I'd set up an > adequate XmlSchema web presence, period. I think we should indeed seriously consider promoting projects such as XmlSchema, Axiom and Woden to TLPs (and any subproject that is viable on its own). > 5. I have no objection to having some bit of info on a WS project front page > that cites history and links to the successor projects, and I would ask any > interested party to contribute that content to the Confluence section which > is going to become the source of the WS project -- if the project survives > that long. I have no objection to someone supplying me a PATCH to the > existing Forrest site to serve the same purpose: as a committer on the > project I will be more than happy to apply it and publish. > >
