* On 2002-10-18 at 13:51,
  Scott Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> excited the electrons to say:
> 
> Doh, didn't realize the Reply-To was not set.

/me readies apmail access..

> > Was it mature?  Did it have a community?
> 
> On the question of community, is the user base also considered
> community.  For example, Geir attempted to bring PoolMan into Jakarta,
> but the 'community' perceived at that time was only one developer.  The
> thousands of users did not count to anyone but Geir and a few other
> people (me).  I would say that PoolMan was a healthy community (I chose
> to use it because it was the best component at the time, and I was
> getting my questions answered).  Does that count as community?

my current feeling is yes.

> What about a codebase that is mature (jakarta-regexp), and doesn't
> really have any development momentum?

if it's a common component, and would be useful to other projects
than just jakarta, and has no active development, i think it
should probably move to apache commons where it will gain
visibility to everyone else without losing it in jakarta.
situational, of course.

> I would like to note here Sander, that jakarta-commons has only one
> development mailing list for all of the small projects, and it has
> worked out very well from the 'building a community perspective'.  Not
> saying that separate mailing lists are bad, just stating MHO.

i'm reserving my opinion on this one..
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