On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:28:03AM -0700, Greg Stein wrote: ...
And it *does* seem like we're getting input from the J-C committers (Morgan, yourself, etc). I worry more about the XML Commons people; but then again, maybe there isn't an active enough community to be much bothered either way.
I'm here too as a jakarta-commons committer. :)
FYI, XML Commons has always limited itself only to code used in one or more xml.apache.org projects. It's not like Jakarta Commons where being quality reusable software is good enough. Consequently it has very little code (JAXP, Norman Walsh's catalog stuff) and the mailing list is mostly dead.
A couple of months ago, there was quite a bit of argument about whether being quality reusable software was "good enough" to be in jakarta commons. There were statements that called any piece of code not in active use by another jakarta project a "waste of time" that "shouldn't be here".
I don't want to see such an attitude here in apache commons, which is one of the reasons I'm here trying to participate. I want to see a place where "reusable libraries and components" can be built irregardless to whether they are in active use in another apache project, so long as they are in active use somewhere (i.e. they have a community). Users of apache software aren't always necessarily apache projects, and requiring a library or componant to have an apache user is completely unnecessary in my view.
regards, michael -- Michael A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
