On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:53:17PM -0700, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > If you ask me, ViewCVS is a 'tool that promotes reusability.' Note > the phrase 'creation and maintenance' in the charter. It might be a > stretch, but I'm not sure by how much though. So, I believe I could > construe how ViewCVS fits under commons. I'd like to find a home for > my libtool-replacement as well - it's sort of in the same boat as > ViewCVS.
Naw, Greg has it right. Neither of these fit within the charter given to Commons, IMHO. We have to be careful not to try and fit round pegs into square holes. Part of the problem Jakarta is up against is a multiplicity of round pegs that probably shouldn't have been created under the limited scope of Jakarta. That doesn't mean there isn't another place for these projects to live at the ASF. > A tools project might be sufficient, but I definitely see how we > could start with a tools component/section in commons. If enough > code comes by under 'tools,' we spin it off into a tools top-level > project. At this point, I definitely don't want to start yet another > top-level project. I'm not sure I can handle the email load... -- Commons is not about spin-off projects. Commons is about a permanent home for reusable libraries. (all of this is IMHO) -aaron
