+1 --- Rodney Waldhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As has been long discussed here and elsewhere, the > following is a proposal > for migrating the Axion database project to Apache > DB. > > If approved by the Apache DB PMC, it is our > understanding that Axion will > then enter the incubation process. We suggest Jason > van Zyl be named the > "champion" or "sponsoring individual" (or whatever > we're calling it these > days) since he is an Axion committer, an Apache DB > PMC member, an ASF > member and has volunteered for the job, although a > number of Axion > committers are also ASF members and hence would meet > the incubator's > "champion" criteria. > > Non-normatively, there is working draft of how we > expect this migration to > proceed available at > <http://axion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=698>. > > ========================================= > > Proposal for Creating an Axion sub-project within > the Apache DB Project > > (0) Rationale and Consideration of Sub-Project > Criteria > > Axion is a relational database engine currently > developed and released > under an Apache/BSD-like license. > > While it has not yet had a formal 1.0 release, Axion > is not a new project. > Axion has had three binary "milestone" releases, the > first of which was > released over a year ago (9 July 2002) [1]. The > project has been under > active development since early 2002 [2] and has > shown regular and diverse > growth in both the development and user communities. > > The Axion team has operated under meritocratic > guidelines [3] similar to > and derived from those of the ASF since its > inception. > > The Axion project has strong personal ties to the > Apache community. Many > members of the Axion community are contributors or > committers to one or > more ASF projects, serve on one or more ASF PMCs or > are ASF members. [4] > > The Axion project has strong technical ties to the > Apache community. > Axion uses several ASF libraries [5], and as a > project, has contributed > code back to those libraries where appropriate [6]. > Some existing ASF > projects use or support Axion currently, others have > expressed an interest > in doing so (notably the Apache Directory Project). > > Similarly, many current ASF projects could advantage > of a robust, > ASF-licensed Java database engine and there several > projects with which > Axion could collaborate on infrastructural > components. > > (1) Scope > > The project will create and maintain a (primarily > relational) database > engine and related utilities, to be distributed > under an ASF-license. > > (2) Initial Source > > The initial source of the project will be the > material currently available > from <http://axion.tigris.org/>. This source is > currently available under > an ASF-style license, and the community has elected > to migrate to an ASF > license. [7] > > (3) Apache DB Resources to be Created > > (3.1) Mailing Lists > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > (perhaps others as needed) > > (3.2) Version Control Repository > > * cvs/db-axion on cvs.apache.org > > (3.3) Web Site > > * http://db.apache.org/axion/ > > (3.4) Other > > Issue tracking (bugzilla), email archive > (eyebrowse), etc. entries as > appropriate. > > (4) Initial Set of Committers > > The following is the current set of committers to > Axion at Tigris. > > * Ahimanikya Satapathy (tigris id: ahimanikya) > * Chuck Burdick (tigris id: cburdick) > * David Pekarek Krohn (tigris id: dkrohn) > * Daniel Rall (tigris id: dlr, apache id: dlr) > * Doug Sale (tigris id: dsale, apache id: dsale) > * Geir Magnusson Jr. (tigris id: geir, apache id: > geirm) > * James Burke (tigris id: jburke) > * James Strachan (tigris id: jstrachan, apache id: > jstrachan) > * Jason van Zyl (tigris id: jvanzyl, apache id: > jvanzyl) > * Morgan Delagrange (tigris id: morgand, apache id: > morgand) > * Martin Poeschl (tigris id: mpoeschl, apache id: > mpoeschl) > * Rodney Waldhoff (tigris id: rwald, apache id: > rwaldhoff) > * Steve Polyak (tigris id: spolyak) > > Each of these folks an "inactive" or "emeritus" > committer to Axion at > Apache DB. An "inactive" committer may become > "active" by (1) submitting > a signed CLA > (<http://incubator.apache.org/forms/ASF_Contributor_License_2_form.pdf>) > to the ASF, if they haven't already and (2) > notifying the Axion dev list > of their intention to become active. > > (A) End Notes and Links > > [1] <http://axion.tigris.org/releases/index.html> > > [2] > <http://axion.tigris.org/servlets/SummarizeList?listName=cvs> > > [3] <http://axion.tigris.org/guidelines.html> > > [4] Compare those with the "Developer" role or > stronger at > <http://axion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectMemberList> > with > <http://www.apache.org/~jim/committers.html> > > [5] Currently Axion uses 8 external libraries when > you include required > and optional build, test and run-time dependencies. > Of these, 6 are ASF > libraries (Ant, Jakarta-Commons-Codec, > Jakarta-Commons-Collections, > Jakarta-Commons-Logging, Jakarta-Regexp, Maven). > > [6] Most notably, the commons-primitives component, > which was initially developed within Axion then > contributed to > Jakarta-Commons, although there have been other less > substantial > enhancements and contributions. > > [7] See > <http://axion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=697>, > <http://axion.tigris.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=dev&by=thread&from=131142> > and others.
===== Morgan Delagrange http://jakarta.apache.org/commons http://axion.tigris.org
