Sam Ruby at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Another thing to take into consideration is the wishes of the majority of
> committers of the code base. Particularly existing code bases. If the
> majority of committers of any project (or even a group of projects
> collectively) decided that they no longer belonged here, then I would be
> disappointed certainly, but I do what I could to help them with their
> transition.
IMHO, it doesn't _really_ matters whether a certain project is out of scope
or not. I mean, everyone has its view on what could be in our scope. One
focus point, IMHO, is the _community_ around a certain project.
Take an example, Log4J, the latest addition to our "range", some might fear
it is an out of scope project, some might not, but for sure the community
behind it is a good community, sincerely oriented in the "Apache" way of
doing open source.
As Brian keeps saying, we're not a software repository, we're not
SourceForge, we're here to host communities of developers, communities
working in our way.
So, getting back to the RDB "problem", all I'm saying is that it's pointless
for us to go out there and chase that piece of code, we should, instead,
chase the community of people behind the project, if they are inclined
towards us... And, from what I heard, they're not...
Just my 0.02 UKP... (Approx 0.03 US$)
Pier
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