+1
"Vincent Massol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear PMC members,
>
> Cactus (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/cactus) has been a subproject of
> Jakarta Commons for about 6 months now (The project itself is 11 months old
> and was started on SourceForge before being donated to ASF). The Commons
> project has served well its role of incubator. Cactus has grown quite well,
> more users are using it every day and its community is growing fast. In
> concertation with the Jakarta-Commons committers, it is our belief that it
> has now reached a state were its place would be better as a Jakata top level
> project. There are several reasons for this :
>
> * It is now an established project,
> * All polls done have shown a great interest for it and the majority of its
> users are already using it in production,
> * It will get even more visibility as a top level project,
> * Jakarta-Commons is more about development frameworks whereas Cactus is
> more used as an application (in the sense that is is usually used as is and
> other projects do not need to extend it and incorporate it in their project
> in the same way as a component). Thus it would fit more as a standalone
> project.
> * Cactus committers are committed to continue making it a thriving project.
> * Now that Cactus provides unit testing for standard APIs (JSP, Servlets,
> Taglibs, Filters, EJB), we would like to focus even more on unit testing
> internal Jakarta projects like Struts, Velocity, Jetspeed, ... i.e. provide
> even more useful features for these projects so that the cost of writing
> unit tests is lowered even more. By making Cactus a top level project in its
> own right, it is easier to spread the word and work with other project who
> are willing to try it out.
> * Simply because we think it is now good enough to be a top level project !
> :-)
>
> Here are the total number of gathered votes for moving Cactus to a top level
> position :
>
> Commons Committers:
>
> Morgan Delagrange, +1
> Craig R. McClanahan, +1
> Rodney Waldhoff, +1
> Scott Sanders, +1
> Geir Magnusson Jr., +1
> James Strachan, +1
> Vincent Massol, +1
>
> Others :
>
> Sam Ruby, +1
> Stephen Crans, +1
> Pier Fumagalli, +1
>
> Could PMC members be kind enough to review this proposition and make a vote
> accordingly.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> -Vincent Massol
>
>
>
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