Ooops, should have been > I believe that the subcultures exist mainly at the subproject level. The > PROJECTS, like many states and provinces are, simply granfalloons. ^^^^^^^^ > > http://www.kcoyle.net/granfalloons.html
-T. Ted Husted wrote: > > "Geir Magnusson Jr." wrote: > > > > On 1/6/02 8:06 AM, "Ted Husted" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > "Geir Magnusson Jr." wrote: > > >> I thought I would share, as my thinking about removing community containers > > >> here in Jakarta, XML et al resonates well this. > > > > > > Personally, I just think its mainly a matter of packaging. By > > > definination, we are all trying to share the same ASF culture, though > > > each codebase will have its own flavor. > > > > If you really believe this, then the right thing is to get rid of *all* > > containers : > > > > Jakarta + HTTPD + XML + TCL + PHP + APR + Perl > > I believe that the subcultures exist mainly at the subproject level. The > subprojects, like many states and provinces are, simply granfalloons. > > http://www.kcoyle.net/granfalloons.html > > I believe the projects are useful as an organizational entity, but have > little impact on the culture of a subproject. If the two were at > varience, the subproject would fork. People do not join the "project", > they join the subproject. The projects are happenstance, but they are > useful as an organizational convenience. > > I also believe that the PMCs themselves should be seen as an > organizational entity, and conversations like this should be taking > place on a public apache-projects list that all PMCs would be invited to > join and use for PMC business. > > It is very difficult to have a reasonable conversation about POI, or > RPC-XML, or the others that have come up, when the other PMCs are not > part of the discussion. > > -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA. > -- Building Java web applications with Struts. > -- Tel +1 585 737-3463. > -- Web http://www.husted.com/struts/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
