On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 18:33, Sam Ruby wrote:
> James Taylor wrote:
> >
> > I think that the sanest viewpoint that has been expressed in this thread
> > is that both projects are young and need to incubate. Sure, one project
> > definition format will be nice to have across apache someday, but were
> > still working out the kinks and it's not obvious (well, except to us
> > developers =) which is the better way to go.
> 
> If it is obvious, then don't be shy.
> 

It is obvious.  If not for the egos in the way.  +1 for centaven +1 for
collaboration +1 for nonpartisan sensibility +1 for suiting ALL of POI's
needs (served only partly by maven or centipede)....but read my tagline
again ;-)

> More history.  Once upon a time, Gump descriptors were project centric.
> Witness:
> 
>    
>http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-alexandria/proposal/gump/project/Attic/jakarta-turbine-2.xml?rev=1.3&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
> 
> Then, Jason decided to normalize them
> 
>    
>http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-alexandria/proposal/gump/project/Attic/jakarta-turbine-2.xml?rev=1.4&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
> 
> Centipede opted to build upon this work.  I really would like to converge
> the efforts, if even only on the project definition syntax.
> 
> - Sam Ruby
> 
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