I hate to interrupt all the good fun over standards, bike sheds, and general good community feelings, but I would like to solicit community opinion on something unrelated to DVSL or Jon Stevens (both of which I like, btw...)
Recently, it was proposed that ObjectBridge be brought to Jakarta as a subproject. Costin suggested, and I supported, that a subproject of wider scope be created to allow the collection of similar technologies into one larger subcommunity (that isn't an exact quote, but I think he'll agree in general with that.) The idea would be to bring in ObjectBridge, but create a Commons-like environment in which other projects can be brought. Call it DB-Commons as a working name. There are some good reasons, including community alignment, inter-project synergy (there, I used the word in an Apache-related post), and ease of discovery for new users and developers. Off the top of my head, in Jakarta we have lots of db related tools already (Torque, commons-dbcp, and I am sure others...), and having a db-focused subproject in which they can be brought to with a lower barrier than 'fullsubproject' might be very benficial. We already have the successful Commons model to use as a starting point. Anyone have any comments? -- Geir Magnusson Jr. Research & Development, Adeptra Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-203-247-1713 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
