On Fri, 3 May 2002 20:37, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > I have no idea why they want to move here, but to me, being the 'marquee' > project in a new Apache subproject has incredible upside for a project > trying to establish 'mindshare' in what seems to be a confusing vertical. > No doubt, being part of Jakarta is too. But I would bet that in the > industry "Apache creates new subproject" is going to get a lot more > attention than "XXX joins Jakarta".
Yep. Basically it gives the OJB guys a LOT more exposure initially and put to good use this will greatly increase the interest in the project. > I would be very interested in moving poolman to 'the new thing', as that > would bring lots of people to take a look, I suspect, as it's also pretty > well known. Again, this isn't at all about poolman - just throwing it in > there as a possible supporting resource and to commit myself to > involvement. poolman would also be good addition IMO because as you said it has a very large userbase and that userbase will come to db.apache.org see OJB and may start using that aswell ;) > The only problem is that yours so far is the only public positive comment > so far. I let it stew for a bit and will talk to OJB in the intrim, but if > people don't see this as a good idea, then it very could might not be. You never know unless you try. You wanting it and OJB wanting it should be enough to make it happen. To summarize from last mail > > Or to put it simply if you want it done and OJB wants it done then it > > will get done - otherwise it wont, simple as that really. -- Cheers, Peter Donald -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
