On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 12:06, Howard M. Lewis Ship wrote:
> I think you'll find good news when you read the mailing list.  A year ago, I
> wouldn't have tried to move Tapestry to Jakarta, because the community
> wasn't strong enough, but now it seems like participation is there, with
> more people contributing ideas and code.  It's also gratifying when users
> ask questions on the list and two or three other Tapestry developers answer
> the question before I even see it.
> 

yes!  :-)

> "Benevolent dictatorship".  Probably should have expanded on this.  Without
> a formal comittee or voting system, I've reserved the right to ultimately
> decide what goes into the framework and what doesn't.  Part of this is
> scheduling, deferring suggestings and minor fixes into later releases.
> Also, the pace of releases has been determined by me (i.e., when to freeze
> code, when to make a final release).  I'd rather have a voting system for
> that and buy in from others because its a lot of responsibility to determine
> when the code is stable enough (for instance, there is a rather obvious bug
> in the 2.2 release that should have been flushed out during the beta).
> 

I guess my knee-jerk is "why don't you just do it" first then become a
Jakarta project...  For POI we started doing this just before we moved
over... Even though in a tight-knit group we all thought it was a big
joke (I used to kid that Marc and I were the same person, I was just
impersonating him so that we had enough active committers ;-) )...  

It sounds like you have a reasonable idea of whats going on..

> Much of the evolution of Tapestry starts with a core idea (often, but not
> always, from me), is discussed on the list and in the Wiki, and eventually
> turned into code (and tests, and documentation).
> 

Wiki's rock!  :-)  They are only now beginning to take root here.

I'll be there shortly to take a look.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Jakarta General List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 11:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Tapestry joins Jakarta
> 
> 
> > Just my 2c..  If they have a strong community and meet the
> > requirements... Cool.
> >
> > I think I'll go read their mail archives at let you know how much of it
> > I think is being developed by one guy.  (I mean if all of those people
> > submitted a trivial patch suddenly the day before this proposal was put
> > in and that kind of thing...)
> >
> > It states that its currently run as a benevolent dictatorship but will
> > change when it moves over..  I think that is the incorrect order of
> > operations...
> >
> > Just my opinion..  I'm sorry for the inevitable people whom it has
> > offended.
> >
> > -Andy
> >
> > On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 09:33, Sam Ruby wrote:
> > > John McNally wrote:
> > > > -1.
> > > > Jakarta already has two webapp frameworks and I do not see any reason
> to
> > > > add another.
> > >
> > > It is a non-goal of Jakarta to have only one webapp framework, or to
> > > limit itself to two.
> > >
> > > - Sam Ruby
> > >
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