Jon Scott Stevens wrote:

> on 2002/12/18 7:36 AM, "Sam Ruby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> Such codebases (for example, regexp) are heavily
>> depended upon and so interwoven into the fabric of many Jakarta
>> subprojects that it is hard to imagine removing then from the ASF
>> despite the somewhat different community dynamic one sees thre.  There
>> isn't even a quorum to hold a proper release vote or people actively
>> monitoring the bug reports and commits.  This is a problem.
> 
> Hey, I resemble that remark!
> 
> The fact of the matter is that I have picked Regexp back up and have
> recently applied a bunch of bug fixes and closed a number of open issues
> (I spent about 1 hour on it).


I think the point was that we also need people to review the commits and 
people to vote on the release. 


> 20th), I plan to spend another couple hours and make one final release of
> Regexp.
> 
> At which point, I'm going to call the project 'final' and Jakarta can
> figure out what they want to do with it from there. Previous ideas
> included just moving it to be distributed under the ORO project which I
> think is a good idea and will remove some confusion. I will probably be
> willing to help with that.

I don't know what "final" would mean - if bugs are found that affect
projects using regexp ( like tomcat which AFAIK has a dependency ) - then
I hope it'll still be possible to fix them.

My opinion about "stable" projects like regexp: we should change the 
avail to include the whole jakarta ( similar with jakarta-commons ).
This way any project that has a dependency on regexp will be able
to protect itself and either fix the bugs that bite them or review changes 
that may break something. 

BTW - thanks for taking the time to fix the bugs in regexp, and 
congratulations to  the jakarta-regexp team for completing the
project ! :-)


Costin



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