Tetsuya Kitahata, The "Incubation Process" document on the web site had indicated that the sponsor should come from the project that the "incubating" code would eventually be promoted into. Since trying to make use of Jakarta code is where I noticed the missing piece, that's the most obvious place it would go.
I am surprised there isn't more interest in a common internationalization framework within Jakarta. But then I have been assuming that there are non-English-speaking "members" in Jakarta, not just "committers" and other users of the code. When the proposal was first submitted to the list, there seemed to be some initial interest - I even got some suggestions for improving the code and incorporated those into later revisions. But if there isn't much interest at this point, I fear it will be difficult to get it into Jakarta at a later time. I also fear that if I go back to simply continuing the development of the code myself, that eventually the need in Jakarta will be recognized, but I will be too far along at that point to convert everything to it. Or worse yet, the need will be recognized at different times within each Jakarta subproject, resulting in each subproject doing internationalization their own way. BTW, thanks for sending the test "properties" file in Japanese. I did incorporate that into the code, but just on my side so far. Robert Simpson Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: > Hello, Robert, > > Personally, I am interested in this project, but I am not a *member* > in ASF. (Just a *committer* in jakarta) > How about posting your message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ?? > (subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Maybe, you can find the ASF *member* outside of jakarta. > > Here's a list of the number of *committer* and *member* in ASF umbrella > ( Originally created by Steven Noels) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Amount of committers: 677 > > "Name","committers","members" > "ant","34","8" > "apr","42","32" > "avalon","80","15" > "cocoon","60","14" > "commons","10","10" > "db","35","9" > "embperl","13","6" > "httpd","145","111" > "incubator","26","12" > "jakarta","314","35" > "james","13","3" > "java","7","1" > "maven","25","4" > "mod_dtcl","9","4" > "modperl","18","7" > "tcl","9","4" > "ws","86","11" > "xml","259","28" > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > There are only 35 potential "Mentor"s (I mean, sponsors) in jakarta, as > you can see. If you are confident you can build a powerful community, > IMHO you do not have to stick to seek the Mentor in jakarta. > > I hope this mail might help you to some extent. > > Sincerely, > > -- Tetsuya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > On 3 Jul 2003 15:23:10 -0000 > (Subject: [i18n] Internationalization subproject sponsor?) > Robert Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To current members of the Jakarta project: > > > > Is there any current member of the Jakarta project who would be interested in > > sponsoring the entry of the Internationalization subproject into the > > incubator? > > > > The Internationalization subproject would be somewhat different than the > > other Jakarta projects in that there would be two types of contributors: > > > > 1. the (traditional) code contributors > > 2. the language translation contributors > > > > So far, the reponses I have received regarding people would would be interested > > in contributing have all been outside Jakarta - mostly language translators. > > Since the Internationalization subproject would most likely fit into the > > Jakarta project, it would help to have a sponsor from within Jakarta, per the > > "Incubation Process" documentation. > > > > The subproject proposal and initial code contribution can be found earlier in > > the Jakarta General mailing list, or here: > > http://www.itoolset.com/i18n/PROPOSAL.html > > > > Without a sponsor, I will probably move the code that was extracted in > > preparation for submission to Apache back into the iToolSet package hierarchy > > and let it pass as an Apache contribution until there is more interest in a > > common Internationalization architecture within Apache itself. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > Robert Simpson > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----------------------------------------------------- > Tetsuya Kitahata -- Terra-International, Inc. > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.terra-intl.com/ > (Apache Jakarta Translation, Japanese) > http://jakarta.terra-intl.com/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
