On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:12:17PM -0400, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
> On 7/3/03 7:24 PM, "Greg Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> 3. Jakarta - IMHO this the best place for it.
> >> 
> >> The division of XML vs Jakarta predates me for certain, but I think the main
> >> issues surrounding that are rusty.
> > 
> > The problem is Jakarta itself. Centering a PMC around a *language* rather
> > than functionality is the inherent problem. These questions will continue to
> > arise over and over.
> 
> What's done is done.  As a Jakarta committer I always feel like the guy
> wearing a "I'm here I'm queer deal with it" shirt at a Republican National
> Convention.

Heh :-)

Oh, what was done [Jakarta] was done *very well*. Don't get me wrong on
that. I'm simply trying to point out that a language-oriented PMC is going
to continue to cause decision-making problems like this. Am I suggesting
unwinding Jakarta *because* it is language-oriented? Not at all.

I *would* like to see more TLPs spin out of Jakarta, though. The Board
doesn't have near enough insight into the major Jakarta projects: Tomcat,
Struts, Turbine, Velocity, Gump, etc.

> > When Grisha Trubetskoy wanted to contribute mod_python to the ASF, a good
> > number of people called for creating a 'python' TLP. The Board decided to
> > stop perpetrating the per-language concept. Instead, mod_python was added to
> > the Apache HTTP Server Project (it *is* a module for Apache httpd, after
> > all). mod_php, mod_perl, and mod_tcl fall under the same argument, of
> > course, but they get a Grandfather Pass :-)
> 
> I'm getting de ja vu...  You don't like this community.  I get it...  I'll
> file this on the appropriate file system for such information.  So Jakarta
> is the grandfather of them all... Etc etc

Feh. I didn't say that, and you know it :-)

The community is just fine and has done great stuff. I think the language
focus of the Jakarta, Perl, PHP, and TCL TLPs is the wrong axis for slicing
up where to put codebases. I also think Jakarta is "too big" and needs to
spin out some TLPs.

But "don't like this community" ?!?! Hah.

>...
> I agree.  The question for them:  "Are you a good witch or a bad witch?" ;-)

Euh... :-)

Cheers,
-g

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