Sounds like the basic problem is lack of community. Getting community involves publicity and time. Publicity involves web presence and a release.
Unless the rest of the turbine community are highly interested in JCS, I'd suggest that joining Commons is the best way for you to gain community. It's designed for things like JCS, but has no rules to stop JCS being promoted out of Commons when the time comes. Just by joining Commons you gain a pseudo-community for your project as you'll be sharing a mailing list and others have commit access and can jump in and help for a small task etc [like a release/website]. With an active committer and publicity, contributors quite quickly turn up. Indeed our problem is more one of having contributors to components but no active committer. Other alternatives would be to put JCS into incubation [which seems heavy-handed], to talk with Turbineers about turning Turbine more into a Commons-like environment, or to cast you out into Apache Commons. None of these seem of benefit to JCS. Hen On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Aaron Smuts wrote: > For the short term, I'm not sure what is best for JCS or Jakarta. > Stepping back and looking at JCS in relation to other Jakarta projects > might be helpful. > > The commons is described as a "Repository for small scale, reusable, > code components that are useful in multiple Jakarta subprojects." > A small-scale component does not sound like a good description of JCS. > Instead, JCS looks more like a standalone tool such as Log4J, although > JCS is somewhat bigger. I'm not sure this means it should be its own > project at this point or not. > > JCS is being used on its own outside of Jakarta and within, making it > look more like a candidate for standalone status. Also, there are > commercial standalone caching applications on the market. > > I'm sure JCS would be much more widely used if we got out a release. > Right now, the major impediment is that users have to build it > themselves. If we had a release, more sample applications and further > documentation, it would become more widely adopted. It is somewhat > hidden right now: it's not listed on the main product page on the > Jakarta site. > > One reason one might give for not making JCS a top level project is that > it is understaffed right now, though this may change if it was moved up. > > Aaron Smuts > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
