On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, robert burrell donkin wrote:
On 27 Dec 2004, at 11:35, Torsten Curdt wrote:Noel J. Bergman wrote:
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There has been
some suggestion that they be cleaned up by migrating them to some other
domain to be mothballed. The code, web site, and mailing list archives
would be preserved, and could be restored at such time in the future when a
community might arise.
Hmm... the question is whether we really *can* mothballing them. IMHO too many projects rely on them. It's an important piece of technology. At least bugfixes need to be applied. FWICS migration costs (e.g. to asm) are fairly high.
There *are* people that have patches in the queue.
i would like to suggest again something that costin suggested a long while ago now: for mature sub-projects we remove the extra layer and organize them directly under jakarta. so rather than being run as sub-projects with their own separate committer lists, the jakarta community runs them directly.
Effectively I'm +1 on that. I think of it as hope that enough of the self-contained projects ask to move to TLP and then we promote Commons components to sub-project level and make CVS Jakarta-wide.
Suggestions that they move into Commons is effectively an attempt to get this community feature.
So how should we do it under the assumption that everyone doesn't up for TLP? Do we add a jakarta-user and jakarta-dev mailing list that is the merger of N sub-projects and effectively another Commons, or just kill the N mailing-lists in favour of the commons lists and give CVS access to Commons committers to the N sub-projects?
Hen
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