On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:40 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: <snip>
> One final thing to think about. I know lots of apache people are > opposed to "umbrella projects" for lots of reasons, one of which is the > fragmentation and abandonment that can result. We have certainly not > been immune to that in j-c. Two things that have been critical to > keeping us going have been 1) a relatively small (changing over time) > set of key contributors who look after multiple components and 2) some > "large internal customers" (tomcat, struts, maven et al) whose > committers jump in to push things along as needed. This project would > be starting without the "large internal customers." It would probably > be a good idea, therefore, to start with a narrower, rather than broader > scope, so that the fledgling community would not get fragmented too > quickly and the "key contributors" could emerge. Just a thought. good points it's clear to me that there needs to be sufficient interest from developers with free time for this subproject to be viable - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
