On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Torsten Curdt wrote:
The problem with moving Commons up is that when you look at where Jakarta
needs to go, and when you look at where Commons generally is now; they are
the same places - and it's hard to distinguish between the focuses.
Hm... interesting... funnily I have never seen it like that before.
Always had the
impression jakarta is for "products" while commons is for libraries.
Sometimes
it's just not that clear where to draw the line though.
Yup. Compare Jelly to ECS or Regexp.
Jakarta needs a way to blend community oversight with small numbers of
active committers per component. That's pretty much Commons. For a start,
I would merge BCEL, BSF, ECS, JCS, ORO and Regexp dev lists into either
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Why that combination? ...feels quite unnatural to me - I am sure so it will
for the users.
It's our list of small largely inactive subprojects. We know that none of
those are going to go TLP, and their dev lists are quiet by an order of
magnitude compared to an inactive TLP potential project like Slide.
Combining mailinglist would definitely get a -1 from me. I don't want the
few BCEL subscribers left to unsubscribe because they get annoyed
because they are receiving mails they are not interested in.
We might get away with that at commons - but in general I think it's
quite a bad idea.
We've a bunch of relatively small codebases and subprojects that on their
own are a stretch to maintain oversight over. It's a match for the Commons
approach of having those communities share the same space and help each
other on general issue topics, such as releases.
The reason I don't suggest moving to commons-dev is that that would
definitely be too much of a shock to those on the current dev lists, and
even with those lists being combined traffic is still going to be low. I
also don't suggest a merger of the user lists anytime soon.
1) BCEL, BSF, ECS, JCS, ORO and Regexp dev lists merging
2) Alexandria dies
3) POI to TLP
4) Consider merging user lists from 1)
5) Flatten HttpComponents, Velocity, Taglibs.
Some mad ideas :)
Sorry that I have to agree with the last sentence in some extend ;-)
*grin*
Hen
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