On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 14:48, Marcel Offermans <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4 Feb 2011, at 14:35 , Toni Menzel wrote: > > Speaking of legal entity: its stucks me a bit that ASF plus Eclipse > Foundation can do it. > Sure, more big companies behind it but i wonder if it makes sense to do that > so we comply to the "Open Source TCK License" - which is - if i read that > correctly, free of charge. > > Only individuals can become a committer or member of the ASF, so that's not > it. But it's probably the fact that the ASF itself is a foundation and as > such a legal entity. > > In germany we have this Eingetragener Verein" thing in order to become a > legal entity for all kinds of non commercial activities. Probably too much > effort just to get the TCK but maybe there is more behind this (being able > to receive tax deductable donations etc.) > > It would probably also mean that there would be more required than just > "creating a new Jira account" to sign up for OPS4J, if you want access to > the TCK. > > Another thing is what it takes for an individual to have a look at the TCK > (not actually using it) in order to see if it makes sense to improve it ? > Just thinking because it has something to do with test/verification of OSGi > components .. > > Why not build an open source TCK instead? If you start with collecting all > the "integration tests" for existing open source implementation, you might > actually have a reasonable starting point. At Luminis we did some work on a > testing framework [1] (as you know, based on Pax Exam) that contains several > tests for open source framework implementations and displays the results in > a nice matrix [2]. Why not join forces and extend that together? > Greetings, Marcel > [1] http://opensource.luminis.net/wiki/display/OSGITEST/OSGi+testing+framework > [2] http://opensource.luminis.net/svn/OSGITESTRESULTS/trunk/index.html
Well it really depends on what you're looking for. I know what's the status of pax-web is. It's robust and mature. And even if it will never be a certified implementation, that won't stop me from using it. And I also agree that passing a TCK does not really guarantee anything about the maturity / stability of any project. > > _______________________________________________ > general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/general > > -- Cheers, Guillaume Nodet ------------------------ Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ ------------------------ Open Source SOA http://fusesource.com _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/general
