+1 Woonsan
----- Original Message ---- > From: Ate Douma <[email protected]> > To: Portals PMC <[email protected]> > Cc: Portals Discussion <[email protected]>; > [email protected] > Sent: Fri, April 9, 2010 12:01:47 AM > Subject: [VOTE] Termination of the WSRP4J incubator project > > Dear Portals PMC and Portals community members, The WSRP4J incubator > project has been dormant for several years already. The last commit dates > back almost 2 years ago, the last emails send to the user/dev mailing list > even > longer than that. An important activity blocker for the Portals > committers has been the unclear situation with the possible IP issue. That > issue has finally been addressed sometime last year and no longer holds a > lock > on further progress for the project. However, although there is known > interest in a proper WSRP implementation within Apache Portals, especially > when > integrated with the Jetspeed-2 Portal, it looks like the WSRP4J project > itself > lost its momentum, its active committers and its community. The facts > are: the current WSRP4J code base is now too outdated: based on also outdated > Pluto 1.x and targeting the WSRP v1.0 spec while the WSRP v2.0 spec is > available > already for almost 2 years now. If a proper WSRP implementation is wished > for, it should now implement the v2.0 spec and should be easy to integrate > with > (at least) current Jetspeed-2 Portal. Trying to revive the WSRP4J project or > even just reusing the outdated code-base for that purpose no longer makes > sense. > More likely we'll start writing a new WSRP (v2.0) producer from scratch > within > the Jetspeed-2 project itself, and a generic WSRP consumer portlet > application > at Portals Applications. As the Mentors of the WSRP4J project haven't > been active in a long time either, the Portals PMC as Sponsor of WSRP4J has > taken over their responsibilities. Therefore I'm asking the Portals PMC > to VOTE for proposing the termination of the WSRP4J podling to the Incubator > PMC. This Vote is open for the next 72 hours. Please cast your > vote: [ ] +1 for termination of WSRP4J [ ] 0 for > Don't care [ ] -1 for No, please keep it alive (do provide solid > arguments why) With kind regards, Ate Douma
