Hi Ajith, +1 , Very well said.
Thank you! Deepal > I should kick myself for not reading Axis2 mail frequently. I just > spent 20 minutes reading the complete thread and just throwing my 2 > cents. > > 1. I am +1 (not a vote, a token of agreement) on making Axis2 a TLP. > I have supported the decision in the PMC and I am still in support for > it. As Deepal says I don't understand why people are so much worried > about making Axis2 a TLP. We have kept all the major components as > subprojects so far and what difference would it make if we house them > in a different place ? > > 2. I have to agree to Dims that we have not been active as usual. > There are open Jira's and I haven't had time to fix the few things > that are pending in my niche projects (XMLSchema and tcpmon) let alone > in Axis2. However I personally feel that it would be easier to do a > better job (better than being done right now) if the teams are small > and focused rather than generic and all over the place. Again the > volume and the size clearly warrants a break just for the ease of > management. Mind you - it would not automatically fix the problem - > the site would not get fixed by magic and the Jiras would not vanish. > However it may make it easier to do so. > For the sake of the argument if a disgruntled user goes on commenting > about Axis2 he would be shooting at the ws pmc. But the WS pmc > consists of many other innocent PMCers that have nothing to do with > Axis2! if we have clear separation then the responsibilities are > clear. > > 3. I've been told that (before my time in Apache) that it is > discouraged to put projects in an umbrella of functionality, say like > in ws* or xml*. Instead Apache has embraced the > related-or-not-related-but-interesting type of project names with > 'projects' and not umbrellas. Just to make it clear does the words > jackrabbit, lucene, synapse, Mina or Lenya make any hint of what the > project actually does ? So i don't see the point of keeping Axis2 > under the umbrella of ws* anymore. if the ws* argument to hold I would > say all other Apache projects that provide the SOAP stack capability > should come under ws* as well (such as CXF) > > 4. I don't suppose there is anyone with a secret (evil ;P) agenda of > becoming the member of two PMC's supporting the split. But as I > pointed out earlier ws has grown out of its bounds and its time we > split things up for the sake of managing the complexity. Who we put as > the chair is a different question and hopefully would be selected the > democratic way (or by just looking at the mail count :D) > > For my final conclusion I am in support of this proposal. > > Ajith > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
