I'd consider this to be a boundary case. On one hand, it is of course in the interest of anyone to have the project alive, rather than retired. OTOH, while Jonas has contributed some bug reports (4), including patches and has voiced on the MUSE mailing lists from time to time (4 times, exluding this mail), that's not sufficient for me to say "no problem, just make him a committer" without hesitation.
And, of course, he still has the option to continue on SourceForge or something like that. Jochen On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Jonas Buys <jonas_b...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am a Ph.D. student working at the university of Antwerp (Belgium) on > reliability improvement of XML-based web services. For our work, we are > using Apache MUSE which we host on top of Axis2 1.5.1. Some of our students > are also using MUSE for their master thesis. > > We are afraid to see the vote that is currently going on to retire MUSE to > the Apache Attic. By retiring the project, we fear that the consequences > such as a read-only JIRA section may impede further improvements of MUSE. > > For some time now, we have been maintaining an internal MUSE build in which > we have patched open issues/bugs as we encountered them and improved parts of > its implementation, like we recently did for MUSE's default WS-SG > implementation. Furthermore, apart from fixing occasional bugs and/or > limitations, we are currently finishing an RC-status implementation of the > MOWS specification. We would be willing to donate this code to the > foundation (after code cleanup and thorough testing). > > Has it already been decided MUSE is "fin-de-vie"? Or is there still a chance > to revive the project? > > We are looking forward to your reply. > > Sincerely Yours, > -- > Jonas Buys > --------------------------------------- > University of Antwerp > Dept. Mathematics and Computer Science > PATS Research Group > --------------------------------------- > Middelheimlaan 1, Bld G, Off G322 > B-2020 Antwerp > --------------------------------------- > (T) +32 472 365108 > > > > > -- I Am What I Am And That's All What I Yam (Popeye)
