Stefano, Sounds like a great plan!!! Here's my +1. Thanks for all the effort into making this happen.
Thanks, dims --- Stefano Mazzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > People, > > the proposed creation of the "Native XML Database" subproject under > Apache XML has been accepted by many people on this list with no > negative votes. > > This subproject will be seeded with donations from the dbXML.org > community (which will donate their dbXML software to the ASF and move > their development overhere). > > Also, it was proposed to look at the Pears project from the Office of > Research at OCLC > (http://www.oclc.org/research/software/pears/index.shtm) for another > potential seed. > > I was contacted by one of the authors of the Pears project and we > discussed that while some of their algorithms will very likely to be > helpful, the software is inherently text-based and and *not* > structure-based as required by native XML DB solutions. > > In short, Pears overlaps more with Apache Lucene that with dbXML. > > They are willing to contribute the code to us, but this can be postponed > *after* the creation of such project. > > As far as naming goes, the dbXML community proposed the name "Apache > XIndice". Some other names were proposed, but didn't get the acceptance > this name had (and anyway, names are hard to have an absolute consensus > on because of personal taste). > > So, first, I would like to apologize to the dbXML developers for having > wasted so much time in waiting for out processes to finish (delay also > generated by the other concurrent code submission proposals that are > still floating around at once). > > At the end, I volunteer as sponsoring member for this project. > > So, stuff to do from the PMC are: > > 1) create the xml-xindice CVS > 2) create accounts for Kimbro Stalken and Tom Bradford > 3) create the [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail lists (yes, both, because the dbxml > user community is already a large one!) > > The newly created XIndice community will take care of the rest. > > If you have anything against this, say it now. > > Thanks to everybody. > > -- > Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be > able to give birth to a dancing star. > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Friedrich Nietzsche > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > In case of troubles, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ===== Davanum Srinivas - http://jguru.com/dims/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- In case of troubles, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
