---- The public face of xml projects ---- Yes, this is an excellent point - it would be nice to have a much more nicely organized website to help anyone more easily find the ASF software that they might want to use. But I'd really like to discuss this as a separate issue from the corporate organization of our projects - they really don't have to be tied together. We can organize ourselves internally however we want - we just need to pick some sort of categorization or troves or whatever to show a public face with. Then of course, we actually have to implement it on our webserver...
Now while our corporate organization and public categories don't have to match, they do can affect each other if they change how our own communities work together (and within themselves). All of us being under the same xml.apache.org; all of us sharing this general@ list and having a common PMC make us feel like community together; moving subprojects around can sometimes make this community harder to maintain. But I still think we can do the basics of public face stuff separately from PMCs. What needs to happen is getting some concrete proposals, with details, together so we can constructively think about what we want to do. Hopefully, this categorization will use xml and be automated, since that's what all of our projects work on. 8-) I'd also love it if it fit in somehow or live nicely with GUMP, since I see that as a very successful integration project currently running. Once we can agree on a basic plan of what we want, we can then get some volunteers to do the work, and ask on infrastructure@ for how to actually execute. Oh, and bonus points if we can get at least some parts in common with the jakarta folks. (A very sideline issue that belongs on infrastructure@ is better archiving and indexing of our mailing lists too!) ===== - Shane <eof .sig="'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a very scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less'" "Oohayu oyod?!"=gis. /> __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- In case of troubles, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
