I have a couple of questions for Geronimo's PMC:
1) What is the official Geronimo decision regarding a clean-room implementation of JavaMail's API? Are we happy to invest the time in (a) building, and (b) maintaining such a product to avoid licensing issues with (re)distribution of Sun's API reference code? As well as licensing, ease-of-use should come into consideration as well; a J2EE server that requires you to download extra components whilst installing may not be seen as user-friendly as one that comes all-in.
2) On Saturday, Jason Dillon proposed a [Vote] to allow me commit rights to the repository [1]. (I'm guessing that this means a +1 :-). However, the only person who responded was Greg Wilkins [2] who abstained from that vote, given that I am not an existing ASF member. Did people not respond to the [Vote] on the grounds that it got buried in all the weekend's mail, or is such a non-response automatically counted as an abstention? And how long a timescale is it before the [Vote] is considered closed (and thus everyone who has not yet responded is automatically abstained)? FWIW I have signed the ASF2 agreement, but failed succesfully to scan it since the fax number rang out when I called it. (I have it as a PDF anyway, so can always e-mail it if that is acceptable).
I hope that you can answer these questions and give me guidance regarding the recent [JavaMail] discussions regarding whether to continue re-implementing the API or to junk it in favour of using the binary build downloaded from Sun.
Thanks,
Alex.
[1] http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listId=140&msgNo=1775 [2] http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listId=140&msgNo=1851
