I actually discussed this issue with Noel Bergman (VP Incubator) at ApacheCon. >From his point of view, having a "release" of Graffito packaged with J2 M4 is fine as long as it helps build the community around Graffito and help the J2 and Graffito teams work together.
So no issue there :) Having a standalone Graffito release would still require to go through the usual Incubator release process. Christophe Lombart wrote: > Sorry I don't know - Raphael ? I'm going to check on the Incubating site. > > Christophe > > 2005/8/24, Randy Watler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>Christophe/Raphael, >> >>There is some concern on the J2 dev team about the incubator status of >>Graffito as far as inclusion into a M4 J2 release. I am just opening up >>the topic here in hopes that either of you can assure the J2 team that >>we can release J2 with a component in incubator status and/or help us >>determine what we need to do ASF wise to make it happen. >> >>Thanks in advance for any help on this and future development questions, >> >>Randy >> >>Christophe Lombart wrote: >> >> >>>Hi Randy, >>> >>>Managing PSML into Graffito will be great. Count on me each time you >>>need more info on Graffito. Let me know when you start this work, we >>>can exchange some info in order to work faster. >>> >>>Christophe >>> >>> >>>2005/8/24, Randy Watler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>> >>> >>>>Graffito Dev Team, >>>> >>>>For those that do not recognize me, I am a committer on the J2 portal team. >>>> >>>>Although I have been threatening to do this for some time, I am finally >>>>getting started on the integration of Graffito into J2 as a PageManager >>>>component. The intent is to store the PSML that currently resides in the >>>>file system in Graffito as XML documents. We will also want to leverage >>>>many of Graffito's features in the J2 implementation, including security >>>>and modification notification/timestamps. >>>> >>>>There are new patches to the J2 svn HEAD version related to Connection >>>>management, (see JS2-326), that should allow us to update the J2 >>>>deployment past the M3 support currently in place. >>>> >>>>My personal goal is to commit this optional component into J2 for M4. >>>> >>>>Of course, many thanks for developing, managing, and promoting Graffito. >>>> >>>>Randy Watler >>>> -- Raphaël Luta - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache Portals - Enterprise Portal in Java http://portals.apache.org/
