Hello My preference is to focus on building a comunity and delivering a tool that adds value to the comunity, so option 3 also gets my vote.
Richard Cole --- On Thu, 19/5/11, Stuart Monteith <stuk...@stoo.me.uk> wrote: > From: Stuart Monteith <stuk...@stoo.me.uk> > Subject: Re: Status and a question > To: kato-s...@incubator.apache.org > Cc: kato-dev@incubator.apache.org > Date: Thursday, 19 May, 2011, 13:47 > Hello Steve, > Thanks for the update, that's helpful. I > prefer option 3. I believe it > is better to develop good technology then to standardize > it, rather than > the other way around. > > If we are unenmcumbered by the JSR, then so much the > better. Apache Kato > was always going to have to be more than just the core > specification for > the APIs, the need for the applications to use the APIs is > not affected > by the presence or otherwise of the JSR. Arguably, the JSR > might be > better if more effort is spent on its applications. > > Regards, > Stuart Monteith > > > On 16/05/11 10:40, Steve Poole wrote: > > Looks like we are finally onto the last mile - one way > or other I should > > have Oracle's final decision in my hands within the > next 8 weeks. That's a > > long time I know but we've waited a year so far. > > > > Here's my question to anyone still listening: If > Oracle say they will not > > pariticipate at all, or not in the next 12 months what > should we do? > > > > For your deliberations you should be aware that I'm > working in the OpenJDK > > space now. Some of our technical limitations > (where we needed Oracle to do > > something for us in the JVM) may be solvable simply by > doing the work > > ourselves (outside Apache) and submitting to > OpenJDK. > > > > Options include : > > > > 1 - Retiring this podling full stop. > > 2 - Move the work to OpenJDK and possibly attempt to > get JSR 326 into JDK8. > > 3 - Defering or dropping the "JSR" part of this > project work and just > > focusing on producing a high quality codebase that > solves peoples problems. > > > > > > Tell me what you think. > > > >
