On 31/05/2011 16:13, Christian Grobmeier wrote:
I'm more than pleased to tell you my little story :) When I started my
Lab, I just joined the Cocoon PMC, I was a fresh Apache committer, and
didn't have many contacts here at ASF, so the only chance I had to
give Amber enough visibility and catch someone else's interest, to
build a community around it, was via Lab. And it worked because it
became an Incubator, without looking for initial developers, but they
asked me if I was interested on it.
Thanks for that insight. This is something that labs gives but not an
external hosting location. Not even apache-extras at this point.
So, it would be a shame to kill off labs if we didn't replace it with this
in some way.
Please answer me two questions:
1) I would like to create a Struts2 plugin. It is probably just one or
two classes and if the Struts people like it, it will probably not
stay there for too long. Is this a case for the incubator?
This sounds like a case for the struts project. If they don't want it
then apache-extras.org is the right home for it (perhaps as a Struts PMC
sponsored struts-plugins project).
2) If the Struts people don't like it, it might happen that I create a
jar package of it and put it for download on my homepage. No Apache
naming in it, except the package names. Is it ok or not?
Well it's open source so you can do that, yes. But why would you?
If you want to make a release for people to use it then I imagine you
would want them to get the source and maybe even fix a bug. In which
case you can't do that in a lab. So again, apache-extras.org is the
right home.
If the answer to 1) is yes, I was afraid before all the voting before
the lab creation.
If the answer to 2) is yes, then I like Labs much more then before.
Labs is a place for experimentation, not a place for developing software
that is intended to be used. Your use case sounds more like software for
use than an experiment.
Ross
Cheers
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