I don't want to get too distracted with this thread, but I think I was
misunderstood. More inline.
Ted Husted wrote:
>
> "Geir Magnusson Jr." wrote:
> > Obviously you think it does enough, Ted, or you wouldn't have written
> > it.
>
> Not really. If Costin's model had gotten the majority vote, I would have
> written that up instead. I'm perfectly capable of writing a proposal
> that I might -1 myself, if it meant many others would +1 it instead. I
> really am trying to find the model which is going to get the most
> support, regardless of whether I would support it myself.
I don't get this - I don't care personally what you are capable of doing
- you are very capable of organizing w/o your personal views
interfering.
My point overall was that structure is a departure from the jakarta
model, not simply a riff on what is already done. The Taglibs model is
a singleton example of something very different : there is a common
thread (JSP taglib repository). All the developers work in the same
space - JSP tags - and it functions as a repository of closely related
things. 'Library' is different - there is no common technology thread,
other than Java, which is kinda weak.
> > Does this model work for Jakarta? I mean, you would be a 'Jakarta
> > player', etc, etc
>
> It works for Taglibs, so we're just following suit and not creating
> anything new.
It's a different kind of project. I don't think they map.
> > If not, why not, and more importantly, where is the boundary? I imagine
> > some of what we propose could be just as 'project-like' as log4j, oro,
> > regex, etc.. and they appear to function just fine as is.
>
> I'm not sure if that's true. Log4j is fine, but I believe people have
> questioned the wisdom of having packages like RegEx, Oro, and others
> just floating around unattached.
I am not familiar with that discussion , but I would imagine that its
centered around the issue of organization of projects, rather than a
need to change the committer & governance model. Again, I am unfamiliar
with that discussion.
geir
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