--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > In other words: I'll vote +1 if the final
> proposal will explicitely allow
> > > projects to componentize and share their code,
> as Peter proposed (with
> > > the maintainers of the shared component becoming
> library commiters ).
> >
> > You mean something like:
> >
> > + Packages extracted from stable ASF products, and
> refactored by their
> > committers to current library standards, will also
> be accepted, along
> > with the original committers to the package.
>
> Yes.
>
> I would also like to ask for something like: if a
> project is using a
> component, and none of the project commiters are
> commiters for the
> component - the project as a whole should count as a
> commiter (
> i.e. should be able to request a temporary freeze, a
> tag, etc - so a
> "stable"/"predictible" version of the component can
> be included ).
> ( it that's not too much )
>
> Costin
That sounds like a real maintenance nightmare to me.
It also breaks with the standard Jakarta paradigm for
subprojects. Subprojects can organize themselves
however they want, but they are not beholden to
non-committers. If every Jakarta subproject used one
or another component of the lib project (and that's
the idea), it would be anarchy.
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Morgan Delagrange
Britannica.com
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