Remy Maucherat wrote:
> Since the code already exists as part of another ASF project, and since it
> has already been approved according to the ASF rules, I don't see why it
> should be considered "experimental" here, and subject to additional review /
> approval. If the component is bad, nobody will use it, and that's it.
> Sharing code should be as painless as possible, or nobody (including me)
> will share code.
It's not subject to additional review, Remy. We're just want to state
clearly that some subproject somewhere has to release it to the public.
> For components which were outside the Jakarta project, they should indeed be
> subject to approval (but I thought the original mission of commons was to
> share code between the Jakarta projects).
We're talking about the shared CVS here, which is only available to
Jakarta committers (every Jakarta committer).
The last 47 messages have been about adding exactly this sentence to
guideline #20:
"The sponsoring subproject will distribute the code or documentation
along with the rest of their codebase."
-Ted.
