Hi Robert. Thank you for the detailed response and links. On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin <robertburrelldon...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Tony Zakula <tonyzak...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Not sure on where the project leaders want to go, > > Projects are community led here at Apache (see eg [1][2][3][4]). If > there's development interest from the community and it's in scope for > the project, then that's a direction the code will move in. > >> but I think being >> able to store messages in different formats to be able to plugin to >> systems would be great. Instead of each person writing their own >> parser, most people would just plugin the larger piece to their system >> and start there. > > +1 > > This vision seems to fit with the work over at Tika [5] and Lucene [6]. > >> I did not see where you specified what you are thinking about for >> summer. Is that a link somewhere yet? > > The mailing lists (see [7] and eg [8]) are the primary tools we use > here at Apache. Stuff only tends to get written down later, if at all. > We've been throwing ideas around on the lists, hoping that people > might pick some of them up and run with them ;-) > > Robert > > [1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html > [2] http://www.apache.org/foundation/getinvolved.html > [3] http://jakarta.apache.org/site/contributing.html > [4] http://www.apache.org/dev/contributors.html > [5] http://tika.apache.org/ > [6] http://lucene.apache.org/ > [7] http://www.apache.org/dev/#mail > [8] http://www.apache.org/dev/contrib-email-tips.html >
I am on a few Apache lists. However, I guess I did not see on this list ideas being tossed about for where to go with Mime4J this summer. Maybe I missed it or the discussion was on a list I am not on presently. I would love to become a contributor to an Apache project if I can make time to do it. If you have a recommendation for me to join a list besides Mime4J, please let me know. Thanks, Tony Z
