On Sep 8, 2009, at 8:11 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote:
-1 Allow me to disagree with you Gurkan, IMHO I think OWN should be a TLP project. I know it is to some extent related to JEE but IMO it defines a generic and extensible model for dependency injection and contextual programming which is not restricted to JEE, so being a sub-project to Geronimo will give the community users the impression that we only support JEE. I think we should follow the model of Tomcat and OpenEJB, which is a separate TLP and being integrable with other ASF projects like Geronimo for example.
Will note that being a sub-project does not prevent OWB from providing the same independent functionality, a unique mailing list, web site, etc.
And for the communit, being a separate TLP will not be affected and we could get more contributers and committers and a big example on that is DBlevins.
That's great. But it does mean, IMO, that the community has to work on growing and becoming more diverse. I'll note that by my tally, so far in 2009, only two committers have committed code to OpenWebBeans. Admittedly, this does not include code patches. But I don't think I could back a TLP proposal without some increased diversity in the community.
Hopefully with the 299 and EE6 spec issues settling down, we'll see an increased interest in OpenWebBeans.
As long as the community is working towards graduation, I'm with you... --kevan
