Sorry for repeating myself: I think we should wait for the 330 and 299 specs to settle, and THEN we can decide what to do. I feel uncomfortable with being promoted from incubator without having the API pretty stable.
Once this point is reached, I look pretty confident that OWB will find a well established place in the community. LieGrue, strub --- On Wed, 9/9/09, Kevan Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Kevan Miller <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Graduation? > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 6:11 PM > > 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 >
