sounds like David's starting down the sames road (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-39). IMO it's been demonstrated that using the committers repository for development doesn't work in the long run. i think we should consider inviting him to use a directory in RAT - at least that way, there's a complete project history and we might get some cross feritilisation of ideas.
i had a good think and think i understand where he's going. i'm totally unbothered about choice of language but there's really only space for one approach to meta-data. it would therefore be better to work together. opinions? - robert
