It's been a couple of days and I haven't seen any -1 votes, so I think we have concensus on this. Anybody else want to chime in?
- Dave On 9/5/06, Allen Gilliland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
+1 -- Allen Dave Johnson wrote: > I don't think we have consensus on this, so I'd like to call a vote. > > Proposal: Migrate non-core plugins and themes to Roller Support project > ---- > We recently decided to ship only a couple of themes and plugins and we > still need to figure out what to do with the themes and plugins that > we don't ship with Roller. > > I'd like to propose that, not only should we remove them from the > release, we should also remove them from Apache SVN. We should remove > them from SVN and move them to the old Roller project at Java.Net and > make them available for download there. Here's why: > > - We've already re-purposed the old Roller project site as the "Roller > Support" site -- to host LGPL components and plugins/themes that > depend on LGPL. > > - The extra themes and plugins aren't essential to the community of > developers maintaining Roller. Ideally, Roller should ship with a > couple really good themes/plugins and the rest should be provided an > maintained by the community of Roller users. > > - By using the "Struts Applications" model, we can encourage more > theme development by the community. Struts team members established a > Sourceforge project to host Struts add-ons and contributors who don't > necessarily have Apache committer status. > > - Themes and plugins can use other-licensed components freely, since > the Roller Support project is not Apache territory. > > Specifics > ---- > Here are the specific themes and plugiuns to be moved. > > Themes to move - all except for: > basic > sotto > brushedmetal > frontpage > > Plugins to move - all except for: > ConvertLineBreaksPlugin > ObfuscateEmailPlugin > TopicTagPlugin > SmileysPlugin > > Votes > ---- > So far Allen is +1 on the idea > Craig Russell agress too > Anil seems to be leaning -1 > > > Please cast your votes. > > - Dave
