I'm going ahead with this work this morning. - Dave
On 9/7/06, Dave Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 >
