Re: Project idea (Hypersonic)

2001-07-28 Thread burtonator
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Duncan Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday, July 26, 2001, at 03:50 PM, burtonator wrote: I might agree with that. But IMO we have a lot of things that are out of scope? Ant? James? Log4J? Regexp? Come on? Don't get me

Re: Project idea (Hypersonic)

2001-07-28 Thread Sam Ruby
Kevin Burton wrote: I think we are just on the classic slippery slope. It will probably get worse before there is uniform acceptance that it exists. Or that it splits. One could easily imagine that a database and related projects merits its own PMC. - Sam Ruby

Scope

2001-07-28 Thread Daniel F. Savarese
I'm a loss to understand the problem. People assert that projects are out of scope yet also assert how much they like them. Is it not better to generate good code that lots of people use than to nitpick about staying in scope? If Jakarta is home to a bunch of projects that people think are

Re: Scope

2001-07-28 Thread Daniel F. Savarese
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sam Ruby writes: Duplication (e.g., multiple templating technologies) doesn't bother me so much as different focus. An RDB is a big endeavor. I'm sorry, I didn't indicate that I wasn't addressing the RDB proposal, but rather the ancillary comments about Ant,

Re: Scope

2001-07-28 Thread Pier P. Fumagalli
Sam Ruby at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another thing to take into consideration is the wishes of the majority of committers of the code base. Particularly existing code bases. If the majority of committers of any project (or even a group of projects collectively) decided that they no longer