I was actually just going to suggest that they simply be separate artifacts, not anything as involved as the "sub-projects" under jakarta and the like.
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Santiago Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El sáb, 10-05-2008 a las 12:50 +0200, Chris Chabot escribió: > > Note that we pinged the list a few times with the question if we are > > able to have sub-projects right now while being in incubation, but > > haven't heard back from our mentors yet. > > I don't think there are hard rules. The main issue is one of oversight. > There used to be a lot of discussions about subprojects and TLP (Top > Level Projects) at Apache, mostly due to the fact that jakarta, and also > xml, were big "umbrella" projects with lots of unrelated subprojects > (the only commonality was java/xml resp.) and this fact was hampering > oversight by the board of what was going on. > > Nowadays the only big umbrella project remaining is the incubator, and > it is designed so as to have high visibility of podlings. > > I'd say that, while subprojects/submodules are well scoped and have the > same core set of committers, they won't pose big trouble. Now, if the > number of common committers starts to diminish it will start to be > troublesome, and possibly a concern for graduation. > > Now, I don't really have big experience at the incubator and I'm > speaking out of whatever common sense I have. I'd love to know if there > are more specific "hard" rules. > > Regards > Santiago > > > > > For now, pending feedback on this, i've spun off the php db driven > > sample container to its own code.google.com project, I'm not sure if > > that would be the right thing to do with the html/xml driven > > samplecontainer :) > > > > -- Chris > > > > On May 10, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Kevin Brown wrote: > > > > > It seems like a good thing to have as a sub project, much like > > > the various DB-driven implementations that have been floating around. > > > Thoughts? > > > -- > Santiago Gala > http://memojo.com/~sgala/blog/ <http://memojo.com/%7Esgala/blog/> > >
