Craig R. McClanahan wrote: > I'd like to propose Eddie Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> as a committer on the > Struts project.
+1 [Vote/Patches/Granularity/Linux how do they do it/Alternate Release] [Vote] I believe this project can benefit from a more timely application of patches. (I am currently waiting for come commons patches to be applied and know how frustrating it is to wait.) Eddie is an individual that at this point in his life, has demonstrated a willingness to devote a --good-- chunk of his time to helping others, and creating patches. [Granularity and the Gauntlet] Building: There are bricks and mortar, each are needed to build a building. Struts: We need timely thoughtful patches and major contributions. [Linux how do they do it ?] Maybe this was already answered. Struts has a Monolithic distribution ruled by a Meritocracy(Small group who hae won right on Merit). Linux has a hierarchy ruled by Monarchy approach. The lead branch which is watched over by Linus Torvalds, he has the ultimate say so about what goes in. Then there are the Maintenance release 2.5, 2.4, 2.2 etc. Each has a release manager(Appointed by Linus) who is independent to make decisions about their branch. The recent case where the 2.5 Kernel people (Linus) went with an alternate VM system, and the 2.4 people didn't (Alan Cox of Red Hat) decided the new VM wasn't stable enough. http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1436/byt20011024s0002/1029_moshe.html Ultimately, each patch needs to prove it's merit. Then each branch like 2.4 has multiple branches 2.4.x-ac 2.4-dj etc... Each gets a chance to be tried out on a wide basis. And yes it is can be chaotic when merging branches. http://users.edpnet.be/moritz/gpl/gpl.html [Alternate Releases] Yes maybe there should be an experimental release branch of struts, on source forge or other web site. I am not volunteering. It would give a wide number of people a chance to experiment on a wide basis to see what works and what doesn't. There would be no guarantee that any or all changes would be incorportaed. Then users could lobby to have it included into Jakarta struts on merit. After all that is the original charter struts was founded on, as to why there should been another MVC engine besides Turbine at Jakarta. -Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
