I have some real basic questions: 1. Why is it better to be a top level Apache project rather than part of Jakarta.
2. What are the requirements for becoming a top level project? Any URLs/info is appreciated. David --- "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting James Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: > > > > <snip/> > > > > > If/when Struts becomes a TLP, I'm going to recommend that we do > exactly > > what > > > Ant, James, and Maven (for example) did: > > > > > > * Maintain a link on the Jakarta home page under "Related" > > > > > > * Install a webserver redirect from > <http://jakarta.apache.org/struts> > > > to <http://struts.apache.org>. > > > > Is there anything holding us back from going TLP? > > > > I seem to remember only a few brief discussions on the dev list....and > > that was quite a ways back. > > > > Presuming a positive vote from the committers, we'd have to make a > formal > proposal to the ASF Board (like the Ant, Maven, ... communities did, so > we can > use their proposals as a sample) and get it accepted. Included in the > proposal > would be things like who the PMC members would be, and who we'd suggest > as the > PMC chairperson (because this person becomes an ASF officer, it has to > be > appointed by the board). > > The largest issue around preparing the proposal is likely to be a > definition of > what the scope of the project will be. > > > James Mitchell > > Craig > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
