Not a lot of chatter on this, eh? I'll just reiterate that I think it makes the most sense to just do the least surprising thing and adopt "proper" along with commons.
Quoting Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 17:16:05 -0500, Rahul P Akolkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Martin Cooper wrote: > > > > > Perhaps we can brainstorm on names for a bit, and see if anyone can come > > > > > up with something better. > > > > Kris Schneider wrote: > > > > > Wouldn't you like to be a proper too... > > > > Just brainstorming: > > > > core reminds me of a core dump and proper makes me feel like its improper > > for me to be in the sandbox :) > > > > Why not use the same nomenclature as the left-side menu on our web home? > > > > http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/ > > > > jakarta/ > > taglibs/ > > supported/ > > ... > > sandbox/ > > ... > > > > Maybe even have siblings toolext and deprecated (siblings of supported). > > The problem with this is that, in reality, individual taglibs can move > back and forth between supported and unsupported, depending upon > committer interest in them. The term 'supported' on the web site is > really a misnomer. There are several taglibs listed in the 'supported' > section of the web site that really aren't supported in any real way. > And then there's JSTL, which is listed separately on the web site, but > is probably the best supported of all. > > The goal here is simply to reproduce the current two CVS repo > directories under a single 'taglibs' root in SVN. I don't want to get > into trying to invent new categories for the various pieces of code > that we have. (If we really want to recategorise, let's just get the > migration done first; moving things around is easy once we're using > SVN.) > > In Commons, the distinction between Proper and Sandbox is that > components in Proper have demonstrated that a community has developed > around them, and that they are ready, or nearly ready, for an official > release. Components that are still in their infancy, in terms of > either or both of community or code, live in the Sandbox. > > To be honest, Taglibs seems somewhat dysfunctional when it comes to > community and to the distinction between "proper" and sandbox. But > that's a discussion for another day. ;-) Let's just pick a name for > the "proper" part of it, and get the migration to Subversion under our > belt. > > -- > Martin Cooper > > > > Have a good 2005! > > > > -Rahul -- Kris Schneider <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D.O.Tech <http://www.dotech.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
