This does not make sense. For example, no one cares if there is a community around Tiles. That might be nice, but Tiles is sufficiently done. No community is necessary.
On 4/18/06, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/18/06, Phil Zoio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd be happy to pass Strecks on to Struts itself if the community really > > wanted it, but I don't see that as essential to its existence in any > way. > > What we look for is a community forming around the codebase. We don't > just want code, we want people who are committed to maintaining the > code over the long term. Not just one person, but a community of > "likely suspects" who will step and and volunteer if the creator of > the code loses interest. > > Many extensions that people now consider essential, like Tiles and > Validator, started as third-party extensions. Whether we want to add > an extension to the core usually depends on how many people recommend > the extension on the list -AND- whether the people developing the > extension follow the user list. > > This is as true for committers as it is for non-committers. Hubert, > Niall, James Holmes, James Mitchell, Laurie Harper, Don Brown, myself, > and others, all have extensions to Struts that we have distributed > separately. Some of these extension were ultimately added to the > distribution, and others have not been. In the latter case, it's > usually because the committer chooses not to donate the extension. The > Struts Action distribution is already quite large, and we are all > sensitve to "code bloat". > > In the case of Strecks, a similar case would the "EL" tags. At first, > it was a separate subproject, because EL was based on Java 1.3 when we > had set Java 1.2 as the baseline. For Struts Action 1.3, we moved the > baseline, and so EL is now integrated into the JSP Tags. The same > thing could happen here, if a community grows around the codebase, and > the community wanted to be an Apache Struts subproject. (Not everyone > does!) > > -Ted. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it float on its back." ~Dakota Jack~
