Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > "Will Glass-Husain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Starting a new thread... > >> First, project characteristics. I'd argue that a good project for the >> TLP would have > >> --> developers who are part of the Velocity community (either active >> on the mailing lists, and better yet those who have contributed >> patches or bug reprots) > > Yes. There might also be some discussion whether we will start new > Velocity projects inside the TLP at all. >
I don't see any problem with that, as long as it's not unrelated, like Maven was inside Turbine. >> --> strong or growing community of its own > > +1 > >> --> the integration of Velocity is a key part of the project > > +1 > >> Second... project content... What are some typical kinds of projects >> that might fall under the TLP umbrella, and why? > >> --> A way of making Velocity accessible for new use? (e.g. Texen, >> Anakia, DVSL, a JSP tag library based on Velocity expressions) > > Not sure here. Why? > >> --> Port of Velocity to another platform? (e.g. nVelocity) > > That is the usual Language/Tool clash. If there were a (hypothetical) > Apache .NET TLP, would nVelocity go there or to us? Us. I'd fight against a .NET TLP. Putting that aside, we'd want nVelocity to be in lock-step with us as much as possible, so things like configuration files and templates were portable. > >> --> Web framework closely tied to Velocity (Click, Turbine?) > > Click: yes. Turbine: no. > > Reason: Click is built intimately around Velocity. Turbine just > happens to treat Velocity as a first class citizen but there is no > reason why you couldn't use any other templating solution or JSP with > Turbine. And the templating is just a very small part of Turbine at > all. > >> Not saying all of the above are candidates. But would they fit our >> desired umbrella? > > My € 0.02 :-) > > Best regards > Henning > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
