Hi All! I'm really excited that we've gotten the project off the ground. A huge thanks to Dims for helping guide us through the incubator process and getting us to this point.
With that... I thought I'd throw out a few ideas for next steps and see what people though. 1) Project Guidelines - Before we start dropping code, it would help if we all level set on a set of guidelines for how we want to see the project run. I've seen other projects do this with a stated set of guidelines that are posted publicly. If we do it that way, we have something to refer new contributors to so I'm all for that if there are no objections. If there are other suggestions, please fire away. 2) Project Structure - We need to decide on a structure for the repository. In the past we've talked about having a structure where each of the teams that are contributing code (IBM and HP) could drop their entire code base and have it build/run. I still think that's a good idea. As a next step there, I'm going to be looking into the incubator process website to see if there are any particular constraints wrt project structure, etc. 3) Project Website - We also need to get a project website up and running that discusses a little bit about what we're doing and a wiki for some common working space. Both of these should be available under the incubator resources, but I haven't looked into exactly how we get that setup. Does anyone want to look into that? If not, I'm happy to do so and report back. 4) First Tasks - Once the above is complete, we're basically ready to kick off the project in earnest and start building our runtime. I know the IBM team is itching to get to this point and I'd guess the same is true for the HP team. There was a note that went to the incubator that laid out a little bit of this. I'll resurface that and add some detail. Maybe this is where we can start laying out some of the planning via the wiki. One of the first things that comes to mind will be an evaluation period where we do some comparison of the HP and IBM codebases to see what features we want to bring forth in the common runtime. Anyway... that's what I see for the short term (next day or so) before we dive in. I hope everyone else is excited, this should be a fun project! Cheers, -Nick Nicholas Gallardo WebSphere - REST & WebServices Development [email protected] Phone: 512-286-6258 Building: 903 / 5G-016
