On Sep 5, 2007, at 7:03 AM, Matt Hogstrom wrote:
Regardless of how we move the code I would think that committers on
Yoko should join the appropriate projects after a project chooses
to accept the code. It makes little sense to me to accept the code
and not the community since the community has already established
their karma as Apache committers and are most familiar with the
code base. I would expect the receiving project to vote on the
donation and committers but since we operate in a world of trust
and collaboration I wouldn't see any benefit to moving code without
the community; to me that would be a non-starter.
1. Move Yoko in its entirety to another TLP and make it a sub-
project. The TLP PMC would provide the oversight and it would no
longer be in incubator.
2. Break Yoko up into two components which would be the core ORB
with the IDLJ compiler and the JAX-WS bindings work.
Both proposals have pluses and minuses. Here is my thinking in no
particular order.
The two suggested locations for Yoko have been Harmony and Geronimo
for the core ORB. If I step back and look at how other JDKs are
organized they ship the ORB as part of the JDK and provide a
generic ORB. With that in mind it seems to make sense move the
core ORB and IDLJ to Harmony. Geronimo would be able to pick up
the ORB as a separate package (or I would hope that it would be
able to in order to preserve what we've done historically.)
The ORBs that are shipped with Sun's JVM is severely hamstrung. I
would not use that precedent to move the ORB to Harmony.
Also, it is my understanding that the WebServices bindings should
be part of Java 6 and as such it would seem to make sense that they
live in Harmony as well. That said, the expertise in this area is
mostly in CXF. I'm not sure who the committers are on this portion
of Yoko so it would be great to gather some input from those folks
as well.
I'll Ping Tim Ellison at Harmony since he posted earlier. I'm not
sure if he's actively looking at this list or not.
Other thoughts?
I think that Yoko would be better suited in Geronimo where we are
more server oriented. I think that given the plugable nature of the
ORB, the CXF bindings could probably move to CXF.
Regards,
Alan
