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.
I completely agree that it makes good sense for a project to accept the community along with the code.
Every project is free to take the code and do what they want with it (within the confines of the Apache license, of course). So if a project finds any Yoko code interesting or useful, they are more than welcome to take it and use it for their own purposes. It certainly is nice and thoughtful for other projects to ask and coordinate with the Yoko committers, but it is certainly not required, IMHO.
So, the issue here is what other projects would benefit most from accepting Yoko code and are willing to take on the task of maintaining and improving the code?
Here is where it makes good sense to accept the community along with the code, as the existing Yoko committers would hopefully continue to work on the codebase, when moved to another project.
The real question then is: are the Yoko developers willing to continue contributing to Yoko code even if it was moved to another project?
Personally, I really don't have any strong feelings about the name of the project the code I contribute to is part of. My involment in the Yoko project focused on the tooling module. I worked primarily on the idl2wsdl tool, and I would like to continue maintaining and enhancing it, no matter what project it ends up in.
Cheers, - Matteo ---------------------------- IONA Technologies PLC (registered in Ireland) Registered Number: 171387 Registered Address: The IONA Building, Shelbourne Road, Dublin 4, Ireland
