Niclas Hedhman wrote:
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:15 PM, David Bosschaert
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Jay,
Lin is right that all of the specs coming out of the EEG will ultimately end
up in the OSGi Compendium, however there will be an additional OSGi 4.2
Enterprise Specification which has a focus on the enterprise domain and will
contain a number of Enterprise-focused specifications. This Enterprise Spec
will be available earlier than the next full compendium. The intention is to
have it ready by Q1 2010 - the EEG is currently working on this.
Perhaps David could poke around the OSGi Alliance and see if Apache
Software Foundation could become a "special member" (i.e. no yearly
fee) since we are now becoming heavily vested in OSGi technology? I
imagine this being structured similar to our JCP and W3C membership,
where individuals can get access to restricted information via a
system of NDAs. Compare with JEE TCK access for Geronimo committers.
Cheers
I think the main issue here is whether the ASF can comply with the T&Cs
of being a full OSGi Alliance member, specifically the T&Cs around the
IP policies. While in theory, the OSGi Alliance might consider a fee
waiver, I don't expect them to make T&C exceptions for anyone, ASF included.
Bill
