RE: Gump - where are you ?

[Sam Ruby]

Stephen McConnell wrote:
>
> Seems we have gump problems and the gump file seems to have been
> moved out of Excalibur root - does anyone know where it is and who
> has karma. Roy, there is a rumour that your physically representative
> of the gump community - any info here - can we get the gump
> descriptor for excalibur back into Excalibur root?

Further background: the gump files were originally developed as a proposal in alexandria. In response to user requests, I added support for projects to move such descriptions out to their own repositories. The avalon ones were moved out, presumably in the hopes that they would obtain a greater sense of ownership and be more actively maintained in their new location.

This did not prove to be the case. All that occurred was that the people who were actually interested in maintaining these descriptors no longer had access.

I was pleased to see these descriptors moved back.

Now let me describe how the community model for gump works. If you are capable of doing a cvs checkout, building the "gen" target of the project (a process that takes approximately 30 seconds, and only requires Ant and a JAXP 1.1 compliant parser), are a committer on an Apache project, and express an interest in maintaining one or more descriptors, then you are voted in.

More information can be found at: http://jakarta.apache.org/gump/usage.html .

Note: the reason for the "ability to build the gen target" is that we were receiving patches that weren't even well formed XML.

- Sam Ruby


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