On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Glen Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey dims, all: > > Davanum Srinivas wrote: >> >> There was a WS PMC thread which has not yet shown up here.... >> >> So, WDYT? Could we spin off Axis2 and related projects into a separate >> TLP? Pros / Cons / Thoughts welcome. > > I'm +1 to the idea. Here's what I sent to the PMC after this idea came up > as a result of our last board report: > > ---- > > From my POV, it's a bit of a tossup. On the one hand, there are > clearly a lot of sub-projects under the WS umbrella, and it would make > for a lot less complexity if we split some of them out. On the other, > there is a fairly large cluster of the projects that really do need to > maintain a pretty tight coupling, so having a single place they can all > exchange information is kind of nice too. > > I think we can achieve both goals with something like this: > > * Axis2 - becomes a TLP for both Java and C versions, with > Axis2-specific components underneath as subprojects. So Rampart, > Sandesha, Savan, Kandula.... > > * Axis1 basically gets retired, with questions still answerable on > axis-dev/user. > > * There are a few common libraries (used both inside and outside Axis2) > like Axiom and WSS4J that still need a place to live, not to mention the > other projects like Scout, JAX-RPC, and JUDDI. I'd suggest those stay > in WS for now, but perhaps get rid of the "commons" idea and upline > Axiom, Neethi, etc. to subprojects instead of "sub-subprojects". :) > > ---- > > What do people think of that layout?
In general, I'm for this proposal and the layout. Just not sure about retiring Axis1 since I think there are still people out there using it (even though not much new development or maintenance is happening). But as Dims suggested we can vote on that issue separately. Jarek --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
