Amila, Why do you think Synapse went TLP?
thanks, dims On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Ajith Ranabahu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > See my comments inline. > > On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Amila Suriarachchi > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> hi, >> >> By going through all these discussions what I can think of is that going for >> TLP neither make it better nor worse. >> >>> Ok why do you want to move Axiom out from Axis2 , because it has a big >>> advantage when it is there in WS than in Axis2. >> >> yes. The advantage here is that they have separate svn and they can have >> independent releases. Axis2 can depends on particular Axiom Version while >> people developing Axiom. or Rampart/Sandesha can use a pirticular >> Axis2 version (if need) and can have independent releases. >> >> So in this scene WS project has broken things into separate manageable >> components with the time. Of course this has happened generally with the >> time and may happen in future as well. >> >> What is the big management advantage we get moving them to TLPs? > > Clarification here. There is not going to be axiom.apache.org or > rampart.apache.org. Only Axis2 is going to move to a TLP and directly > related sub projects will be under that as subprojects. > > >> I agree that there are a lot of jiras and incomplete web sits. The reason >> for this is lack of time committees getting to work on these project due to >> various personal reasons. So I think this is a different issue which can not >> be addressed by going for TLP. >> >> For an example both Ajith and Chinthaka were very active committers in this >> project. But now they only participate in discussions. Can we expect any >> change after going TLP? Lets say Deepal going to fix 50 issues after going >> TLP, why he can not do it now? (Here I have nothing make personal I try to >> explain what I want to say) > > > True - As I have mentioned numerous times earlier there is not going > to be any magic that solves > our problems when Axis2 is moved to TLP. Instead we get a focused > commiterbase and a PMC. When we attract > committers we get to them to a more focused project. There is not > going to be anything new happening > with the current committers. instead we spare the confusion to all the > newbies. >> >> >>> >>> > >>> > Anyway, why I don't agree is I don't see a problem with the current >>> > way. Even if there is a problem, I still don't see how things will be >>> > better if we go to multiple TLPs. >>> My concern is , Axis2 does not get what it is supposed to get. It is >>> just stay inside something called WS. While some other Web service >>> project acting as TLP. >> >> Well, are you saying that being a TLP a prestigious status? Of course this >> is a personal thing and I am not thinking like that. If so that is a >> different concern. > > There is a sense of independence and an expanded state of visibility > in being a TLP. Why do you > think the new projects graduating from incubator want to go TLP > directly rather than hanging around as > subprojects of an umbrella ? why is it that we see most of the > donated projects (say hadoop and lucene from Yahoo or > xmlbeans from BEA) becoming TLP's rather than settling down as > subprojects ? IMHO the expanded visibility > gives better opportunities to market themselves and also help them > increase their focused commiterbase. > >> >> >> thanks, >> Amila. >>> > > > > > -- > Ajith Ranabahu > > Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its > creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain > too little falls into lazy habits of thinking - Albert Einstein > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Davanum Srinivas :: http://davanum.wordpress.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
