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Kip Hampton wrote: | Speaking personally for a moment, the timing for this couldn't | possibly be worse. On the one hand, I'm very excited to be at the end | of the | publishing process for the O'Reilly AxKit book, but, in emerging from | that 2-year ordeal (with a book that I believe the AxKit community can | be proud of) I find that the once-vibrant group that inspired me to | write the thing in the first place have, for all practical purposes, | abandoned ship.
First and foremost - Thank you Kip for bringing us the AxKit book and for placing this wake up call! I do not think the timing for this couldn't be worse. It would have been far worse if this current state of uncertainty about AxKit's future, which I know I am not the only one percieving it, would have continued being undealt with. So, now, before the book is released and before the decision about AxKit being a TLP or not, is surely better than after it.
| Letting the AxKit project fall by the wayside is simply not an option. | In addition to our regular users, we have other OSS community projects | and commercial companies whose development plans require a vital and | energetic AxKit.
True. There will not be a Callisto CMS or XIMS CMS without AxKit, just to name two OS projects.
| I suggest that we take the opportunity that (potentially) becoming a | top-level project provides to take stock, put aside old baggage, and | move AxKit forward with renewed vigor. To that end, I've put together a | first draft proposal for the guidelines and mission that are required | for AxKit as an Apache top-level project. That document can be found | here [1].
IMHO AxKit urgently needs such guidelines and a mission statement, Apache TLP or not. Reading through it, I do not find arguments for substantial corrections. Especially, I like the "Pumpking" approach which promises shorter AxKit development cycles and better ressource partitioning amongst committers.
So, +1 from me non-committer for this draft. Now, let's wait for binding votes.
- --michael
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