On Wednesday, January 9, 2002, at 11:36 PM, Ted Husted wrote: <snip>
> My feeling is that we should try and create as few new wheels as > possible. agreed. > The language in Martin's proposal is straight from the Jakarta > guidelines for approving a release. > > So, I'd say if this type of vote is good enough for release code from a > subproject, it should be good enough to accept code into the Commons. my feeling is that accepting a component into the commons places an obligation (of some kind) on the existing committers to provide support. without that obligation we really are going to get into a sourceforge situation whereby orphaned projects are left to rot when their creators get bored. poor quality, badly maintained code in the commons will reflect badly on us all. therefore, IMHO accepting a new component is more important than a subproject release. having said that, i'd like to repeat that i think that martin's proposal is a definite improvement. - robert -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
