+1, with other changes people have mentioned. I hope that we can promote some other sandbox components too over the next few months. Stephen
----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Pugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Commons-Dev (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 10:04 AM Subject: [VOTE] Promote Configuration to Commons Proper > Configuration exhibits all of the qualities of a component that should be in > Commons proper: > - It's small and focused. > - It's API is well defined > - It has a group of existing Jakarta committers providing code, ideas, and > support. > - It has good unit test coverage. It has also been tested in real world > database applications. > - It has automated nightly builds, website, and Maven all working > - It has incubated in the sandbox for long enough to become stable > > Configuration is a mature component that should move to Commons proper so it > can be released to the public. Here's my +1. > > The website has additional information: > http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/configuration/index.html > > Here's the component proposal for reference: > (0) Rationale > > Configuration is a project to provide a generic Configuration interface and > allow the source of the values to vary. It provides easy typed access to > single, as well as lists of configuration values based on a 'key'. > > (1) Scope of the Package > > This proposal is to create a package of Java utility classes for > implementing a simple Configuration object. Configuration will remain > environment agnostic, focusing on just providing Configuration values. It > does not provide any time of IoC style configuration of objects. > > (1.5) Interaction With Other Packages > > Configuration relies only on standard Java 1.3 (or later) APIs for > production deployment. It utilizes the JUnit testing framework for > developing and executing unit tests, but this is of interest only to > developers of the component. It is built using Maven. > > No external configuration files are utilized. > > (2) Initial Source of the Package > > This code has been in Sandbox for over a year, and was originally originally > in the Apache JServ project, then in Turbine, then in Velocity, and finally > ended up in the sandbox. > > The proposed package name for the new component is > <code>org.apache.commons.configuration</code>. > > (3) Required Jakarta-Commons Resources > > CVS Repository - New directory dbutils in the jakarta-commons CVS > repository. > > Mailing List - Discussions will take place on the general > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. To help list subscribers > identify messages of interest, it is suggested that the message subject of > messages about this component be prefixed with [configuration]. > > Issue Tracking - Currently scarab on Nagoya is being used > (http://nagoya.apache.org/scarab/servlet/scarab/) however maybe this should > be moved to BugZilla? > > > (4) Initial Committers > > The initial committers on the DBUtils component shall be: > Eric Pugh > Henning P. Schmiedehausen > Martin Poeschl > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
