Hell ya. We can start this right away. Great idea, Geir. "Now why didn't I think of that?" :-)
Cheers, -g p.s. note that Jakarta acting as a Java-based codebase federation is a separate matter; the J PMC can deal with that... On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 09:12:34PM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > Why don't the various commons groups in the ASF just have the AC PMC > add things on the A-C site and 'federate' that way? The respective > PMCs would still do what they do - oversee the projects - and the AC > PMC can maintain the website. > > geir > > > On Dec 23, 2003, at 4:44 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > > Mark R. Diggory wrote: > > > >> I personally think that the idea of "Commons" should become more > >> "Virtual" and "Evolutionary" in nature. > > > >> if theres ever the case that "xml commons" and "jakarta commons" > >> could become a shared community, it would produce the following > >> benefits > > > > Mark, what you are saying is basically supporting the notion of > > decoupling > > web presence from project oversight, and supporting the idea of > > federation > > instead of containment. > > > > A PMC oversees the code, resources, community for a project. There is > > nothing that prevents them from federating to produce portals as you > > describe. I have suggested it recently as one good approach. > > > > Without going into details right now comparing various plans, let me > > note > > that Federation is one approach being discussed on Jakarta General as > > part > > of a larger reorganization discussion. > > > > --- Noel > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > Geir Magnusson Jr 203-247-1713(m) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
