Sounds like a good approach to me. I'm definitely +1 and hope to have some cycles to help with the unit tests.
On 6/30/05, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/27/05, Stefan Rufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I dare to come back to the "Creating a CSV component" thread where the > > discussion has starved a bit during the last weeks: > > > > > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jakarta-commons-dev/200506.mbox/[EMAIL > > PROTECTED] > > > > Summary: > > > > So far I've found the following oppinions concerning "CSV as an own > > Jakarta Commons component": > > > > Henri Yandell +1 > > Kevin Gessner -1 (rather inlcude in [lang] or [io]) > > Jeremias Maerki +1 > > Steven Caswell +1 > > Thorsten Curdt +1 > > > > Henri presented different code offerings a CSV component can be based on > > (Netcetera, OSJava). There were no comments about this. > > > > Any more input? > > I had to back off to focus on the board report (for a week), and have > spent the last week digging into Infrastructure issues (SVN > migrations). > > Getting back on csv, the Netcetera code seems to clearly be the best choice. > > Something which has been nibbling away at my mind for the last week is > that, for a basic csv component, it's more than complete and I'm not > sure we would immediately have a direction to want to add lots of > features, so it seems to me that this is a case where Commons should > be going through the Incubator and not just adding the code in. > > Netcetera have a couple of ASF committers already, whom I think have > been volunteered to be initial committers (need to ask them at some > point :) ), and we've enough interest in Commons that I think getting > through the Incubator will be no problem, but using the Incubator > would be a good education for the Commons community; we've not had a > lot to do with it so far. > > So my proposal is that we submit Netcetera's CSV library to the ASF > Incubator, with Jakarta (more correctly Jakarta Commons) acting as the > sponsoring project. (I'd be happy to volunteer to be mentor the > project). While in the Incubator we would add more unit tests on the > code side, and make sure legal issues are comfortably handled. > > Check http://incubator.apache.org/ out for more info. > > What do you all think? > > Hen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Steven Caswell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take back the web - http://www.mozilla.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
