On 11/25/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin Cooper wrote: > > Yes and no. I do see a place for JavaScript at the ASF, and I do believe > > we should have a forum - and a community - around that. > > Kind of a tangent from my original post, but is there any chance of > setting up a simple Javascript mailing list under the ASF? Or does it > need to be tied to a particular project? Such a list I think would get > quite a bit of traffic, certainly it would be a more on-topic place to > post many of the questions we currently see on the Struts and Tomcat > mailing lists (and I'm sure others). And this might serve as a good > meeting place to discuss further ideas, as you alluded to later on in > your reply.
This is one of the topics I'd like to discuss at an ApacheCon BOF. AFAIK, language-specific lists (as opposed to project-specific ones) have been discouraged in the past, so we need to think through what it is that we want to accomplish. > However, when it comes to the fundamentals, IMHO, the Dojo toolkit has > > an existing and thriving community; they are pulling together the best > > parts of existing toolkits; and they have a quorum of some of the very > > smartest JavaScript developers anywhere. I really, really don't want to > > see the ASF go off and (try to) duplicate all of the awesome work > > they've done just so that it's under the ASF umbrella. > > I for one would agree, if it's duplication of effort simply for the goal > of having something comperable under the ASF umbrella, I wouldn't think > that a good idea. But I do think a client-side Digester, even if only a > small subset of the current Digester, is significantly different enough > from Dojo (as far as I can see at the moment) and other things that I am > aware of, that it might be worth doing. > > I just noticed your a Dojo committer Martin... I wasn't aware of that. Technically, yes, but that's more history than reality. To date, I haven't actually committed anything. ;-) Mostly, I've just helped them with some of the behind-the-scenes stuff. -- Martin Cooper Frank >
