I took a look at this package and found a lot of potentially valuable material for Geronimo users. It contains source code for a collection of command line utils and eclipse plugins, several unit test cases, build scripts in good working order, and good documentation.
The project is not designed to run in the Geronimo server, so it would not be a good candidate for a Geronimo plugin. Instead I thought at first that its eclipse plugins could be merged with Geronimo's devtool subproject and the command line utils could be merged into geronimo's bin/ directory alongside the deployment and startup scripts. But then I realized that the command line utils actually have dependencies on eclipse in one way or another. So it seems that the entire package would more likely fit into Geronimo's devtools subproject. I wonder what Sachin thinks about that... :-) A quick "wc -l" counted almost 10 KLOC, and I noticed several IBM copyrights, package names, etc in the src which I suppose the incubation process would address. I don't know enough about that process to comment on whether or not its strictly necessary. But if an ASF member wants to champion this entry through that process then I can help provide technical feedback from a Geronimo perspective. One thing that incubation might help address is how much community support will be required to keep the package useful and up to date since the material it processes (Geronimo and JBoss deployment plans) tends to change with almost every release. Best wishes, Paul On 1/23/07, Filip Hanik - Dev Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So far we have received a few positive comments, no negative and no vetos. So are we ok with this donation and ready to move forward, possible into incubation? Filip Kevan Miller wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Alex Karasulu wrote: > >> +1 on the CCLA's with a patch submission. If it's a considerable >> piece of code perhaps a software grant may be in order. >> >> There is no reason why something this small should incubate. > > It seems to match the incubator guidelines for code donations pretty > well. You may disagree with these guidelines, but the incubation > process for code donations (which are being accepted by an existing > project) seems lightweight enough... I don't see why we shouldn't > follow it... It's 2 days of waiting + some extra paper work collecting > info that we should probably have anyway... > > --kevan > > > > > --No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.13/632 - Release Date: > 1/16/2007 4:36 PM > >
