-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 +1 Implement the Yoko ORB subproject in Geronimo as proposed above.
Rick McGuire wrote: > The discussion thread has been out there long enough for comment, and > those who have responded appear positive about the prospect. I think > it's time to put this to a vote. The full proposal from Matt Hogstrom > is attached at the end, but the basic proposal we're voting on > implementing in Geronimo is: > > 1) Accept the Yoko core modules (corba spec, corba core implemenation, > rmi spec and rmi implementation) as a subproject of Geronimo. > 2) The Yoko subproject will be maintained as a stand-alone component so > it can be used by Harmony as well as Geronimo. > 3) Lars Kuhn, Alexey Petrenko, and Darren Middleman be invited to join > the Geronimo project as commiters so that they may continue contributing > to the Yoko ORB. > > This is a single vote on the entire proposal (accepting the code and > inviting the commiters). > > [ ] +1 Implement the Yoko ORB subproject in Geronimo as proposed above. > [ ] 0 No opinion > [ ] -1 Do not implement the Yoko subproject as proposed. > Only PMC member's votes are binding, but we invite anybody in the > community to speak up and vote on this. > > Since the vote runs over the weekend, I'll conclude it at 10::00 Eastern > time on Monday. > > Rick > > Matt's full proposal presented to the Yoko project: > > The members of project yoko have been considering the future of Yoko as > a project. There have been several milestones delivered and the project > is used by other ASF projects. The project is not as active as other > ASF projects and it makes sense to move the code from Yoko to other > projects. The Yoko team has the following proposal for your consideration. > > Proposed Code Donation from Project Yoko to Apache CXF and Apache Geronimo > > The Yoko community has been successful in delivering several milestones > of the ORB implementation while in the Apache Incubator. These > milestones are used by other Apache projects (namely Geronimo and > Harmony) to support their releases. The WebServices bindings are > dependent on CXF. The Yoko community has decided that the Yoko project > does not have quite the momentum to carry itself as an independent > project but has sufficient value for other projects for them to consider > receiving the code and committers for that code-base as sub-projects. > Since the code under consideration is used by Apache Geronimo, Apache > CXF and Apache Harmony the movement of the code should continue to allow > for independent releases so the code can be easily shared with other > dependent projects. > > The proposed division is: > > yoko-spec-corba - this is the org.omg interface classes. > rmi-spec - this is the javax.rmi spec implementation > core - This is the actual ORB implementation. > rmi-impl - This is the implementation of the RMIIIOP support. > > These modules are also used by Harmony. > > In addition to the code we propose that the following committers in > Apache Yoko be accepted as committers in Apache Geronimo given their > demonstration of delivering code, creating releases and functioning as a > community. Those noted with asterisks are already Geronimo committers. > > Continued involvement with the core: > > Rick McGuire * > David Jencks * > Alan Cabrera * > Lars Kuhne > Alexey Petrenko > Darren Middleman > > The remainder of the modules in Yoko are part of the webservices support > and are independent of the underlying ORB implementation. > > api -- interface classes used for the web services support. > bindings -- code to implement the CORBA-Web services bindings. > tools -- tools for generation WSDL and IDL for the bindings > maven-plugin -- some maven plugins that can use the tools for generating > binding-related build artifacts. None of the maven-plugin code is used > by the ORB. > > There is also a distribution directory with some sample applications. > One set of samples demonstrates using the core ORB, the other set is for > WebServices. We recommend that the distribution directory should move > to Apache CXF as the webservices examples use the orb samples to bind > them as web services. Since Apache Geronimo's only use of CORBA is for > exporting EJBs, these samples are not particularly valuable for Geronimo. > > The Yoko community did not have any committers that expressed an > interest in continuing work on these bindings. As such, only the code > would be moving to apache CXF. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) iD8DBQFHWAw5gNg6eWEDv1kRAuVKAJ9Gc2fCOtn3Jk0mv57aVNOrVeBDggCeKO13 1e5yFKqg3Pho6du93nO/Oj8= =vgMZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
