i wanted to start a discussion about making hedwig and bookkeeper a subproject. (actually pat started the discussion last month in general about all of the contrib projects.) there are three questions, in my mind, that we need to answer to move forward:
1) should it be a hedwig/bookkeeper subproject, or should there be two separate projects? we need to build a developer community and i'm wondering if we should try to build a single dev community or two. the relationship is a bit asymmetrical: hedwig depends on bookkeeper, but not visa-versa. i'm inclined to say we do a hedwig subproject and include bookkeeper with it, but i don't feel strongly. 2) should we propose a subproject to zookeeper or to incubator? i'm a bit more inclined to propose a zookeeper subproject simply because it fits well with the zookeeper community, but it does introduce a bit more overhead to the zookeeper PMC. 3) do we have the developer interest to make it happen in the first place? i know we can get at least 3 initial committers from yahoo!, but projects should be represented by multiple companies. (the goal is at least 3.) so, is there interest in working on the project from others? please comment. these are all open issues, so opinions are what i'm looking for. if there isn't much discussion, i think that will implicitly answer 3 :) thanx ben
