* On 2002-10-18 at 13:51, Scott Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> excited the electrons to say: > > Doh, didn't realize the Reply-To was not set.
/me readies apmail access.. > > Was it mature? Did it have a community? > > On the question of community, is the user base also considered > community. For example, Geir attempted to bring PoolMan into Jakarta, > but the 'community' perceived at that time was only one developer. The > thousands of users did not count to anyone but Geir and a few other > people (me). I would say that PoolMan was a healthy community (I chose > to use it because it was the best component at the time, and I was > getting my questions answered). Does that count as community? my current feeling is yes. > What about a codebase that is mature (jakarta-regexp), and doesn't > really have any development momentum? if it's a common component, and would be useful to other projects than just jakarta, and has no active development, i think it should probably move to apache commons where it will gain visibility to everyone else without losing it in jakarta. situational, of course. > I would like to note here Sander, that jakarta-commons has only one > development mailing list for all of the small projects, and it has > worked out very well from the 'building a community perspective'. Not > saying that separate mailing lists are bad, just stating MHO. i'm reserving my opinion on this one.. -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!"
