Hi, One of the things that has come out of the reorg lists is the idea that we get some decent project infrastructure going. In case not everyone is aware there has been a discussion of adopting SourceCast. You can see an early (and supposedly clunky) SourceCast in action at www.tigris.org
SourceCast is proprietry but developed by Apache people and large chunks of it is opensource and much of it at Jakarta/XML projects. Anyways they have offered it to Apache for us to use. Some people object to it as it is not opensource but I personally think that enough of it is. There is no problem and they have said that they will sign an agreement that if CollabNet goes belly up we get to keep it or something similar. So the end result is that there should not be any undue risk for Apache and it would improve our infrastructure greatly. Anyways if anyone has any better ideas then feel free to jump on reorg list and voice them. If anyone has any insurmountable objections then voice them now. Anyways I would like to maybe start trialing the SourceCast software as part of Apache Commons. Andrew Oliver has volunteered to help get it on the road and I will also help to kick start things though it would be great if some other volunteers came forward. Basically the idea would be to trial the software for Apache and if it fits out needs start migrating it to other Apache projects. If no one objects we can start trying to pull the strings together. -- Cheers, Peter Donald -------------------------------- These aren't the droids you're looking for. Move along. --------------------------------
