Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > One of the things that has come out of the reorg lists is the idea that we ge > t > 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 i > t > 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.
+1 Althought I'd much prefer to wait until we can try out Sourcecast 2.0 or 2.5. 1.x (which you can see at http://subversion.tigris.org/) is a bit lacking, IMO. -Fitz
