On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Sander Striker wrote:
> > From: Henri Yandell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 21 October 2002 15:44 > > > Erm. Looks like Geir's the only candidate then. There needs to be some > > overlap between Jakarta Commons and Apache Commons surely? I'm assuming > > that Geir's very instrumental as he's the bridge and probably the one with > > the most 'Commons' experience at Apache Commons? > > > > [Not checked to see who the APR member is and who the Xml-Commons member > > is, but I assume that the Apache Commons board has a person from each] > > The entire PMC is in STATUS. Yeah. Peter Donald is new since I last looked. No idea who does what though, will have to go through the committer lists to figure it all out. > > > > None of us are really going to budge at the moment if the chance still > > > > exists that we join and then find out that some beaureacrat is demanding > > > > that we release all our code in perl/c++ and tcl too. [a hypothetically > > > > stupid situation]. I do however expect a lot of us to be listening in > > > > though and try to help you get Apache-Commons/Java to the point of being > > > > useful to Jakarta Commons, but I doubt any of us will commit. > > > > >> no, forcing multi-language implementation is 'way off the radar, and > >> destry-on-sight as a concept. having a place where non-java stuff can > >> live alongside java *is* in scope and one of the goals. > > > > It's in scope until the scope is defined though. Currently joining Apache > > Commons is akin to using proprietary s/w, no clue which direction it's > > going to go right now. > > This is a bit harsh don't you think. If you look at the STATUS file > and the resolution that was passed by the Board you should at least get > some general sense of the direction we wish to take Commons. It's a bit bombastic I agree, but is only really covered by the weakly defined 'language-agnostic' bit. Interesting that the resolution makes no mention of server-side functionality. Hen
