Hi, Scott or Andy - have you made any progress on any of this? Need anything to help it get going or whatever?
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 09:19, Peter Donald wrote: > 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 *------------------------------------------------* | You can't wake a person who is pretending | | to be asleep. -Navajo Proverb. | *------------------------------------------------*
