On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 08:47:09AM -0400, Michael A. Smith wrote: >... > I don't want to see such an attitude here in apache commons, which is > one of the reasons I'm here trying to participate. I want to see a > place where "reusable libraries and components" can be built > irregardless to whether they are in active use in another apache > project, so long as they are in active use somewhere (i.e. they have a > community). Users of apache software aren't always necessarily apache > projects, and requiring a library or componant to have an apache user is > completely unnecessary in my view.
I believe that is the intent. Certainly, the official charter from the Board does not include any requirement of "must be used by Apache projects". I'm going to update the commons' STATUS doc to get voting/clarification. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
