Sounds kool.
One thing that jumps into my mind. Are we going to set a minimum bar of entry for commons projects? Or at least a minimum bar for release of said projects?
For now, you have to convince the PMC. In serf's case, we have a very stacked deck, so it's not quite fair. =) And, my personal position is that the barrier would be pretty low. Perhaps we could go to the length of the Jakarta guidelines as suggestions, but I'm not sure how often we're going to get code handed to us in Commons.
I also don't think that the PMC should set guidelines on a release (other than 3 binding +1s) or on coding style or on build systems. Leave that up to the committers. The PMCs job should be to stay the heck out of the way of the committers. If the committers need help, they can ask the PMC for guidance, but let's not have a PMC that dictates from upon high.
Note that as a committer I have very rigid requirements for what a release is, what coding style, and what build system to use. But, I don't believe the PMC should dictate to *me* what tools I use. (One reason I'm against using Ant commons-wide - it sucks for C code which is about all I care about.) -- justin
