My very simple common-sense brain keeps asking... what are we waiting to simply promote Jakarta Commons to project status and make *that* the commons.apache.org project?
They have the active people, the tried and tested rules, the activity, the projects, the will, the time, to make Commons really thrive as a project.
Why is this not pursued?
We have offered them to move to this ASF commons, but they (IIRC, Costin was the most vocal opponent) adamantly refused to have anything to do with the ASF top-level commons and wanted to stay within the protection of the Jakarta PMC.
*This* commons is not about language-specific code. Jakarta commons is only about Java code. Therefore, for the goals others have in mind (such as myself), the Jakarta commons isn't large enough in scope to do what we want it to do.
If any Jakarta commons project wished to move over here, I'd be a very big +1 as a PMC member.
Note that Greg and I have discussed moving serf over fairly soon. We'll probably do that in a few weeks, but there's a technical thing we need to fix/implement in Subversion first. -- justin
