It's since 31/1/2003 that there has been no real activity on this list.
This is IMHO the most interesting part of it: ...
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Aaron Bannert wrote:
The Apache Commons project was definitely inspired by the Jakarta Commons project, and aims to be the preferred home for old and new Jakarta Commons projects both in terms of cross-project Java development and cross-language projects.
-aaron
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?
IMHO, things need some focus in order to avoid becoming unbounded, like sourceforge. Keeping Jakarta commons to small reusable components that actually are used by Jakarta projects seems to provide the right level of focus.
There also is a notion of 'closeness' that I think is relevant. Does your community have a park? Mine does. I think the nature of the location would change if it were made a national park.
Or perhaps it simply is inertia. As you point out, Jakarta commons appears to be working.
- Sam Ruby
