On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 01:54 AM, Greg Stein wrote:
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:26:45PM +0100, robert burrell donkin wrote:... anyway, rather than go over all the old arguments again, i'd say that it' d be better to go forward by looking at the positives that apache commons can offer (rather than getting into an argument about the jakarta mission scope).
Well, to be honest, that is kind of a weird question to me. "what do you have to offer?" Euh... project space?
i meant that i think it's important to be positive rather than negative. (i didn't intend it to be a question.)
taking the (hypothetical) example of the thread pool, i would say that it'
s negative to say 'a thread pool is out of scope in jakarta and therefore should be moved to apache commons'. a example of a positive encouragement would be 'move to apache commons because the apache commons community can help you learn to build better threading pools'. another example of a positive encouragement would be 'a thread pool is more in-scope here and will benefit from a move to apache commons since the community and goals are better aligned than at jakarta'.
- robert
