On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:20:46PM +0000, robert burrell donkin wrote: >... > (i can't speak for other people but) in my case, if i'm going to be > able to talk people around, i think that i need something like groups > to make them feel at home.
Agreed. We can always propose, and the arriving community can suggest alternatives if they have a different idea. > i'm also not convinced that the good folks here are really ready for > the full, hard code jakarta-commons experience just yet. i'd like to > try to put some ideas in place that would allow a gradual movement > rather than a stampede. I don't think anybody wants that, and I doubt that we'd see a stampede anyways. It isn't like A-C has a *HUGE* benefit over J-C such that everybody, unquestionably, wants to move over. I think it would remain as a trickle. >... > my first two candidates are commons-maths (there are very compelling > arguments in favour of making this move ASAP) and a regexp group for > jakarta-oro/jakarta-regex. Cool. > if i can be sure that they'd find a good home at apache-commons, i'd be > willing to do what i can to help this happen but i'd need to be clear > exactly what the apache commons pmc would require (from their > perspective). > > some guidance as to procedures would be a good start.
