On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Greg Stein wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:01:18PM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > > On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 06:32 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:33:30PM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > > >> ... > > >> Why not just free j-c to be a TLP if it wants to? > > > > > > Why would the board be inclined to create a *second* Commons project > > > when the first one they created should be sufficient? > > > > The second one has well-known and widely used code and years of > > established community? > > And the Board would simply respond with something like, "well, why doesn't > that community operate as part of the A-C TLP?" > > > Look. Geir, Rodney: if you guys don't believe in A-C, then fine. You don't > have to. But some others do, and it appears that some J-C components will > move. Why is that so threatening?
On the contrary, I think apache-commons has several things going for it, and I'd very much like to see the project, or more generally, its mission of creating reusable library code under the ASL, succeed. Frankly, I'm a bit insulted you'd characterize this interest as feeling "threatened" by the possibility, and I'm disappointed that you'd respond to any difference of opinion about how to best accomplish that mission by with comments along the lines of "and if you disagree, then go away". Not to put to fine a point on it, but if I were "threatened" by the possibility of jakarta-commons components moving to apache-commons, then I probably wouldn't be offering suggestions about how best to encourage j-c components to move to a-c, as you see me doing at <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.commons.general/151> and <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.commons.general/158>, to name two examples. > If you want to fix the oversight in J-C, then do so. Personally, I don't > believe it is possible, for the reasons that Robert has already described. > But I certainly won't stop you from trying. > > Cheers, > -g - Rod <http://radio.weblogs.com/0122027/>
