I'm not one of the people involved in the decision, but if I had to guess I'd say it stems from the fact that there's been virtually no activity in the apache commons project. The only project that ever became part of it was serf, and it's been largely inactive for months. If there's no community of people scrambling to put code into the commons project, there's little reason for it to exist.
Yup, we (Greg and I) felt that the ASF wasn't the right place any longer; the board also made a recommendation to close the Commons PMC. Since it's entirely inactive, I think it's warranted to shut the whole Commons project down. (Greg and I are the only two who made commits to the current branch of serf, so...)
Where will the exisitng code go?
Greg's commit message says that serf development will continue outside the ASF.
Yup, over on webdav.org. <http://svn.webdav.org/repos/projects/serf/> There's a [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list you can subscribe to keep up-to-date on commits to serf.
If you are interested in developing on serf (we might not even keep the same name!), please send either myself or Greg a private email.
Thanks. -- justin
