I think some of the recent discussion on the jakarta-commons list about which specific commons components to move to a db-commons subprojects is getting a little bit ahead of ourselves.
As previously discussed here, I've adapated the Jakarta Commons charter/proposal in order to create a DB Commons charter/proposal. You can find the HTML rendering at <http://apache.org/~rwaldhoff/db-commons/charter.html>. The difference between this and the original is largely (a) I removed the Java specific language and guidelines, (b) I removed the jakarta-commons guidelines that have been entirely or largely ignored, (c) I collapsed portions of the FAQ and Resources section of the jakarta-commons document directly into the Guidelines section. I don't think there are any real suprises in that document, but please take a careful look. I'd like to address the comments, suggestions or objections anyone here may have, and then propose this to the PMC. Thanks, - Rod
