I asked earlier but didn't get an answer, I don't think.
Why would you like to come to the ASF?
geir
Andrus Adamchik wrote:
On Feb 20, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Brian McCallister wrote:
So, I'm very happy to help mentor (the Official Incubator Role and the
actual verb, as it relates to working within Apache) Cayenne, and
would love to see this work out! I just am trying to go with the TLP
preference vibe going around, and that Cayenne has been around a while
I don't want to cramp their style.
Brian,
thank you for your support! Actually TLP would be our choice as well,
and exactly for the reason that you mentioned. As Bill said we are not
well-connected with ASF, so we started looking for support in the
communities where we see synergies. And I am glad that we found it :-)
So how do we proceed now? Should we take the discussion on one of the
incubator lists?
It may be worth pinging the Tapestry folks as well as I have seen a
lot of Cayenne use within the Tapestry community, and they are an
energetic bunch.
Good idea. Just sent a message to tapestry-dev:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04867.html
On Feb 20, 2006, at 5:33 AM, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
Why do they want to come to Apache?
Answering Geir's question... I elaborated a bit on that in the message
to tapestry-dev above. Let me expand.
Cayenne has a five year history of providing strong and unique
persistence framework. During this time we've built a vibrant grassroots
community with zero corporate sponsorship. And while things look good
for Cayenne now and can stay the way they are for any foreseeable
future, we are always looking for ways to expand the community and to
bring our ideas to a wider audience.
So why Apache? It just seems natural. Back in the day when we set up
ObjectStyle.org, we looked at Apache as an example of how an open source
collaborative environment should work. And we succeeded in building one,
on a smaller scale. Now making Cayenne an ASF project is a logical next
step. And note that we are taking our current community with us, not
just throwing the code over the wall.
Also we are willing to collaborate with other projects if there is a
natural synergy. For instance we recently announced that Cayenne will be
implementing JPA (ORM part of JSR-220). So we are closely watching the
related activities in Geronimo. I already contributed a number of
JPA-related things to Open EJB and at the end the plan is to contribute
Cayenne JPA provider to Geronimo. I am sure other synergies will become
more obvious once we are in.
Andrus
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Andrei (aka Andrus) Adamchik
Cayenne Persistence Framework
Lead Architect
http://objectstyle.org/cayenne/
