On 8/8/07, Felix Meschberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Am Mittwoch, den 08.08.2007, 17:03 +0300 schrieb Alexandru Popescu ☀: > > Very interesting initiative Felix! Still, I am wondering why this > > would not start as a Jackrabbit contrib project, and I don't think I > > have seen this in the attached proposal. > > The reason for not simply adding it as a contrib to Jackrabbit is the > "size" of the project: It consists of roughly 30 sub-projects. Pushing a > project of this size simply as a contrib to an existing project has been > considered as going through the backdoor and not being the Apache way. > > I have not taken a note on this in the proposal because we just could > not imagine just hacking it into Jackrabbit as a contrib. >
I see. Maybe this should be clarified in the proposal, so that others will not have to ask :-). As I mentioned by the time you've sent out the first email, I am very interested in seeing what this project is. Looking forward to hearing more, ./alex -- .w( the_mindstorm )p. > Hope this helps. > > Regards > Felix > >
