At 14:58 04/03/02, Doug Mortson wrote: >My name is Doug Mortson, an independent consultant with 15 >years of industry experience. I have developed a software package >called Synergy (described below) that I think would be >a good edition to the Jakarta project.
Hello Doug, If you wish to make your product an open source project then no one is stopping you. Go for it. I would suggest uploading it to www.sourceforge.net and then doing some publicity for it - eg by getting a mention on freshmeat.net. You can even choose an "Apache-like" license on sourceforge Your tool definitely sounds interesting - I'll happily try it out and give it a review <plug>on my open source news website http://www.OWAL.co.uk/news/ </plug> You should investigate your "competitors" (such as Scarab or Bugzilla) and ask yourself why people should use your software instead of theirs - and write this up. Apache is not like other open source projects - they don't just accept any open source project that is offered to them. The main thing they want to see before "adopting" another project is whether or not there is an existing team of developers maintaining it. I would suggest that you should concentrate on getting that team of developers and publicising your software, and then come back to Apache in six months or so. (I am not speaking for Apache and hold no official position in the Apache Software Foundation). Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
