On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Noel J. Bergman wrote:

> Henri Yandell wrote:
>
> > I would have embraced that idea a year ago, but when discussed it was said
> > to not be an option to have a hierarchy of PMCs below the Jakarta PMC of 7
> > members.
>
> There is a difference between a hierarchy and a confederation.  There is
> absolutely nothing that says that we cannot have:
>
>   Jakarta PMC: responsible for jakarta-site/jakarta-site2
>   Tomcat PMC: tomcat and related code
>   Struts PMC: struts and related code
>   Jakarta Commons PMC: ...
>   Tapestry PMC: ...
>   ...
>
> All without a single change to the Jakarta domain.
>
> No one should feel that there is any relationship between the Foundation's
> legal structure, and e-mail/web addresses.  We have had this confirmed
> already by both Greg and Sam.  The above *is* an acceptable solution to the
> Board.  The question is whether or not it is an acceptable one to us.

Gotya. Had been wondering why you kept pushing the multi-PMC approach.

I'm +0 to this and would still be worried about what 'Jakarta' meant now.
Hopefully if this happened, ant, maven, avalon, cocoon, etc would be able
to join Jakarta again. Same for xerces-J, xalan-J etc.

So these would basically be TLPs without the domain name?

Hen


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