> I am wondering about this vote though. Why now? and what's the > significance of POI/Jakarta svn access merging? To me it seems the > flattening of svn is of little significance. After a year with the > new structure, I see individual cases where committers have > cross-pollinated (in commons, perhaps) but it hasn't seemed to make a > big impact for many subprojects.
Its about reaching the end of a process which was intended to stop jakarta being too big and containing insular sub-projects, a situation which was felt to be a threat to the nature of the ASF, the rest of Jakarta has pretty much accomodated this change POI have made no moves, it isn't going to go away until either POI becomes part of the flat jakarta or leaves to become a TLP, there isn't really any way that POI could be a "special case" when Ant, Avalon, Gump, James, Logging, Lucene, Maven, Jetspeed, Struts, Tapestry, Tomcat, Watchdog, and others, have had to face the same decision, and in many cases had similar reservations about both opening up and leaving. Jakarta is part of the ASF, it isn't an alternative entity. There isn't and should not be a hierarchy of management and oversight, it should be Board->PMC and no deeper than that. That means participate in flat jakarta or move up to TLP. d. ******************************************************************************************************* The information in this e-mail is confidential and for use by the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message from your computer. You may not copy or forward it or use or disclose its contents to any other person. As Internet communications are capable of data corruption Student Loans Company Limited does not accept any responsibility for changes made to this message after it was sent. For this reason it may be inappropriate to rely on advice or opinions contained in an e-mail without obtaining written confirmation of it. Neither Student Loans Company Limited or the sender accepts any liability or responsibility for viruses as it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any). Opinions and views expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender and may not reflect the opinions and views of The Student Loans Company Limited. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. ******************************************************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
