On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Martin van den Bemt wrote:
> If poi committers agree with this proposal, I like to "hear" them :)
We had a discussion on something like this on the poi-dev list back in the
summer. To save everyone having to trawl back, here's basically what I had
to say.
I it is felt that POI should migrate to a TLP, I'd be happy with that.
I've had a chat with Henri, and I have an idea of what that'd entail. I'm
happy to do some of the work on gaining TLP status, such as helping with
the various documents and charters.
If POI doesn't go for TLP, then I think it does need to integrate better
with Jakarta. I think it would be good if more of our committers also
submitted the odd patch to other Jakarta sub-projects, and if the odd
jakarta committer contributed some code or advice to us. I think the
easiest way to facilitate this is:
1) get all poi committers subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2) get more poi committers to attend apachecons, party@ events etc, and
meet more jakarta committers. (I found it very helpful to meet other
jakarta people in person)
What I'm not a fan of are the "one user and one dev list for jakarta" type
proposals. If the option was that, or TLP, I'd start writing the TLP
supporting docs right now. Oh, but that's not an invition to suggest it,
just to get us out ;-)
On a related note, I feel I ought to stand up a bit for the POI support
for the recent release. I was given some advice, made use of the same
build tasks as last time etc. The problem wasn't so much that I wasn't
fully supported, it was more that the advice and build process was out of
date.
In future, we'll do POI releases according to the latest advice, as two
votes (one for the idea of a release, and one to approve the files for the
release). So, we'll be able to get advice from the rest of Jakarta if we
ever fall behind on release best pratices :)
Nick
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