One way of looking at Jakarta Commons Sandbox is as a kind of incubator. So you could argue that those projects should move to incubation... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Noels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 12:45 AM Subject: Re: The organization of xml.apache.org
> Sam Ruby wrote: > > > Merge or diverge. Having community boundaries distinct from PMC > > boundaries is not sustainable. > > And what about Commons and Commons-Sandbox? One can imagine these as the > refugee camps for smallish subprojects, without the 'community' to go > toplevel. > > http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-commons/ > http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-commons-sandbox/ > > might contain a lot of subprojects which doesn't fit your criteria > sizewise. Should these all be put back to incubator stage? Or do they > share a common 'Commons' community? > > I understand your point that a single PMC overlooking a lot of scattered > projects doesn't scale. Still, I believe some of these smallish > subprojects can share a common spirit, without sharing the developers > community. Merging all of these will make them less visible to the > outside world IMHO - meaning developers can meet, merge or exchange, but > to prospective users it will all be one big sinkhole. > > </Steven> > -- > Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/ > Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center > Read my weblog at http://radio.weblogs.com/0103539/ > stevenn at outerthought.org stevenn at apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > In case of troubles, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- In case of troubles, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
