Danny Angus wrote:This is not a given. Geronimo is a new project, there is great scope for newFrom where, though? I had volunteered to do it, and worked away atproviding the implementation. From a community PoV, the files haven't been
in there very long but no doubt others will pick it up where it needs to
be handled.
code ending up being orphaned if a community of interested people doesn't
gel around it, there is no guarantee that this will happen.
I agree there is that risk.
That said, I believe the James community would be fertile ground to take over responsibility of the ASF-licensed implementation. I'm planning to push to adopt Alex's implementation into James once it's appropriate. In fact, I was wondering how the activation.jar implementation is coming. :)
We've discussed creating a subproject in James to maintain ASF-licensed JavaMail implementations, which historically has only really meant stores and session (providers). If it can include the core implementation as well, so be it.
Would it not be better to try and evolve it into a commons- package, though? It looks like it will be desirable from both James and Geronimo, and IIRC Maven is also something that could stand to benefit from it ...
These are longer-term goals, though; my initial focus will be getting it set up in Geronimo, and then bounce ideas of where it should live when it's ready :-)
Alex.
