I've read the bulk of the archives for the repository list and I'm ready to conclude that the work I'm envisioning doesn't lie within its scope.
"The tools that retrieve from the repository are not within its scope. Anything (and I do mean anything) beyond that is a software project that the ASF has not authorized, and certainly won't be developed here unless it is within a PMC." -- Roy T. Fielding (http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo =255) I completely agree with Roy in this regard, and I'll continue on my own. I'll also keep my eyes open in case a tools project for this lands in the incubator, and see if I can help them out, but I'm under the impression that Geronimo's UI needs are very specific and custom to our project, and that there is very little overlap with other projects--I'm not completely sold on the worth of a common UI project but if I can help with it, I certainly will. I'm also not convinced the ASF repository alone will be able to satisfy the needs of Geronimo's users. I'll be glad to add hooks to the ASF repo, but I'll also be adding hooks to a repository hosted by a reliable third party like ibiblio--specifically, one that lies outside the ASF's infrastructure. There will hopefully be private, corporate entities and independently managed Open Source projects who want to publish J2EE services that plug into Geronimo, or even services that lie outside of the spec & standards but who have been able to attract users anyway (like hibernate). They'll not be keeping their artifacts in the ASF repository : ) So, whatever work I do on this I'll make sure it is neutral in regards to the ASF and a potential third-party repository, and I'll try to write it so we can add hooks for different repositories as the need arises. I just want the users to have options and for other projects and companies to be able to publish service plugins for Geronimo and have them made available through the management interface ; ) Thanks for the heads-up about the repository, Noel. I'll keep up with it and see if there's any way I can help once things crystallize a bit more. -- N. Alex Rupp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 1:35 PM Subject: RE: Universal Geronimo Service Repository > > I've been planning on adding these features into the management > > UI for some time now (note the greyed out "Add / Remove Modules" > > link in the current UI ) > > > I have a lot of questions on how I'd do this, how we could get > > a list of the available services. > > > I've been assuming that references to services will be stored > > at ibiblio (or somewhere analogous). > > I re-iterate that you should subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you want > to discuss the repository side of this topic. Nicola Ken has also proposed > a tool project for incubation. Other tools in this space would also include > maven and merlin, both of which are represented in the repository group. > > --- Noel > >
