Oleg Kalnichevski wrote: > Folks > > I just discovered someone at Geronimo had been copying verbatim various > classes from HttpClient 3.x and developing some kind of async HTTP > client on top of Mina. > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/sandbox/AsyncHttpClient/src/main/java/org/apache/ahc/auth/ > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/sandbox/AsyncHttpClient/src/main/java/org/apache/ahc/util/ > > I understand it is perfectly okay from the legal standpoint but I am not > feeling too happy that a fellow _Apache_ project lifting bits of out > code without _even_ notifying us. > > Am I over-reacting? > > Oleg
Well, "lifting" may be a strong word. But IMHO they could have worked together with the HttpClient team on this to get their changes merged. Just copy/paste and then tweak is certainly not good for them. They either had to backport fixes manually or just let the code rot. :-/ Odi -- [web] http://www.odi.ch/ [blog] http://www.odi.ch/weblog/ [pgp] key 0x81CF3416 finger print F2B1 B21F F056 D53E 5D79 A5AF 02BE 70F5 81CF 3416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
