PMC and Pluto Developers,
Yesterday Ate, Craig, Elliot, and Stefan and I from the portals project
were able to join the conference call which was proposed to discuss 286
reference implementation with the EG Chair (Stefan) and the Univ of
Jena. I wanted to provide a recap of what was discussed:
First, Stefan quickly recapped the progress so far. The bottom line is
that the development that has taken place so far is considered a
prototype and will not necessarily be a final solution. It was simple
implemented as an experimentation to validate the decisions made by the
EG. This work was done in secret according to the guidelines of the JCP
and it is recognized that in order to be in compliance with Apache
guidelines things need to be more open from here forward.
The rest of the discussion was based around moving forward. We would
like to hear your feedback in regards to the following proposal. If
there seem to be no objections, I will propose a vote in the next couple
of days:
1) Create a pluto-2.0 branch which is based off of the current pluto
trunk (pluto 1.1). All pluto committers, as with any other branch, will
have immediate access to committing to this branch. This includes Urlich
who is (to some extent) part of the Univ. of Jena team.
2) All code committed to the pluto-2.0 branch will follow normal Apache
review cycles. Committers should review the committ logs and validate
it's the direction they'd like to see. Discussions regarding the
validity of changes should be discussed on the mailing list and all -1s
will apply as normal.
3) Any major overhauls or design decisions should be brought up on the
pluto developer mailing list.
4) ALL decisions should be made on the pluto developer mailing list.
Any discussions which are not done on the list should be recapped on the
list and open for discussion before being implemented.
5) Create a new version within JIRA (2.x) against which others
(including those in the Univ of Jena which aren't committers) can
provide patches. Each of these patches will be considered and discussed
on a case by case basis on the pluto-dev list.
6) Allow collaboration through the Pluto wiki. Ensure that all
collaboration is brought back to the pluto-dev list before a decision is
made.
Ate, Craig and Elliot, please let me know if I missed anything.
Everyone else, please chime in and let us know your thoughts!
Thanks,
David
