Hi All,

As I mentioned earlied, I am really eager to see Mercury being brought into
Apache (either as a branch in Sandesha2 or as a seperate WS project). What I
really want to see is a comparison between two implementations. If a feature
complete Mercury version outperforms Sandesha2 I would be more than happy to
accept it as a replacement for Sandsha2.

Thanks,
Chamikara




On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> No objection at all, as long as its not castrated .. i.e., it must be ok to
> release. Is that ok with everyone?
>
> Sanjiva.
>
>
> Paul Fremantle wrote:
>
>> Ant
>>
>> I completely agree. I think the best outcome is to move the code into
>> ASF SVN, move the discussion over, and simply treat this as a new and
>> different codebase from Sandesha, with no implication about how this
>> pans out in the future.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:23 PM, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Just for the record I'd like to point out I've been talking as a WS PMC
>>> member. I've no idea what IBMs views are on this and haven't spoken to
>>> anyone in IBM about it. Also I'm fine with this code coming into the
>>> apache
>>> svn, that would be better than being developed at wso2 imho. I do think
>>> for
>>> now until there's consensus on it there should be no implication yet that
>>> its the "next" version, as outline in the rules for revolutions doc.
>>>
>>>   ...ant
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Sanjiva Weerawarana <
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'd like to hear what non-IBM Sandesha community members also think
>>>> about
>>>> this idea. If the entire community doesn't want this code coming here,
>>>> well,
>>>> then its ABSOLUTELY fine!
>>>>
>>>> Life will go on .. and if WSO2 wants to it can certainly contrib it and
>>>> start an alternative RM impl in Apache too. Apache does not have a
>>>> position
>>>> saying "only one of one thing".
>>>>
>>>> Sanjiva.
>>>>
>>>> Paul Fremantle wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 1. I agree that this code should not be in Apache with a org.wso2
>>>>> package namespace.
>>>>> 2. I don't agree that the timing of this is so bad. There is always a
>>>>> balance between starting something completely in the open and pushing
>>>>> a finished object onto the community. When Amila started this, it
>>>>> wasn't a conscious decision to replace Sandesha2 - it was simply an
>>>>> experiment. Amila got it to the point where the experiment proved that
>>>>> this particular approach could work and then brought it to the
>>>>> community. And I don't think this code is that complete - there is a
>>>>> lot of work to do on it. To be honest I think there are mixed
>>>>> messages. On the one hand I'm hearing that its too complete and we
>>>>> should have engaged the community earlier. On the other hand I'm
>>>>> hearing that because it doesn't implement 1.1. it still hasn't proven
>>>>> it can be a cleaner design that Sandesha2. Frankly I don't think there
>>>>> is any perfect answer here.
>>>>> 3. Apache has a strong history of allowing multiple implementations of
>>>>> the same thing and I don't see any reason why we shouldn't have two
>>>>> implementations of RM. Whether or not Mercury is a "replacement" for
>>>>> Sandesha seems to be something that will only will be decided if the
>>>>> community wants it to be that way. I think its *way* too early to tell
>>>>> at this point if Mercury is going to enthuse the community or not. So
>>>>> far it only implements about half of the features of Sandesha2.
>>>>> 4. I personally think that the right thing to do here is to engage the
>>>>> community. I think the right way to do that is to move the code to
>>>>> org.apache.something, and move the discussions to sandesha-dev with a
>>>>> prefix in the subject like [MERCURY]. This is what we have done time
>>>>> and again. Either it will engage a wider audience in the design and
>>>>> implementation or it won't, but unless we do this we can't know.
>>>>> 5. I don't think it really matters whether Sandesha2 has bugs or not.
>>>>> The question in my mind is whether this new implementation can be kept
>>>>> cleaner, faster, and more maintainable than Sandesha2. If it can be
>>>>> then it will gain support, and if not it won't. Its as simple as that.
>>>>> But I honestly believe in the Apache way, and I don't think it will
>>>>> end up better without the input of this community, who frankly know
>>>>> WSRM implementation as well as anyone in the world.
>>>>> 6. I *COMPLETELY* disagree with Ant's point about announcements. This
>>>>> is a module that works with Axis2 and there is absolutely nothing
>>>>> wrong with announcing it to the Axis2 community with an [ANN] header.
>>>>> That would be true if this was a commercial extension to Axis2. But
>>>>> this is an Apache Licensed open source project. Further, a version of
>>>>> this code has been donated to Apache. So unless I have somehow an
>>>>> utter misunderstanding of Apache's mailing lists I cannot see any
>>>>> reason at all not to post this announcement.
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:18 AM, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Glen Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  While that may be true, I'm disappointed that the work moved so far
>>>>>>>> forward before being brought to the Sandesha community, and I would
>>>>>>>> *really* like to find some navigable path that brings us eventually
>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>> single implementation of RM-over-Axis2, in Apache.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Agree with that completely, this seems a really sad thing to have
>>>>>> happened.
>>>>>> Is there really no way to get Sandesha working with SecureRM over
>>>>>> SMTP,
>>>>>> there didn't seem to be much discussion about what the issues are with
>>>>>> doing
>>>>>> that?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> While things are as they are I do think things like Mercury
>>>>>> announcements
>>>>>> should be kept off the Apache mailing lists, so no more posts like:
>>>>>> http://apache.markmail.org/message/ounhpi54rx543vqw
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  ...ant
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  --
>>>> Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D.
>>>> Founder & Director; Lanka Software Foundation;
>>>> http://www.opensource.lk/
>>>> Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://www.wso2.com/
>>>> Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/
>>>> Visiting Lecturer; University of Moratuwa; http://www.cse.mrt.ac.lk/
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