i started a commons etiquette page on the wiki a little while ago which
contains some opinions on the promotion process:
http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?JakartaCommonsEtiquette
it might of some help a little further down the line.
- robert
On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 07:07
-Original Message-
From: Stephen Colebourne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Promotion is probably a good idea, but it should be without
backwards compatability code IMO. You imply that there is a
codec 1.0 release, but this cannot be as sandbox components
may not have releases...
: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:53 AM
To: Jakarta Commons Developers List
Subject: Re: [codec] promote from sandbox
Just read the etiquette thing. I think a good indicator that Codec
Base64 is ready for consumption is its successful integration in both
HttpClient and XML-RPC. I see that it is used
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Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 1:45 PM
To: 'Jakarta Commons Developers List'
Subject: RE: [codec] promote from sandbox - RE: commons codec and Base64
-Original Message-
From: Stephen Colebourne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Promotion is probably a good idea
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, O'brien, Tim wrote:
I don't think it is a good policy to require backwards compatibility for
sandbox components, but I think we have a special case here since codec has
been in use for a sustained period of time.
Rarely is backwards compatiblity a bad thing.
- Rod
