Virtual Commons!!!!! (was Re: What is Jakarta Commons?)

2003-12-23 Thread Mark R. Diggory
Hello all, The ultimate goal of any Commons is to develop a shared codebase of components that are not large enough to be maintained on their own, and reduce replication of functionality in separate projects. This is not only integral to a healthy developing codebase at Apache, it is

RE: Virtual Commons!!!!! (was Re: What is Jakarta Commons?)

2003-12-23 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Mark R. Diggory wrote: I personally think that the idea of Commons should become more Virtual and Evolutionary in nature. if theres ever the case that xml commons and jakarta commons could become a shared community, it would produce the following benefits Mark, what you are saying is

Re: Virtual Commons!!!!! (was Re: What is Jakarta Commons?)

2003-12-23 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Why don't the various commons groups in the ASF just have the AC PMC add things on the A-C site and 'federate' that way? The respective PMCs would still do what they do - oversee the projects - and the AC PMC can maintain the website. geir On Dec 23, 2003, at 4:44 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote:

Re: Virtual Commons!!!!! (was Re: What is Jakarta Commons?)

2003-12-23 Thread Greg Stein
Hell ya. We can start this right away. Great idea, Geir. Now why didn't I think of that? :-) Cheers, -g p.s. note that Jakarta acting as a Java-based codebase federation is a separate matter; the J PMC can deal with that... On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 09:12:34PM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:

RE: Virtual Commons!!!!! (was Re: What is Jakarta Commons?)

2003-12-23 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: Why don't the various commons groups in the ASF just have the AC PMC add things on the A-C site and 'federate' that way? The respective PMCs would still do what they do - oversee the projects - and the AC PMC can maintain the website. I don't see why not. That

RE: Virtual Commons!!!!! (was Re: What is Jakarta Commons?)

2003-12-23 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
Quoting Noel J. Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: Why don't the various commons groups in the ASF just have the AC PMC add things on the A-C site and 'federate' that way? The respective PMCs would still do what they do - oversee the projects - and the AC PMC can

Re: Virtual Commons!!!!! (was Re: What is Jakarta Commons?)

2003-12-23 Thread Mark R. Diggory
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Mark R. Diggory wrote: I personally think that the idea of Commons should become more Virtual and Evolutionary in nature. if theres ever the case that xml commons and jakarta commons could become a shared community, it would produce the following benefits Mark, what