Re: Move The Asset Maintenance Component To A Separate Project

2014-11-29 Thread Adrian Crum
Good point, thanks! Adrian Crum Sandglass Software www.sandglass-software.com On 11/29/2014 5:26 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: On Nov 28, 2014, at 5:20 PM, Adrian Crum adrian.c...@sandglass-software.com wrote: 1. Check with the ASF legal department before doing anything. You can do step #1

Re: Move The Asset Maintenance Component To A Separate Project

2014-11-29 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Le 29/11/2014 06:26, Jacopo Cappellato a écrit : On Nov 28, 2014, at 5:20 PM, Adrian Crum adrian.c...@sandglass-software.com wrote: 1. Check with the ASF legal department before doing anything. You can do step #1 without any approval from the ASF or the OFBiz project. 2. Create a project

Re: Move The Asset Maintenance Component To A Separate Project

2014-11-29 Thread Anil Patel
Yes, I do have interest in asset maintenance application and I like the idea and direction proposed by Adrian. With time I will figure out ways to support this experiment. Anil Patel. On Nov 29, 2014, at 4:37 AM, Jacques Le Roux jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com wrote: Le 29/11/2014

Move The Asset Maintenance Component To A Separate Project (was: Suggest branch rather than release strategy?)

2014-11-28 Thread Adrian Crum
As has been discussed in this thread, we can spin off special purpose components to their own projects - where they can form their own communities and support structure. I am willing to use the Asset Maintenance component as a trial run. Here are some of my initial thoughts, comments are

Re: Move The Asset Maintenance Component To A Separate Project

2014-11-28 Thread Ron Wheeler
No need to fork the project. Let's keep it within Apache. On 28/11/2014 11:20 AM, Adrian Crum wrote: As has been discussed in this thread, we can spin off special purpose components to their own projects - where they can form their own communities and support structure. I am willing to use

Re: Move The Asset Maintenance Component To A Separate Project (was: Suggest branch rather than release strategy?)

2014-11-28 Thread Scott Gray
Hi Adrian, Sounds like a good plan to me. I think there should probably be some sort of a delay in step #5 and it should ultimately be decided by a PMC vote at that point in time as well. I totally support the concept though. Regards Scott On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 5:20 AM, Adrian Crum

Re: Move The Asset Maintenance Component To A Separate Project

2014-11-28 Thread Ron Wheeler
Don't forget to get ICLAs and Corporate CLAs for the new site for each contributor otherwise you will have trouble if you want to submit it to Apache OFBiz in the future. I guess that if you offer it under an Apache license without having an ICLA /CCLA in place, you would be personally liable

Re: Move The Asset Maintenance Component To A Separate Project

2014-11-28 Thread Scott Gray
OFBiz itself went through that on a much larger scale when joining the ASF. It took some time but it wasn't a big deal. No users are forced to do anything other than make a choice: stick with what you have or change to what is now available. Open source users make these types of decisions on a

Re: Move The Asset Maintenance Component To A Separate Project

2014-11-28 Thread Ron Wheeler
On 28/11/2014 9:38 PM, Scott Gray wrote: OFBiz itself went through that on a much larger scale when joining the ASF. It took some time but it wasn't a big deal. No users are forced to do anything other than make a choice: stick with what you have or change to what is now available. Open source

Re: Move The Asset Maintenance Component To A Separate Project

2014-11-28 Thread Scott Gray
Yeah I understood that. Deleting simply means it won't be available in future releases. It wouldn't suddenly disappear out of pre-existing releases. Regards Scott On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Ron Wheeler rwhee...@artifact-software.com wrote: On 28/11/2014 9:38 PM, Scott Gray wrote:

Re: Move The Asset Maintenance Component To A Separate Project

2014-11-28 Thread Ron Wheeler
On 28/11/2014 10:14 PM, Scott Gray wrote: Yeah I understood that. Deleting simply means it won't be available in future releases. It wouldn't suddenly disappear out of pre-existing releases. Got it. Regards Scott On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Ron Wheeler

Re: Move The Asset Maintenance Component To A Separate Project (was: Suggest branch rather than release strategy?)

2014-11-28 Thread Jacopo Cappellato
On Nov 28, 2014, at 5:20 PM, Adrian Crum adrian.c...@sandglass-software.com wrote: 1. Check with the ASF legal department before doing anything. You can do step #1 without any approval from the ASF or the OFBiz project. 2. Create a project on a popular hosting site (like SourceForge, but it