IMO, this topic is very important and it would be the next level for Tapestry. Some of my clients think Tapestry depends too much on Howard Ship.
Regards D. On 1/10/06, Howard Lewis Ship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone up for tapestry.apache.org? (I noticed we did have a discussion > about this back in March.) > > I've been saying for some time that Jakarta is turning into more of a > second-level incubator; all successful projects (including Ant and > Struts) have migrated up to top-level projects. It's been made clear > to me that this is not only possible for Tapestry, it is desirable. > > In organizational terms, this would mean that Tapestry would have its > own Project Management Comittee. We would have to produce quarterly > reports to the Apache board. Our home page address and mailing list > addresses would change. > > The advantage is that we could break Tapestry into smaller pieces > (projects within the TLP) and each sub-project could have its own set > of committers. This, combined with using Maven 2 for builds, would > give us a lot more flexibility and room to breathe. > > However, it requires a chairman to report to the board and I'm pretty > desperate for that to ** not ** be me. I say this out of a mix of > lazyness (I'm already too busy), self awareness (I do terribly at any > kind of organization stuff) and political savvy (it would some ways > demonstrate that Tapestry can survive without HLS). > > A TLP move would also be a good time to: > - Rethink our release numbering strategy > - Create new project marketting assets (icons, etc.) > - Ask HiveMind if they would like to move from Jakarta to Tapestry > > > On that second point ... does anyone have any ideas about refreshing > the Tapestry marketting assets? It might be nice to have someone > (semi-)professional design new icons and such. The Circle-T is really > looking dated! > > > -- > Howard M. Lewis Ship > Independent J2EE / Open-Source Java Consultant > Creator, Jakarta Tapestry > Creator, Jakarta HiveMind > > Professional Tapestry training, mentoring, support > and project work. http://howardlewisship.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
