[Tapestry-developer] Tapestry @ Jakarta and/or Apache

[Andrew C. Oliver]

Hello Tapestry developers,

Mr. Ship has approached Apache about Tapestry becoming a Jakarta project. We're impressed by the amount of support, etc. this project has and the community building around it. Great job!

Myself, Dion Gillard and others are interested in the proposal. Jakarta has experienced rapid growth over the years and its felt some growing pains. In order to rectify this new procedures are being put in place and a "reorganization" of sorts is happening. Its my goal to work with the project to gain acceptence within this environment, while insulating Tapestry folks as much as possible from the issues surrounding it to avoid any potential misunderstandings and frustration. Among things that are on the table is the possibility of projects such as Tapestry becoming top level ASF projects (meaning an equal level to Jakarta not a subproject), but while you might want to keep a preference in the back of your minds, I don't think it needs to be a key concern.

I think Apache has a lot to offer Tapestry and vice versa. There are however some issues to be addressed from the Tapestry side BEFORE any move is possible.

1. Identify at least 3 committers (should be the principal active contributers). These people will have CVS priviledges and voting privilages over the project. 2. Adopt Apache voting rules (http://httpd.apache.org/dev/guidelines.html)
3. Vote on relicensing from LGPL to ASL (http://www.apache.org/LICENSE.txt) which is an apache requirement. As part of this process you need to contact any major contributors and ask them if its okay. Keep that list handy.

Implications:

When you move to Apache the code becomes the property of the Apache Software Foundation (for many reasons especially liability, etc). So all major contributers must agree to that as well. (if they have not assigned their copywright already as a condition of donating to the project).

While our new process is evolving, these (http://jakarta.apache.org/site/newproject.html) general guidelines should help you get an idea on what the requirements for the project will be for acceptance regardless.

Please let me know if there are any questions or concernes. If you're willing to move forward with this process, I'll work as a resource to help you through this process.

Thanks,

Andrew C. Oliver
Apache committer to Jakarta POI, Lucene
contributer to Apache XML Cocoon 2 and Jakarta JAMES



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