Hi, The main reason is in the threads quoted in my original email: there is increased support and motivation for it in the broader ASF community. A secondary reason is my own personal interest in seeing Tomcat become an even stronger brand.
Yoav > -----Original Message----- > From: Henri Gomez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 3:25 PM > To: Tomcat Developers List > Subject: Re: Time for TLP? > > It was proposed months ago when ant became TLP and the consensus at > this time was to keep Tomcat in the jakarta. > > I'd like to know the reason who motive this move ;) > > > On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:00:54 -0500, Yoav Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Yea, TLP = Top-Level Project. My apologies for the acronym ;) > > > > It would mean Tomcat leaves Jakarta technically. There would be a > Tomcat > > PMC (roughly consisting of all current committers), reporting to the ASF > > Board. There would be a tomcat.apache.org instead of > > Jakarta.apache.org/tomcat (obviously old links will be kept as > forwarding > > URLs for sanity sake). For more details on what's involved, you can > google > > on the promotions of Struts, Lucene, Cocoon, or any other sub-project > that's > > now an Apache TLP. > > > > As I said before, this is an informal survey. A formal proposal and > vote > > would be the next step, but as one can see from the URLs below, there is > a > > broad level of support within the ASF for Tomcat becoming its own TLP. > > > > Yoav > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Derrick Koes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 2:28 PM > > > To: Tomcat Developers List > > > Subject: RE: Time for TLP? > > > > > > TLP = Top Level Project ? > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Yoav Shapira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 1:42 PM > > > To: 'Tomcat Developers List' > > > Subject: Time for TLP? > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > In light of these recent discussions on [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=111142560900001 > > > <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=111142560900001&r=1&w=2> &r=1&w=2 > > > > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=jakarta-general > > > <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=jakarta- > general&m=111142733325833&w=2> > > > &m=111142733325833&w=2 > > > > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=111117537800002 > > > <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=111117537800002&r=1&w=2> &r=1&w=2 > > > > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=111117537800002 > > > <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=111117537800002&r=1&w=2> &r=1&w=2 > > > > > > > > > > > > I think we're ready to move Tomcat to a TLP. There's a lot of support > for > > > it in the general Jakarta and ASF ranks. Before we write and vote on > a > > > proposal, I wanted to see informally what the opinions are within our > own > > > group about this potential move. I'm obviously +1. > > > > > > > > > > > > Yoav Shapira > > > > > > System Design and Management Fellow > > > > > > MIT Sloan School of Management / School of Engineering > > > > > > Cambridge, MA USA > > > > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
