On 4/18/06, Phil Zoio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd be happy to pass Strecks on to Struts itself if the community really > wanted it, but I don't see that as essential to its existence in any way.
What we look for is a community forming around the codebase. We don't just want code, we want people who are committed to maintaining the code over the long term. Not just one person, but a community of "likely suspects" who will step and and volunteer if the creator of the code loses interest. Many extensions that people now consider essential, like Tiles and Validator, started as third-party extensions. Whether we want to add an extension to the core usually depends on how many people recommend the extension on the list -AND- whether the people developing the extension follow the user list. This is as true for committers as it is for non-committers. Hubert, Niall, James Holmes, James Mitchell, Laurie Harper, Don Brown, myself, and others, all have extensions to Struts that we have distributed separately. Some of these extension were ultimately added to the distribution, and others have not been. In the latter case, it's usually because the committer chooses not to donate the extension. The Struts Action distribution is already quite large, and we are all sensitve to "code bloat". In the case of Strecks, a similar case would the "EL" tags. At first, it was a separate subproject, because EL was based on Java 1.3 when we had set Java 1.2 as the baseline. For Struts Action 1.3, we moved the baseline, and so EL is now integrated into the JSP Tags. The same thing could happen here, if a community grows around the codebase, and the community wanted to be an Apache Struts subproject. (Not everyone does!) -Ted. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
