Hi Oliver, Oliver Heger wrote:
> Am 12.04.2017 um 19:39 schrieb Gilles: >> On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 18:25:03 +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: >>> On 04/12/2017 05:29 PM, Gilles wrote: >>> >>>> Do you actually prefer advertizing a non-Apache project rather than >>>> having the PMC support its own developers in any which way it could? >>> >>> If nobody is able to maintain commons-math I have no objection >>> recommending an alternative, especially one that is derived from >>> commons-math, has the same license and an open development process. >> >> The issue here is that an "in-house" solution has been proposed, >> based on time-consuming work on the part of developers still >> contributing here. >> The PMC members should logically (?) favour any proper endeavour >> that attempts to keep _this_ community alive. >> >> For functionality that requires expertise not existing anymore around >> here, it would be fine though, of course. >> Thus I ask that we make a list of such functionality before dismissing >> the local goodwill as if it didn't exist. >> >>> The minimal support you can expect from the PMC members is people voting >>> on the releases, and if there is no show stopper like binary >>> incompatibilities, awful regressions or improperly licensed code, the >>> vote will be a non-issue. >>> >>> >>>> How can you be so sure? The last releases did not elicit an awful lot >>>> of votes; and that is for components that do not raise objections about >>>> their mere existence. >>> >>> Give it a try? >> >> OK for small, focused, components? > > I am fine with Commons RNG and Commons Numbers. > > I would feel uneasy with a significant number of mathematical components > extracted from [math] that are added to Commons, even if they are small > and focused. It would seem strange if you opened the Commons Web site > and about half of the components were math-related. If this is the goal, > I would prefer to start again the top-level-project discussion. Then let's continue with it unless we *have* a significant number of components. If those attract in completion enough contributors/committers, we can again try to form a TLP and donate all of them. IMHO the creation of RNG and Numbers was healthy to our ecosystem, therefore I don't see a reason to stop with the separation of more component out of Math now. Cheers, Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
