Hey Mohammad,
Thank you for your reply! I will look into the incubator project :)
Its true that sop-java is currently a one-man project and I hope to
change that at some point. For now I will focus on stabilizing the code
and trying to get some outside contributors on board :)
Paul
Am 15.01.22 um 18:01 schrieb Mohammad Noureldin:
Hi Paul,
1st of all, thanks for approaching the Apache Community Development
[1] community with your questions and ideas.
On the technical side, your ideas sound interesting. On the project
side, specially for new projects coming to the Apache Software
Foundation (ASF), the Apache Incubator community [2] is the right
place to start.
That said, and by looking at sop-java [3], it looks like it is a 1
Person Community/Project. One of the key points in the Apache Way [4]
is "Community Over Code":
"... The maxim "Community Over Code" is frequently reinforced
throughout the Apache community, as the ASF asserts that a healthy
community is a higher priority than good code. Strong communities can
always rectify problems with their code, whereas an unhealthy
community will likely struggle to maintain a codebase in a sustainable
manner.".
Though the size of a Project's Community, in the number of
developers/contributors [5], is not the only factor to measure a
community's health, but from experience it is one of the main factors
which contributes to that. In that sens, ASF works different than
hosting a project's code on GitHub for example.
My personal advise would be to continue working on your ideas while
hosting the code on GitHub, or any other service of your choice, get
traction and grow a community around your project.
As stated on the Apache Community Development website [1], our mission is:
"... However, because we believe that the Apache Way is, in fact, the
best way to manage a software project, we strive also to make these
artifacts releasable to the open source community as a whole."
so you are more than welcome to come back here at anytime asking
questions or seek advise and/or help on how to grow a community around
your project whether or not you will be bringing your project at later
time to the ASF.
[1] https://community.apache.org
[2] https://incubator.apache.org
[3] https://github.com/pgpainless/sop-java
[4] https://www.apache.org/theapacheway/index.html
[5] https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#developers
On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 3:31 PM Paul Schaub <vanitasvi...@fsfe.org> wrote:
Hey!
My name is Paul Schaub (vanitasvitae), I'm a free software developer
from Germany.
While I already know what the Apache Foundation is, this is my first
time engaging with Apache as an organization, so please bare with
me if
my mail is addressed to the wrong mailing list.
I'm working on an OpenPGP library for Java named PGPainless[1]. The
library is based on Bouncy Castle and aims to make the use of
OpenPGP as
painless as possible.
Now, there are some efforts going on to create a standardized OpenPGP
API called the Stateless OpenPGP Protocol[2]. The specification
describes a Command Line Interface application that offers a limited
subset of OpenPGP operations.
There are already some language-specific adaptions of this interface
available[3]. One of those is sop-java[4], a set of java
interfaces that
model the Stateless OpenPGP Protocol. The idea behind this module
is to
offer an implementation-independent set of interfaces, which can
then be
implemented by different OpenPGP libraries. For example, there is a
PGPainless-based implementation called pgpainless-sop[5].
Ideally I'd like sop-java to be moved away from the PGPainless
project,
to become an independent general API definition that other
implementations can implement. That would enable users of the API to
switch out the implementation as it suites them (similar to how
you can
choose from a variety of slf4j backends for logging).
Now the Apache project came to mind as a neutral entity to act as a
host/umbrella organization for sop-java. What do you think, is the
Apache foundation a good fit?
Let me know what you think :)
Paul
[1]: https://pgpainless.org
[2]:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-dkg-openpgp-stateless-cli-03
[3]:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-dkg-openpgp-stateless-cli-03#section-7
[4]: https://github.com/pgpainless/sop-java
[5]:
https://github.com/pgpainless/pgpainless/tree/master/pgpainless-sop
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Thanks
- Mohammad Noureldin
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"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving"
- Albert Einstein
