On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Craig R. McClanahan wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:05:26 +0200 > > From: Nicola Ken Barozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] PMC Vote to incubate Directory Project > > > > Jochen Wiedmann wrote: > > ... > > > A word quite frequently used here is "community". Don't you think that > > > the communities of jakarta, db, or xml are worth being kept? They would > > > not even exist if anything were a top level project. > > > > Even if all Jakarta projects get top-level (which I doubt), Jakarta as a > > community can still remain. It is a place where Java developers can get > > together on common issues. Jakarta doesn't have to dite, it just needs > > to find it's own correct space, more about coordination ang getting > > together rather than being held accountable for a miriad of projects > > that it cannot possibly keep track of. > > > > > > It's not clear to me that Jakarta has much "community" itself. For > example, when Ant migrated to being a TLP, the net effect on me was > changing tree bookmarks (project home page and two mailing list archives > links). > > The only Jakarta-wide resource I'm familiar with is the [EMAIL PROTECTED] > mailing list. At one point, this had several thousand subscribers. A > couple of years ago, about the time some really virulent flame wars were > going on, the subscriber count quickly dropped to around 900. Today, > there are 772 subscribers, and it's pretty quiet. (For comparison, the > struts-user has 2700 and tomcat-user has 2300, and both are very active.) Do you think that the quietness of [EMAIL PROTECTED] is due to the TLP expansion? Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
