J Aaron Farr wrote: > On 1/10/06, David E. Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>We are all looking forward to your comments and desire to express in >>advance appreciation for all that you have done and are doing for the >>open source world and the software world in general through your >>efforts in the Apache Software Foundation. > This proposal has caught my interest. I'd be willing to help mentor. Great:-) > A couple of points: > The proposal says that this project is to be sponsored by the ASF > Board. Is that correct? Did the Board already +1 on or are we still > searching for a sponsoring entity? The board response was along the lines of "why is this here?", so I guess the Incubator PMC should be the sponsoring entity if there is to be one. > Apache has generally stayed away from end user applications and > instead focuses on infrastructure and middleware. That's not > completey true, but is a good rule of thumb. For example, a lot of > contributors and supporters of the ASF use our code to create > ecommerce products. I'm a little worried that some may view this > proposal as the ASF attempting to compete with these contributors. I think we should look at whether this project is a good fit for the ASF (I think so, or I wouldn't have mentioned the idea to them) rather than if we are stepping on someone's toes. Geronimo steps on toes. Harmony does to some degree, as well. Once upon a time, people sold web servers, and httpd stepped on their toes. And for what it's worth, the problems that OFBiz attempts to solve are hard, and there is a lot of room for competitors - both those that build other systems as well as those that build on top of OFBiz. JIRA, for instance, is built on top of code from the OFBiz guys. -- David N. Welton - http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Linux, Open Source Consulting - http://www.dedasys.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
