On 7/26/07, Martin Marinschek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi *, > > we have a situation over at the MyFaces project which is a pretty > straightforward code-grant. > > Oracle wants to donate the code of a JSF-portlet-bridge which would > fit well with MyFaces. We do already have some bridge code at MyFaces, > but it is not as complete as this donation would be, and it doesn't > comply to the corresponding standard. > > The possibly donated jsf-portlet-bridge is the reference > implementation of JSR-301 - it would fit well for several projects at > the ASF to have this code ASL licensed. It is important relating to > recent discussions on jcp-open to say that Scott O'Bryan has said the > bridge-team will try everything to release the according TCK under the > ASL license as well. > > In comparison to the recent incubation projects in MyFaces, which are > ADF-Faces --> Trinidad and the Rich Client Framework the codebase is > not very large and would not need any community building around it nor > would it be necessary to bring an existing community to the ASF - as > already 4 members of the MyFaces community know the ins and outs of > this or similar bridges and can easily take over the code and maintain > it (and there is sufficient interest to do so). Scott O'Bryan, one of > the existing developers of the bridge at Oracle, is also a MyFaces > committer. > > So in our understanding, incubation is not necessary, as no community > needs to be incubated. If there are any objections, though, we'll > certainly rethink this point of view - this is why I'm asking for > comments here.
sounds like a straightforward software grant to me - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
