Niall Pemberton wrote: > Theres more of an issue IMO with projects that don't come thru the > incubator, since they don't have to meet the Incubator's stringent > graduation requirement. As an example - Tapestry was pushed out to a > TLP from Jakarta,[...]
Jakarta is disintegrating. All big projects have gone TLP, there are two or three more that might just make it. The rest is too inactive, because of maturity or disinterest, to stand on their own. There have been discussions every few months on how to revive inactive projects, and sending them back into the incubator was one of the options. Not that it matters much, I don't remember any that picked up enough interest. Now the projects that are still active but have only a small developer community - too small for Incubator standards for sure - are caught between a rock and a hard place. There are users out there, and the code has seen many official releases. Going into the Incubator and making unofficial "incubating" releases from there is not a preferred option. Going TLP with just enough PMCs to collect three binding votes during holiday season creates TLPs with a very high dependency on very few people. Projects which are an issue. Staying at Jakarta will buy some time, but won't last forever. If you have ideas on what to do with these small but active projects, please come over to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and share your thoughts. The two examples I have in mind are HttpComponents and JMeter, but there may be others: http://jakarta.apache.org/httpcomponents/index.html http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/index.html cheers, Roland --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
