Sure. Add yourself to the proposal as a mentor. Thanks a lot for
offering help.
Best regards
Henning
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 22:52 +0300, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
> +1.
>
> In a crowded web frameworks space, I very much like Click's philosophy
> of trading off deeper abstractions for simplicity. Last time I used
> it, the impression was "nice and clean". Haven't used it lately
> (except for maintaining older projects). I hope it preserved that
> simplicity as the framework matured and grew up in scope (not an easy
> task I should say).
>
> Let me also sign up as a mentor. I may not be able to dedicate lots of
> time to that, but still I hope to be helpful every now and then.
>
> Andrus
>
>
> On Jul 2, 2008, at 10:29 PM, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote:
> > Please see also http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ClickProposal
> >
> > Comments until July 9th, if nothing blocking comes up, I'll CfV on
> > July
> > 10th.
> >
> > --- cut ---
> >
> > = Click Proposal =
> > This proposal specifies the migration of Click web application
> > framework
> > to the Apache Software Foundation as a Top Level Project.
> >
> > http://click.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > == Rationale ==
> > Click is a modern J2EE web application framework released under the
> > Apache License 2.0. It takes a component and page orientated
> > approach to
> > web applications with its main goals being ease of use and low barrier
> > to entry. A major difference between Click and other component
> > oriented
> > frameworks, is that Click is stateless by design, although stateful
> > pages are supported. It is an optimal framework, always trading off
> > bloating features to its main goals of simplicity. Another important
> > focus of the project has been to provide high quality documentation
> > and
> > examples to get people started as quickly as possible.
> >
> > We see Click becoming an Apache project as a logical step in its
> > evolution. Becoming part of the Apache community will increase
> > visibility and expose the framework to a larger community of
> > developers.
> >
> > === Current Status ===
> >
> > == Meritocracy ==
> > Click was developed by Malcolm Edgar in 2003 publicly released in
> > March
> > 2005. Since then there have been contributions from a number of
> > developers across the world. New contributors are encouraged to
> > provide
> > patches, and later commit privileges are assigned to them. In 2008 Bob
> > Schellink joined Malcolm Edgar as a joint lead on the project after
> > contributing to the project for a number of years.
> >
> > == Community ==
> > Click is a small but growing community of users and developers. Its
> > two
> > mailing lists receive around 200 messages per month.
> >
> > == Core Developers ==
> >
> > * Malcolm Edgar
> > * Bob Schellink
> > * Naoki Takezoe
> > * Ahmed Mohombe
> >
> > == Alignment ==
> > Click has already built up relationships with existing Apache projects
> > especially Velocity and Cayenne. Using Velocity as its default
> > rendering
> > engine, Click has formed a close relationship with the Velocity
> > community. Click also supports good integration with the Apache
> > Cayenne
> > ORM framework.
> >
> > == Known Risks ==
> >
> > * Orphaned Software: Click has a healthy community of users and
> > developers and has a very low risk of becoming orphaned. Experience
> > With
> > Open Source: Click was started as an open source project in 2005 and
> > has
> > remained so for 3 years.
> > * Homogeneous Developers: The community is very diverse with users
> > and developers from all over the world.
> > * Reliance on salaried developers: None of the Click developers are
> > compensated for their contributions. It is a complete voluntary
> > project.
> > * Relationships with Other Apache Products: As mentioned in the
> > Alignment section, Click has formed close relationships with Velocity
> > and Cayenne. Other Apache products used include commons-* and log4j.
> > * An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand: Although it is
> > true that the Apache Brand will increase visibility of the
> > framework, we
> > are more interested in building stronger relationships and influence
> > Apache projects such as Velocity.
> >
> >
> > == Scope of the project ==
> > Currently Click consists of the following parts: the core framework,
> > an
> > extras package for non core controls, an examples project and a quick
> > start project. There is also an Eclipse plugin called ClickIDE.
> >
> > == Initial Source ==
> > Click sources is available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/click
> >
> > == External Dependencies ==
> > There are some concerns over incompatible licensed libraries Click
> > depends on.
> >
> > * calendar.js is released under a LGPL licensed library from
> > http://www.dynarch.com/projects/calendar/
> > * Hibernate is released under a LGPL licensed library from
> > http://www.hibernate.org/
> > * HSQLDB is released under the license specified here:
> > http://hsqldb.org/web/hsqlLicense.html
> >
> >
> > == Required Resources ==
> >
> > == Mailing lists ==
> > Create new mailing lists
> >
> > * click-private
> > * click-dev
> > * click-user
> >
> >
> > == Subversion Directory ==
> > Migrate the current subversion code from sourceforge to Apache
> >
> > * https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/click
> >
> >
> > == Issue Tracking ==
> >
> > * Need to create a new JIRA project called CLICK for the Click
> > framework
> > * Migrate the current JIRA issue tracker from
> > http://www.avoka.com/jira/
> >
> >
> > == Other Resources ==
> > Need to create a new Confluence Wiki
> >
> > * CLICK
> >
> >
> > == Initial Committers ==
> > The initial committers for the project should include:
> >
> > * Malcolm Edgar
> > * Bob Schellink
> > * Naoki Takezoe
> > * Ahmed Mohombe
> > * Henning Schmiedehausen
> > * Will Glass-Husain
> > * Ted Husted
> >
> >
> > == Sponsors ==
> > === Champion ===
> >
> > * Henning Schmiedehausen
> >
> >
> > === Nominated Mentors ===
> >
> > * Will Glass-Husain
> > * Ted Husted
> >
> >
> > === Sponsoring Entity ===
> >
> > * Velocity
> >
> > --- cut ---
> >
> >
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