This vote will run until Monday, July 21st, 2008. [ ] +1 Accept Click for incubation [ ] 0 Don't care [ ] -1 Reject for the following reason:
------------ = 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-dev * click-private == 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 * Andrus Adamchik == Sponsors == === Champion === * Henning Schmiedehausen === Nominated Mentors === * Will Glass-Husain * Ted Husted * Andrus Adamchik === Sponsoring Entity === * Velocity ---------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
