I obviously vote +1, too. :-)
On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 13:14 +0200, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: > 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
