Hi,The Sanselan podling [1] has been incubating since 2007 and has achieved most of the goals in incubation:
Code has been released [2] according to the incubator release guidelines Status is up to date [3] Community mailing lists are responded to promptly [5] JIRA issue tracking is in use [4] Web site with sample code and download is availableThe last item before graduation is activity and diversity, which are lacking. There were a few developers during the project but now we have only one active developer. And it's not clear that we will be able any time soon to attract more developers to fulfill the requirements.
While discussing Sanselan in the incubator, it appears that there are three end points for the podling:
1. Fail incubation and reject Sanselan 2. Continue (indefinitely?) to incubate Sanselan 3. Graduate Sanselan as a sub-project of another TLP It appears to many of us that option 3 is the best way forward. It also appears that Commons might be a good fit for the project. I have some questions to kick off a discussion:1. It appears that d...@commons is the general mailing list for all commons projects. Would a small project like sanselan get lost in the traffic?
2. Most commons components have a "functional" name instead of a "fun" name. Would Sanselan need to be renamed, e.g. Commons Image, or would it be ok to have the sub-project called Sanselan, or Commons Sanselan?
3. Would any changes be required from the existing packaging of Sanselan? For example, packages are named org.apache.sanselan. Would these need to be renamed to org.apache.commons.sanselan (or less fun name as above)?
If any additional oversight is needed to accept Sanselan, I'd be happy to contribute as PMC member.
Thanks, Craig References: [1] http://incubator.apache.org/projects/sanselan.html [2] http://incubator.apache.org/sanselan/site/index.html [3] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/sanselan/board/ [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SANSELAN [5] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-sanselan-dev/ Craig L Russell Architect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://db.apache.org/jdo 408 276-5638 mailto:craig.russ...@sun.com P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!
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