In general, I would say that JXTA is more than welcome, if your community thinks that is the best course of action. I would guess that there is sufficient support in Incubator to bring you on as a podling.
I would presume that you have gone through the Incubator's docs, especially http://incubator.apache.org/guides/proposal.html In essence, securing a Champion is your first big challenge. Someone that will guide the initial steps and creating the proposal. The Champion might also help locating 3 Mentors, which will be the people helping the community understand the Apache Way and how we operate at a detailed level. One question; Apache License 1.0?? (or more like 1.1?) Although it allows sublicensing, if going sublicensing (to 2.0) I think you still need to retain the 1.0/1.1 requirements, such as the license text in the source. If you are working with Oracle on IP related to this, try and get a grant to relicense their IP rights (now under 1.0/1.1) to 2.0... Shouldn't make a difference to them. Cheers Niclas On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Jérôme Verstrynge <jvers...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Jérôme Verstrynge and I am new to this mailing list. I am the > lead for the latest release of JXTA/JXSE (see jxse.kenai.com), the P2P > framework project initiated by Sun Microsystem in 2001. Although JXTA/JXSE > is still used by GlassFish, Sun has been reducing its commitment to JXTA in > the past 2 years. This project is now supported by independant contributors > from different companies only. Around 20 people contributed to the last > release. We have enough material to initiate a new release process by the > end of this year. > > Our main pain point is the lack of quality and performance of Java.net > hosting. We have been investigating other solutions, including Kenai. To > make a long story short, we initiated a transfer to Kenai, but since the > Oracle aquisition, we have received no official confirmation about the > future of Kenai. We have received unofficial information about their > intentions, but in all cases, we should not expect something completely > operational before another year. Their initial commitment to support the > JXTA/JXSE transfert to Kenai is now systematically being postponed. We > experience that we are at the bottom of their priority list and they are not > capable of delivering upon their commitments. > > We have started discussions about the future governance of the project with > our representative at Sun/Oracle. We will get definitive and official > answers about Oracle's intentions regarding JXTA/JXSE this week. We > anticipate they will end all commitments to the project. > > One option is to move to ASF. Early discussions with our Oracle/Sun > representative revealed that Oracle won't block any fork of the project. We > are currently under a modified Apache 1.0 license and would consider moving > to the Apache 2.0 license. JXTA is a trademark from Sun/Oracle and we are > not sure we will be able to secure its usage. > > I have been taking a look at ASF projects, including those in the incubator, > and I can't find any P2P related project. My first question is: would ASF > consider an application from the JXTA/JXSE community? The purpose of this > email is to establish a first contact with you guys. > > This week, we will have a 'big' conference call with Oracle. Once official > information is communicated, we'll probably have a community discussion > followed by a vote about the future governance the JXTA/JXSE project. I am > anticipating that ASF will be given the priority, which is why I send you > this email. > > Cheers, > > Jérôme Verstrynge > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java I live here; http://tinyurl.com/2qq9er I work here; http://tinyurl.com/2ymelc I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
