On 3 Feb 2006, at 23:14, David Jencks wrote:
I'm trying to sort out the issues here. As I understand Sybase
wants to donate the code and keep working on it in a community
larger than the Sybase developers working on it :-)
It seems to me that depending where the code comes into Apache
different groups of people get to work on it from the start:
-- incubator headed to top level project. IIUC basically any
apache committer including all the servicemix developers and
perhaps others can join the project basically by saying they want to.
-- incubator headed to separate geronimo component. IIUC geronimo
committers can join the project easily, others less easily.
-- incubator as part of servicemix. IIUC servicemix developers
join with sybase developers. It's harder for others to join.
I'm not quite sure I've interpreted everything correctly but I
think that some people from apache ws are interested in working on
this project. If the above is accurate then incubator headed
towards top level project would most easily result in the largest
community. Conversely the "part of servicemix" option gives the
appearance of potentially excluding people who want to contribute.
I just wanted to jump in there. We've already got a large and
diverse group of commiters in ServiceMix and we are very open to new
contributions; our arms are wide open - we are not excluding people.
I don't think there is any difference in easy or exclusion in any of
the options you propose to folks wishing to join in and contribute.
James
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