Re: How Jakarta Struts become Apache Struts

[Joe Germuska]

The Apache Software Foundation, which has ultimate authority and 
responsibility for projects developed anywhere within the Apache 
community, realized that the large size of the Jakarta community led 
to some difficulties in ensuring that all of the formalities (which 
are invisible to most Apache software users) were being handled 
correctly and completely.  As a remedy, Jakarta projects were invited 
to become "top level projects" (TLPs) at their discretion.  The 
Struts committers decided to make this change.  The Tomcat team has 
not.  (I have no idea if they even discussed it.)

Struts was not the first Jakarta project to move to TLP status; Ant, 
Avalon, James, Log4J, and Maven all made the move.  Similarly ,Cocoon 
moved out from being an "Apache XML" project to being a TLP.

I'm sure you could find much information in the 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list archives.  It doesn't really 
mean much to every day users of the software in any way.  In 
practice, it doesn't even mean much to committers, although now when 
I type "struts..." into the address bar of my browser before thinking 
about it, I get accurate auto-completed urls!

Joe
At 12:59 PM +0530 10/8/04, Antony Paul wrote:
Hi all,
   Why Struts got its own host in apache.org. Also it seems that it is
renamed from Jakarta Struts to Apache Struts. Is there any particular
reason for it ?. If popularity is the reason then why Tomcat is not
promoted ?
rgds
Antony Paul
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