One of the main motivations for moving Struts to a TLP was the fact that as a TLP Struts can have sub-projects - each with their own release cycle. The plan was/is to split Struts into modules/components such as core, tiles, tags etc. - and then hopefully releasing new component versions would be easier/quicker since changes wouldn't have to wait until the whole of struts was ready for a release.
An important part of this has also been the recent change moving the Struts source repository from CVS to SVN. SVN has better facilities for re-organising as artifacts can be moved around without loosing their history. http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg02104.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00714.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg21827.html Niall ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Germuska" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 2:14 PM Subject: Re: How Jakarta Struts become Apache Struts > 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 > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Joe Germuska > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://blog.germuska.com > "In fact, when I die, if I don't hear 'A Love Supreme,' I'll turn > back; I'll know I'm in the wrong place." > - Carlos Santana --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
