Meanwhile, the bar in different apache group seems different.
For example I think more than half committers in Apache Dobbo do not have
enough ability to be an ASF committer, if we use the bar we used in commons.

Xeno Amess <xenoam...@gmail.com> 于2022年4月23日周六 13:26写道:

> The bar to become an ASF committer is high.
> For example I am not an ASF committer yet, while I think I have the
> ability to be one, but nope until we meet some uncertain bar.
> And the bar is unclear to me, which is the worst part.
>
> Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> 于2022年4月22日周五 01:57写道:
>
>> What I mean is that Commons is open to any ASF committers, so the bar
>> to committing is super low. If you can handle the non-PMC-specific
>> parts of the release process (mainly having it all ready to run the
>> commands), then a PMC member can help with release signing and all
>> that. Volunteering to manage releases is a great way to get invited
>> into the PMC, too, so keep that in mind.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 10:36 PM Xeno Amess <xenoam...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > @Matt Sicker
>> >
>> > Like what I said before, there be no current active commons committers
>> who
>> > interested in developing bean-utils.
>> >
>> > For example, commons-math have sebb, commons-lang & text & vfs have
>> gary,
>> > commons-compress have peterAL, but seems nobody is interested in
>> > commons-beanutils
>> >
>> > Currently Gary maintains it, but he is busy, he maintains all
>> commons-lib.
>> > There be no enough time for him one person to maintain such a lib,
>> > especially a lib who lack lots of refines(considering comparing with
>> same
>> > utility in other libs, like what in Spring)
>> >
>> > So I really think it be good to have 1 or 2 new committers for
>> > maintaining commons-beanutils
>> >
>> > Melloware Inc <melloware...@gmail.com> 于2022年4月21日周四 09:57写道:
>> >
>> > > Matt,
>> > >
>> > > I totally agree.  I asked over and over for almost a year for a
>> release.
>> > >
>> > >  I understand the contributors are busy. I was submitting PRs that
>> were
>> > > not getting reviewed and merged.   I have a client that had 2
>> concerns…the
>> > > security findings and the fact it still used commons collections 3
>> instead
>> > > of 4.
>> > >
>> > > I literally tried everything to get this Jar released you can look
>> back
>> > > through the mailing list.  So I finally resorted to “I have no choice
>> but
>> > > to release this myself”.
>> > >
>> > >  I absolutely did NOT want to. But what else is the community to do
>> when
>> > > an open source library goes 5+ years between releases???
>> > >
>> > > Melloware
>> > > @melloware on GitHub
>> > >
>> > > > On Apr 20, 2022, at 8:09 PM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > I don’t see why that couldn’t have been done here. There’s no need
>> to
>> > > fork Commons projects when they’re fairly open to contributors.
>> > > >
>> > > > —
>> > > > Matt Sicker
>> > > >
>> > > >> On Apr 20, 2022, at 16:19, Melloware Inc <melloware...@gmail.com>
>> > > wrote:
>> > > >>
>> > > >> It was supposed to be temporary until Apache released 2.0.  It’s
>> been
>> > > over 5 years since last beanutils release so it’s a good thing I did
>> in my
>> > > opinion.
>> > > >>
>> > > >> Melloware
>> > > >> @melloware on GitHub
>> > > >>
>> > > >>>> On Apr 20, 2022, at 3:31 PM, Gary Gregory <
>> garydgreg...@gmail.com>
>> > > wrote:
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>> You are crearting jar hell by reusing the Apache package names
>> under
>> > > >>> different Maven coordinates. Not a good idea IMO.
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>> Gary
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>>>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022, 15:27 Melloware <melloware...@gmail.com>
>> > > wrote:
>> > > >>>>
>> > > >>>> I did not the package names are the same I did this because I had
>> > > >>>> multiple clients complaining about Commons Beantutils 1.9.4
>> security
>> > > >>>> vulnerabilities and needed a public version of the code so it
>> could be
>> > > >>>> scanned.  Whenever the REAL BeanUtils2 is ever released to Maven
>> > > Central
>> > > >>>> my clients can simply change their pom.xml back to org.apache
>> versions
>> > > >>>> and they are a drop in.
>> > > >>>>
>> > > >>>>
>> > > >>>>> On 4/20/2022 2:26 PM, sebb wrote:
>> > > >>>>> On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 at 18:54, Melloware <melloware...@gmail.com
>> >
>> > > wrote:
>> > > >>>>>> And and I have forked it and deployed to Maven Central
>> > > >>>>>>
>> > > >>>>>> <dependency>
>> > > >>>>>>  <groupId>com.melloware</groupId>
>> > > >>>>>>  <artifactId>commons-beanutils2</artifactId>
>> > > >>>>>>  <version>2.0.0</version>
>> > > >>>>>> </dependency>
>> > > >>>>>>
>> > > >>>>> Did you change the package names?
>> > > >>>>>
>> > > >>>>> If not, there will be problems in the future if a project
>> depends on
>> > > >>>>> both via different dependencies.
>> > > >>>>>
>> > > >>>>>> On 4/20/2022 10:12 AM, Xeno Amess wrote:
>> > > >>>>>>> Well I wonder should we give melloware (
>> > > https://github.com/melloware)
>> > > >>>> a
>> > > >>>>>>> committer permission.
>> > > >>>>>>>
>> > > >>>>>>> Since:
>> > > >>>>>>>
>> > > >>>>>>> 1. he has quite some experience here, not a fresh hand.
>> > > >>>>>>>
>> > > >>>>>>> 2. he has ability to write/review good codes.(already several
>> > > thousands
>> > > >>>>>>> lines in common-beanutils).
>> > > >>>>>>>
>> > > >>>>>>> 3. he has enough time and interest to refine beanutils. (This
>> is
>> > > the
>> > > >>>> most
>> > > >>>>>>> important, as it seems no committers want to develop
>> beanutils...)
>> > > >>>>>>>
>> > > >>>>>>> Any thoughts?
>> > > >>>>>>>
>> > > >>>>>>> Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> 于2022年4月20日周三 21:00写道:
>> > > >>>>>>>
>> > > >>>>>>>> There isn't one; we are all volunteers here ;-)
>> > > >>>>>>>>
>> > > >>>>>>>> There is probably clean up to do, PRs, Jiras, releasing and
>> > > synching
>> > > >>>> with
>> > > >>>>>>>> Commons Collections 4.5 first (probably).
>> > > >>>>>>>>
>> > > >>>>>>>> Gary
>> > > >>>>>>>>
>> > > >>>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022, 07:21 Martin Aldrin
>> > > >>>>>>>> <martin.ald...@ericsson.com.invalid> wrote:
>> > > >>>>>>>>
>> > > >>>>>>>>> Hi,
>> > > >>>>>>>>>
>> > > >>>>>>>>> I wonder what the time plan for release of beanutils2 is.
>> > > >>>>>>>>>
>> > > >>>>>>>>>
>> > > >>>>>>>>> /Martin
>> > > >>>>>>>>>
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