-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 After re-reading all the discussion threads and getting some technology education from people kind enough not to bash me on the bonce, my strong recommendation is that the Sybase contribution be made as a new podling proposal to the incubator.
That's after also considering the following: 1. The full expanded name of BPEL is 'Business Process Execution Language for Web Services;' 2. We have a TLP devoted to Web Services; and 3. A BPEL engine would be a component useful to a broader range of projects that just Geronimo. It just doesn't make sense to me to embed this into ServiceMix, which is intended to be embedded into the Geronimo project. The issues about who wants to work on it and their current distribution through ASF projects (namely, the claim that most of them are already working on the ServiceMix package) I don't see as being particularly relevant. Having the BPEL effort outside of ServiceMix is a better solution, IMHO, because 1. There's no barrier to ServiceMix people working on it; 2. There's less chance of accidental too-tight binding to the ServiceMix/Geronimo packages; 3. People working on it will see just messages relating to it, and not a bunch of UNrelated mail as well. That last one is pretty important, I think. I suspect that people from outside ServiceMix would be a bit daunted or put off at having to deal with the flux of ServiceMix-specific mail in order to see the BPEL-related messages which might be their sole interest. So: My recommendation is that a new proposal be drafted, and Sybase's BPEL contribution be subnmitted to the incubator as a new standalone podling. - -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Ken.Coar.Org/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBQ/DqMZrNPMCpn3XdAQI3EwP6Aj+Rlg5+8c4HwNm9rfN/PlCnN0QwDLu+ vCEYIZy7YsHQ0fr/7TNuN5Xn1M+xFtvhw4v4HMrVHhUYLnToyDtob/uyyIrcLpZR 1yH3krVSarHJobtoAiGh/Z9VBvIU/deGNqR7tpfL/3RvtG26HQlTiR/4tRXNCZbY a1xVRt2c34g= =ge/u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
