On 6/30/06, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
robert burrell donkin wrote: > On 6/30/06, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip> > > One thing that bothers me is that there is a very small handful of ASF >> people >> (committers and members) participating in standards efforts. > > perhaps one way to reduce the friction would be for somene to add a FAQ > somewhere in the apache documentation about the right way to go about this. Better yet, www.apache.org/standards.html to explain in in general with some pages on related implementations of RFC's, JSR's etc etc ad nasum. If each body, JSCs, IATA wgs, W3C wgs each were given a page with 'standards implemented by project', and 'standards reference implementations', and finally several paragraphs with pointers to the relevant information about participating in that standards body, that would really rock.
pages tend to be collected within directories so probably www.apache.org/dev/standards.html would be a better location but sounds good. knowing which projects are (reference) implementations of which standards is an issue we need to address more generally probably by using DOAP and projects.apache.org. And I have two days of my life free between now and September :( But I'd
sure try to accomplish the draft IETF page and get the right people to write the right descriptions and provide FAQ pointers, while I'd work to collect what the relation of IETF standards are to our projects. Once that's done, that's about all I can commit to.
sounds good hopefully the relationships could be entered in the DOAPs which the projects maintain for the future. But if others would jump on the relevant W3C and JSR pages and begin
collecting that in a 'big way' on our foundation site, this could be very interesting and informative for our contributor and user communities.
+1 any volunteers want to jump and grab one? - robert
