Oh no, another Yoav at Apache ;) On Jan 15, 2008 12:21 PM, Paul Fremantle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yoav > > You find the mentor here by sending the note - just as you did. > > Let me make some comments. > > Firstly - Apache is about openness - so I encourage you to start to > tell us why this framework is better and why we should be interested > in it. > Secondly, the maturity of the project is not always a good thing from > the perspective of the incubator. The aim of the incubator is twofold. > One is to solve the IP issues around donated code. In your case, if > you are the sole author that will be quite smooth. The second issue is > to build a community of committers and developers who will ensure that > the project is healthy and vital. The problem is that if the project > is "done" then it can be hard to encourage involvement. Developers > like to have meaty tasks they can get involved with. > > As regards the XML project, that may be a good home for this, or you > may wish to eventually target a separate project. Without more details > about this code its hard to know what is appropriate. > > Regards, > Paul > > > On Jan 15, 2008 4:20 PM, Yoav Avrahami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I have a project which I have written and I am the sole owner of rights > > for which I think about opening as Open Source code. > > > > The project itself is in a very mature state, and has some clear > > advantages over all existing XML to Java mapping frameworks (both from > > Apache and Sun - XmlBeans, Jaxb 2, etc.) which I will not go into here. > > I am interested to know the process of opening such a project with > > Apache. > > > > > > > > The Incubator process seems quite confusing - I need to have a person > > (or persons) from the Apache foundation to help me write a proposal - > > but where do I find those persons? > > > > > > > > What about the Apache XML project - is it still active, or deprecated by > > the incubator? > > > > > > > > Any help will be most appreciated. > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Yoav. > > > > > > > > > > This message and the information contained herein is proprietary and > > confidential and subject to the Amdocs policy statement, > > you may review at http://www.amdocs.com/email_disclaimer.asp > > > > > > -- > Paul Fremantle > Co-Founder and VP of Technical Sales, WSO2 > OASIS WS-RX TC Co-chair > > blog: http://pzf.fremantle.org > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Oxygenating the Web Service Platform", www.wso2.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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