Stefan Thank you for you insights and response.
Maybe the interesting question is whether you think - based on your experience - if is is really appropriate to try to create a JCP RI as an Apache incubator project? Paul On Feb 1, 2008 11:11 AM, Stefan Hepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > here my response to Endre's mail > (http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/200801.mbox/[EMAIL > PROTECTED]): > > about Pluto V 1.x: > Due to the JCP process guidelines at that time you could not have early > public drafts and thus you are correct that the RI got to Apache very > late. However, we discussed this with people from Apache and we also > went through the incubation process. It would have always been an option > to not accept the project. > It is not true that after the JSR was final everything stopped. In fact > once we had finished 1.0 there was still work done to get to a more > stable 1.0.1 release. After that the pluto community re-structed the > code which led to the pluto 1.1 stream, so you can see that it was an > active community not only some code drop. > Also in my view pluto was a success, take a look at all the projects > using the pluto container: http://portals.apache.org/pluto/powered.html. > > about JSR 286/Pluto 2.0: > Besides myself there are 4 people from Apache projects sitting in the > JSR 286 EG and now that the JCP supports early public drafts we > published early drafts more than a year ago and started the development > of 2.0 directly at Apache. It is also based on the new 1.1 codestream > that the Apache community created. > > I think you should also consider the view points of companies donating > work and code to Apache. In my opinion it would have been much cheaper > for IBM to just put the RI out there on some server instead of going to > Apache. We went to Apache because we wanted the portlet standard to be > widespread and easy to adopt by everyone. > > > Regards, > Stefan > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- 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]
