I don't group all IBM'ers, really - I actually believe IBM'ers do tons
of good in many open source projects. Also I think IBM itself is a
somewhat good open source citizen in several regards.
But it is not individuals that propose this particular project, as I
understand it: it is IBM and BEA. And it was IBM that, in my view,
dumped the JSR 168 RI and then fled - not any individuals as such.
I don't agree with this, after the JSR 168 was final in Oct 2003 IBMers
continued to work on the RI to get to the 1.0.1 release.
I did still write comments and emails in 2004 / 2005.
After 1.0.1 was finished a discussion in the community started to
re-factor that code and create 1.1. It is true that the release of 1.1
took quite some time, but the discussions on the mailing list started
quite soon after 1.0.1 was out AFAIR.
Another thing to consider is that in order to really create a new
version with new portlet features you need to have a new JSR. In in that
case it took 2 years until V2.0 was started at the JCP.
I don't think Apache necessarily is the right place to dump a JSR RI and
TCK implementation (because, lets face that, it isn't *developed* here)
- it goes against the entire grain of Apache, AFAIU.
Technically only the version that is submitted to the JCP is the RI, so
in case of the Pluto it was the 1.0 code base from Oct 03.
If you compare that version to the current 1.1 driver I think the
project made a lot of progress in is much better usable now. This would
have not occurred if you would just host the code drop without development.
Also these development effort is now integrated into the new version 2.0.
At least, if it is put here, then just don't pretend that it more than
that either: It's just the RI and TCK implementations, staying at Apache
as Apache are good guardians of code on a general basis.
Thus, if it happens, this particular project's name shouldn't be
anything fancy, probably not include the name "Apache", maybe just be
JSR-235 with two subfolders: RI and TCK.
On the other side, some server implementing JSR-235 could be called
Apache What-Ever, would run its own incubation, have its own
infrastructure, possibly use the RI as a code starting point - but
nothing more. This would keep the distinction very clear. The goals
seems too different to mix.
Endre.
Stefan
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