--- Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/7/07, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > @Members: > > I have recently joined the development > > team of an OSS project, Morph, that captures the > > spirit of Jakarta commons-convert but where the > > convert project stagnated, Morph is a > well-evolved, > > though still not 100% complete, library whose > > development I feel would benefit greatly from The > > Apache Way and would make a worthy ASF project. > > Object conversion seems to be a woefully > under-served > > subject in the Java OSS space, despite the > ubiquity of > > the need for it (however well-hidden it may tend > to > > be) in enterprise Java development. I have > contacted > > a few of you personally already, but having > received > > no bites as yet I am widening my audience one last > > time before giving up on this. > > > > You can learn more about this library at: > > > > http://morph.sourceforge.net > > From looking at the "roles" document for incubator > the champion needs > to either be a member or on the Sponsoring PMC. Just > out of interest > do you have a plan for which PMC will sponsor - > incubator or maybe > Jakarta? Although you don't have to decide this > before entering the > incubator do the Morph developers have a preferred > destination if/when > they exit the incubator - e.g. their own TLP or part > of a project such > as Jakarta?
Hi Niall-- Since having joined the Morph team I would consider myself to be its secondary-but-currently-most-active developer, with the primary developer being content for the time being to let me take the reins on the issue of incubation @ ASF. I go into this level of detail here so it will be clear that this answer is mine, but that I feel I am justified in giving an answer I am coming up with as I go along. Obviously some thought has already gone into what might become of Morph after a successful incubation. My feeling is that as a replacement for/significant evolution beyond commons-convert, the Jakarta commons might indeed be an appropriate home. Because Morph's feature set extends somewhat beyond the original scope of commons-convert, however, I could foresee that some might consider it more appropriate as a direct Jakarta subproject. In either case jurisdiction would belong to the same PMC, IIUC, so I think "under Jakarta" is a sufficiently detailed answer for the moment, subject of course to the approval of the Jakarta community. This explains my posting to general@ rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED] Additionally, I was operating from the perspective that a final destination is moot until a champion is found, though I did realize on some level that the likely destination within Apache could to some degree dictate the likely championship candidates. br, Matt > > Niall > > > Thanks, > > Matt > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
