Hi,
I always had the impression that JaxMe and XML-RPC were the most inactive projects in the Apache world ... after browsing the mailing list archives of the listed projects, I do no longer think so.
I am unable to express opinions on any of these projects, though. Preferrably the project teams should decide, if possible. However, the following question is raised for me: How come, that so many projects are inactive?
I can think of many reasons for inactivity, not all of which are negative. For example, if a projects purpose is the implementation of a certain specification, then there may be a point, when the work is done. This may well happen for some project. In the case of SOAP, there obviosuly are successors. But still: Why so many?
It might help, if people with more insight than me could write some words on the particular projects. If so, we could possibly derive guidelines for the policy: When to establish a new project? When not?
Some things I could think of: - JSR implementations might possibly be located under a new umbrella project for specifications. (See the thread on "Starting a java specs project" on [EMAIL PROTECTED] from last month.) That umbrella project (if it will be established) will most definitely have a different characteristic than ws and be used to mostly inactive subprojects. - We should ask ourselves, how new subprojects are created. For example, a better idea might be to create a sandbox. New subprojects could be established in the sandbox. At some point, they might leave the sandbox. (This approach has worked well for Jakarta, I believe.) Jochen
