Nicola wrote:
> In any case, I'm now going to be the head of the Apache Incubator
> (incubator.apache.org) which is now really ramping up, with new helpers
> and rules [snip]
Well, congratulations! I did noticed that the Incubator site seemed to be
slowly filling up with projects over the past 6 months or so.
> I was wondering about the idea of moving to Apache for development and
> if it was still something that you guys were thinking about. In case,
> I'd be happy to help and see what can be done.
When this idea first came up it seemed like an interesting possibility but the
timing did not 'feel right' yet. We did not have a functional code base, TStik
and uVM were months away from being released and, at least from my perspective,
the IT support personnel that I envisioned as being the main people responsible
for deploying and maintaining Outposts did not have an easy way to configure
them.
Since that time, however, a functional code base has been released, TStik and
uVM are in production and JBasic is close to being available which will allow
IT support personnel to configure and maintain Outposts.
As I look at the current state of Embedlets, the main thing that I think we are
missing now are clients to drive its further development. Embedlets have
worked since Spring but without clients to use them they have mostly been
gathering dust (aside from the Persistence API that Chris has been integrating
into the code base).
At one point in time the JBoss community was mentioned as a possible home for
Embedlets and, since Outpost is primarily designed to communicate with J2EE
backend systems, this was one point that JBoss had over Apache. But now that
Apache has begun development on the Geronimo J2EE container, this issue has
been resolved.
In light of the above, I personally think that Embedlets are ready to move on
to start serving a client base and, after reflecting on this issue for a while,
I can not think of a more appropriate or symbiotic community for Embedlets to
belong to and serve than the Apache community.
And the Apache Incubator seems like it provides all of the support needed to
accommodate a reasonably easy transition should we choose to pursue this.
I would be open to having Nicola go ahead and officially approach the Apache
community and ask them what they think about the idea of bringing the Embedlets
project into the Apache Foundation.
What do other people think?
Ted
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