[Hibernate] Becoming an official XDoclet module

[Joel Rosi-S. <Joe...@Et...>]

I know that this has come up before in the forum and dev list, but I 
think it is worth re-evaluation. I just did an experiment of adding the 
hibernate module to the latest XDoclet cvs source. It took all of 5 
minutes to integrate the module into the Xdoclet build. The results were 
as I expected; the build went smoothly and all of the documentation was 
produced without any pain. So I am wondering if maintaining the 
Hibernate module seperately is really worth the extra pain and effort 
that is required.

As I understand it the main consideration is not having a maintainer for 
the module that has commit priviledges on the XDoclet project. I agree 
that handling changes via patches is awkward. So what does it take to 
get accepted as a module and as a commiter to the Xdoclet project? If I 
had assurances that Gavin and Ara were both willing to give me a bit of 
support as needed, I would be willing to take on being the maintainer.

- joel