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List:       jakarta-general
Subject:    Re: adding a link from commons.apache.org to Jakarta Commons?
From:       "Andrew C. Oliver" <acoliver () apache ! org>
Date:       2006-03-23 23:53:45
Message-ID: 44233509.2010105 () apache ! org
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<joke>
Hey then there could be a commons-dev@commons.apache.org and ALL commons 
projects across the ASF could be developed on it!  I might even 
subscribe several times in order to load test my mail server ;-)
</joke>

-Andy

Henri Yandell wrote:
> 
> Now Martin's answer becomes very apt - something to sell across the ASF 
> and there will be push back. ie) Good luck.
> 
> However, I think it's not a bad idea. commons.apache.org as a Federation 
> for the various Commons projects around the ASF - even if I am 
> suggesting that J-C and J should start to merge into each other. 
> Assuming I'm understanding what you mean by virtual front.
> 
> The idea of a top level Commons is too much a disjoint umbrella. It 
> doesn't fit into the ASF; but the idea of a federation linking the 
> various Commons-like bits together does.
> 
> Slightly OT, we had someone email the J-C list very recently about a 
> .Net commons, but he's really talking about a semi-automated translation 
> of J-C to .Net. Those J-C libraries may not make entire sense on a new 
> platform.
> 
> Hen
> 
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote:
> 
>> Hmmm. Can we remove the useless blurb at the top and just have
>> commons.a.o rechartered to be a virtual front for commons.*.a.o?
>>
>> Sanjiva.
>>
>> On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 08:43 +0600, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote:
>>
>>> Excellent!
>>>
>>> Sanjiva.
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 19:44 -0500, Henri Yandell wrote:
>>>
>>>> Here you go:
>>>>
>>>> http://commons.apache.org/
>>>>
>>>> Hen
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Henri Yandell wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll give it a shot.
>>>>>
>>>>> A link from commons.apache.org to Jakarta Commons, XML Commons and 
>>>>> WS Commons
>>>>> seems pretty fair.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hen
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Martin Cooper wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 3/13/06, Sandy McArthur <sandymac@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I know Jakarta Commons isn't a TLP but considering the
>>>>>>> commons.apache.org space is vacant how about addins a blurb about 
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> Jakarta Commons.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You'd have to sell this idea across the ASF, not just at Jakarta, and
>>>>>> you'll
>>>>>> likely get more than a little push back. That space was also the 
>>>>>> realm of
>>>>>> Apache Commons when it existed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>> Martin Cooper
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's the convention that you use your domain as your package. The
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jakarta Commons code is in the package org.apache.commons, not
>>>>>>> org.apache.jakarta.commons. Also a number of times I've seen s stack
>>>>>>> trace and simply reveresed the package name parts and pasted it 
>>>>>>> into a
>>>>>>> browser in an attempt to find out more about the code.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm thinking a blurb at the bottom to the effect of:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <hr/>
>>>>>>> If you came here looking for Java code in the org.apache.commons
>>>>>>> packages then go see the <a
>>>>>>> href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/">Apache Jakarta Commons</a>
>>>>>>> page.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>>> Sandy McArthur
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "He who dares not offend cannot be honest."
>>>>>>> - Thomas Paine
>>>>>>>
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