[jira] Closed: (COMMONSSITE-19) Project Proposal: Physics / Measuring

["Matt Benson (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMMONSSITE-19?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Matt Benson closed COMMONSSITE-19.
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    Resolution: Invalid

With regard to creating new commons components, I'd say you were misinformed when a list member suggested you enter these as JIRA issues.  Please see:  http://commons.apache.org/oldcharter.html for a rough idea of the process by which a new component could be started in Commons (by somone who is not already an ASF committer).  Further, on this proposal you've already had on-list feedback from two Commons PMC members suggesting that this package, while wholly worthwhile in concept, would represent--as far as we can tell--a duplication of effort wrt > 1 existing package, so contributing to those efforts might be a better use of your time.  It's hard to perceive any benefit to starting a competing effort in Apache Commons.  I realize you had entered this issue before receiving PMC feedback, so please don't read this as you being scolded for following through on the advice you were given to create a JIRA issue.

br,
Matt

> Project Proposal: Physics / Measuring
> -------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COMMONSSITE-19
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMMONSSITE-19
>             Project: Commons All
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>         Environment: Java 5.0 and higher, all platforms
>            Reporter: Matt Rothe
>
> The measuring project is a physics related library containing classes for all sorts of measuring units, their prefixes and measurables, objects that take a subtype of Number and a measuring unit.
> Those measurables will be capable of converting themselves into target measurables of the same or a related measuring unit. Say you have an object of the measurable type meters and want to convert it to miles. All you would need to do is passing the meters object the desired measuring unit and prefix and you'd get a new measurable of the target unit and prefix and the converted value.
> Furthermore all measurables, measuring units and prefixes will be able to tell their names (and values) in a locale sensitive way, either abbreviated (e.g. km) or fully (e.g. kilometer).

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