[RESULT][VOTE][PROPOSAL] Migrate Project Yoko from Incubator to Geronimo / CXF

[Daniel Kulp <dk...@apache.org>]

This vote has been open for 4 days now.   Thus, I'm going to close it.

There were 13 +1 votes and 1 0 vote 

+1: dkulp, jstrachan, bmargulies, jgenender, apaibir, ubhole, pjones, 
blin, ningjiang, ffang, ema, jmao, jliu
0:   gmazza

Thus, this vote passes.   Off to the IPMC for final approval. 

Dan


On Thursday 06 December 2007, Daniel Kulp wrote:
> This discussion has been open for a week now so I think we should go
> ahead and call the vote.
>
> Basically, we are voting on the CXF parts of the proposal of accepting
> the WS binding and tooling from the Yoko project.
>
> Here is my +1
>
>
>
> Dan
>
> On Friday 30 November 2007, Matt Hogstrom wrote:
> > The members of project yoko have been considering the future of Yoko
> > as a project.  There have been several milestones delivered and the
> > project is used by other ASF projects.   The project is not as
> > active as other ASF projects and it makes sense to move the code
> > from Yoko to other projects.  The Yoko team has the following
> > proposal for your consideration.
> >
> > Proposed Code Donation from Project Yoko to Apache CXF and Apache
> > Geronimo
> >
> > The Yoko community has been successful in delivering several
> > milestones of the ORB implementation while in the Apache Incubator.
> > These milestones are used by other Apache projects (namely Geronimo
> > and Harmony) to support their releases.  The WebServices bindings
> > are dependent on CXF.  The Yoko community has decided that the Yoko
> > project does not have quite the momentum to carry itself as an
> > independent project but has sufficient value for other projects for
> > them to consider receiving the code and committers for that
> > code-base as sub-projects.  Since the code under consideration is
> > used by Apache Geronimo, Apache CXF and Apache Harmony the movement
> > of the code should continue to allow for independent releases so the
> > code can be easily shared with other dependent projects.
> >
> > The proposed division is:
> >
> > yoko-spec-corba - this is the org.omg interface classes.
> > rmi-spec - this is the javax.rmi spec implementation
> > core - This is the actual ORB implementation.
> > rmi-impl - This is the implementation of the RMIIIOP support.
> >
> > These modules are also used by Harmony.
> >
> > In addition to the code we propose that the following committers in
> > Apache Yoko be accepted as committers in Apache Geronimo given their
> > demonstration of delivering code, creating releases and functioning
> > as a community.  Those noted with asterisks are already Geronimo
> > committers.
> >
> > Continued involvement with the core:
> >
> > Rick McGuire *
> > David Jencks *
> > Alan Cabrera  *
> > Lars Kuhne
> > Alexey Petrenko
> > Darren Middleman
> >
> > The remainder of the modules in Yoko are part of the webservices
> > support and are independent of the underlying ORB implementation.
> >
> > api -- interface classes used for the web services support.
> > bindings -- code to implement the CORBA-Web services bindings.
> > tools -- tools for generation WSDL and IDL for the bindings
> > maven-plugin -- some maven plugins that can use the tools for
> > generating binding-related build artifacts.  None of the
> > maven-plugin code is used by the ORB.
> >
> > There is also a distribution directory with some sample
> > applications. One set of samples demonstrates using the core ORB,
> > the other set is for WebServices.  We recommend that the
> > distribution directory should move to Apache CXF as the webservices
> > examples use the orb samples to bind them as web services.  Since
> > Apache Geronimo's only use of CORBA is for exporting EJBs, these
> > samples are not particularly valuable for Geronimo.
> >
> > The Yoko community did not have any committers that expressed an
> > interest in continuing work on these bindings.  As such, only the
> > code would be moving to apache CXF.



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