svn commit: r613517 - /httpcomponents/project/src/site/apt/charter.apt

[ro...@apache.org]

Author: rolandw
Date: Sun Jan 20 00:05:44 2008
New Revision: 613517

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=613517&view=rev
Log:
extended history

Modified:
    httpcomponents/project/src/site/apt/charter.apt

Modified: httpcomponents/project/src/site/apt/charter.apt
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpcomponents/project/src/site/apt/charter.apt?rev=613517&r1=613516&r2=613517&view=diff
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--- httpcomponents/project/src/site/apt/charter.apt (original)
+++ httpcomponents/project/src/site/apt/charter.apt Sun Jan 20 00:05:44 2008
@@ -79,13 +79,17 @@
   Since it generated a disproportional amount of traffic on the
   Commons mailing lists, HttpClient activity was moved to separate
   mailing lists. This started the dissociation of HttpClient from
-  Commons.
+  Commons, which continued when HttpClient was promoted to the
+  Jakarta subproject level in 2004.
+  The latter event is recorded as the oldest {{{./news.html}News}} item
+  of the HttpComponents project.
+
   The shortcomings in the design of HttpClient, as explained in the
   {{{./commons-httpclient-lessons.html}Lessons Learned}},
-  created interest in redesigning the API from scratch.
-  To that end, the Jakarta HttpComponents project was created in 2005.
-  The tasks of the new project were to develop a successor for
-  HttpClient 3.x and to maintain the existing codebase until the
+  created interest in redesigning the API from scratch. To that end, the
+  Jakarta HttpComponents project replaced the HttpClient project in 2005.
+  The new project was charged with the tasks of developing a successor
+  to HttpClient 3.x, and of maintaining the existing codebase until the
   new one is ready to take over.
 
   The {{{http://commons.apache.org/}Commons}}, cradle of HttpClient,
@@ -93,7 +97,7 @@
   Later in the same year, the HttpComponents project also left Jakarta
   to become an independent Top Level Project, taking the responsibility
   for maintaining HttpClient 3.x with it.
-  The TLP resolution is presented below.
+  Our TLP resolution is presented below.
 
 
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