Would Jakarta like to adopt MaybeUpload?

[Simon Brooke <si...@jasmine.org.uk>]

Hi

Introduction: About MaybeUpload

<URL: http://www.weft.co.uk/library/maybeupload/ >

I wrote MaybeUpload, a package to make it easy to write Servlets which can do 
RFC 1867 style file upload, about two years ago, and immediately announced it 
on Freshmeat as an open source project (BSD license). In March 2002 the 
Cocoon project asked me if they could include MaybeUpload in the Cocoon 2 
distribution, and of course I said I'd be delighted. As far as I'm aware it 
is still the only open source RFC 1867 compliant Servlet package available.

I now think MaybeUpload is now pretty much stable - it is after all a fairly 
simple piece of functionality. It's to everyone's benefit if it is widely 
used, because it means that other people don't have to reinvent this 
particular wheel, and more improvements will feed back into the codebase. I 
feel it would be likely to get more users if it were an official Apache 
project.

I'm not wishing to hand over or end-of-life MaybeUpload - I'm quite happy to 
continue to be a or even the maintainer, but I'm equally happy to share 
repsonsibility with others.

Fit with the Jakarta criteria

Community

MaybeUpload has a mailing list (which isn't very active - I hope because the 
thing just works and there isn't much to discuss) and has had bug fixes and 
feature improvements submitted by about a dozen people. I've generally 
accepted other people's fixes into the codebase provided I've been happy that 
they do something useful and don't break anything else, and have announced 
new releases both on the mailing list and on Freshmeat.

Core Developers

Frankly MaybeUpload has been primarily a one-person project. It does not have 
three core developers.

Alignment with existing Apache subprojects

MaybeUpload is already used by the Cocoon project. However, it's not XML 
related, it's Servlet related, so it doesn't belong in xml.apache, and 
Jakarta looks a more natural home. MaybeUpload is relevent to Tomcat, and 
also to things like Struts and Turbine. MaybeUpload depends on 
Jakarta-RegExp.

Scope

MaybeUpload is a server side component in the Java language.

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simon@jasmine.org.uk (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

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