Re: Incubating Chemistry (Was: IP clearance for the Chemistry contribution)

[Florent Guillaume <fg...@nuxeo.com>]

On 16 Apr 2009, at 15:38, Jukka Zitting wrote:
> Our original plan for the CMIS efforts was to manage them as organic
> growth within Jackrabbit, essentially developing the code in the
> Jackrabbit sandbox and inviting CMIS contributors as Jackrabbit
> committers based on their contributions.
>
> However, it seems that with quite a bit of interest around this and
> with the codebase and potential committers having just a little
> overlap with Jackrabbit core, it might be better to take the effort to
> the Apache Incubator where the codebase and related community can
> evolve more freely without being bound too tightly to Jackrabbit.
>
> So, I've created a skeleton proposal [1] for "Apache Chemistry", a
> project that would be based on the Chemistry code developed at Nuxeo
> and the JCR-CMIS code in the Jackrabbit sandbox. Feel free to edit the
> proposal and mark yourselves as initial committers if you're
> interested in participating. See [2] for more background on what the
> proposal is expected to contain and how we should move forward with
> it. I'm volunteering to mentor the project.
>
> [1] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ChemistryProposal
> [2] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/proposal.html


Thanks for the initial set up Jukka.
I'll add more stuff to the wiki today.

Florent

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