Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-xml-forrest-dev-archive@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 72817 invoked by uid 500); 11 Dec 2002 08:25:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact forrest-dev-help@xml.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Reply-To: forrest-dev@xml.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list forrest-dev@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 72808 invoked from network); 11 Dec 2002 08:25:13 -0000 Received: from horkos.telenet-ops.be (195.130.132.45) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 11 Dec 2002 08:25:13 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by horkos.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 91A40842DC for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 09:25:24 +0100 (CET) Received: from outerthought.org (D5E00A87.kabel.telenet.be [213.224.10.135]) by horkos.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65A9384352 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 09:25:24 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3DF6F674.2050601@outerthought.org> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 09:25:24 +0100 From: Steven Noels Organization: Outerthought User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: forrest-dev@xml.apache.org Subject: Re: module.xml References: <3DF4E36D.70804@outerthought.org> <20021210052317.GB4027@expresso.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20021210052317.GB4027@expresso.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Jeff Turner wrote: > xml-forrest means to us, "The Apache XML Project's Forrest subproject". > > But to newcomers, how obvious is that association? I think most will see > the 'xml-' and expand the name to "Extensible Markup Language Forrest", > which doesn't make much sense. > > Besides which, I think the official project name (in the credit logo) is > "Apache Forrest".. Yes - but we belong to the 'federation' of xml.a.o projects. If you look at http://cvs.apache.org/builds/gump/latest/, forrest is somehow alienated from the rest of the pack. -- Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center Read my weblog at http://radio.weblogs.com/0103539/ stevenn at outerthought.org stevenn at apache.org