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From: Geir Magnusson Jr <geir@4quarters.com>
Subject: Re: Spring cleaning
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 17:49:20 -0300
To: dev@geronimo.apache.org

+1

On Apr 8, 2005, at 12:34 PM, Jeremy Boynes wrote:

> It has been a very long time since we went around and cleaned up some 
> of the things that seemed like good ideas at the time. I would like to 
> propose a spring-cleaning exercise.
>
> For example, if we look in the sandbox we moved a lot of things there 
> over a year ago on the basis that they might be useful later; this 
> includes mail, remoting and explorer which have all been implemented 
> differently in the trunk. I would suggest we remove everything from 
> there except Gianny's webdav stuff (unless he thinks that should go 
> too).
>
> There is also some utility stuff in the common, core and system 
> modules that is not being used and which can be removed to reduce 
> clutter and footprint.
>
> Finally, I'd like to revisit the dependencies we have. For example, I 
> recently came across the case where we were using a RC version of the 
> velocity jellybean but then they had cut the final release and we just 
> had not upgraded. We should go back and see if there are more 
> instances of this. We may also find that by removing some of the 
> clutter some dependencies can also be removed entirely.
>
> Any thoughts, objections, or additional stuff that could be cleaned up?
>
> --
> Jeremy
>
>
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Geir Magnusson Jr                                  +1-203-665-6437
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