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From: Dain Sundstrom <dain@iq80.com>
Subject: Re: Proposal: apache-wide specs project
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 15:58:46 -0800
To: dev@geronimo.apache.org

+1

-dain

On Nov 8, 2005, at 12:43 AM, David Jencks wrote:

> Many people have talked on and off about setting up an apache-wide  
> specs project.  With the recent move to separate our copies of the  
> specs and build them with maven 2 perhaps this is a good time to  
> try to get this started.
>
> Here are some steps we could take:
>
> -Identify projects with java spec implementations in them.  They  
> include at least:
>   geronimo
>   tomcat
>   pluto (have already expressed interest)
>   axis
>   scout (?)
>
> --Approach the projects to see if they are interested
>
> --Appropriate the M2 groupId org.apache.specs
>
> --Based on the support we get  proposing a new top level project.   
> This is going to be an unusual project in that it's expected that  
> changes will only take place when new specs come out :-)
>
> We could all start using the groupId org.apache.specs even before  
> an actual project was set up.  This might just cause confusion though.
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
> many thanks
> david jencks