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Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 08:06:12 +0000
From: "James Strachan" <james.strachan@gmail.com>
To: general@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Open JPA
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Awesome! This is great news - welcome! :)

James

On 3/8/06, Patrick Linskey <plinskey@bea.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Below is a proposal to incubate an Open JPA project at Apache. I've also
> posted this at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenJPAProposal.
>
> Much thanks to Eddie O'Neil, Geir Magnusson, Brian McAllister, Dain
> Sundstrum, and David Blevins for helping me put this proposal together.
>
> -Patrick
>
>
> <snip>
>
> Patrick Linskey (plinskey at bea dot com) and Eddie O'Neil (ekoneil at
> apache dot org)
>
> Project Proposal
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> Open JPA will be an ASL-licensed implementation of the Java Persistence
> API
> (JPA) which is defined as part of JSR-220.
>
> Rationale
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> We think that Open JPA is something that will benefit from wide
> collaboration, being able to build a community of developers and
> committers that outlive the founders, and that will be embraced by other
> Apache efforts, such as the Geronimo project as part of an EJB 3.0
> container. Given the existing momentum forming behind JPA even at this
> early stage, we are confident that an industrial-grade ASL
> implementation of JSR220 will attract a diverse community.
>
> Criteria
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> :Meritocracy:
> The Open-JPA committers recognize the desirability of building software
> as a
> meritocracy and look forward to growing a healthy community of
> developers to
> enhance the JPA APIs.
>
> :Community:
> The proposed committer community is includes members of the BEA JPA
> team and several individuals from the Apache community.
>
> :Core Developers:
> Fourteen of the initial committers are BEA employees. One of those is a
> committer on the Apache JDO project. We anticipate that five of these
> fourteen will be involved in the core code development, and the other
> nine will be involved in documentation and ongoing QA for the project.
>
> Three of the initial committers are committers on the Geronimo project.
> Two are IBM employees involved in the WebSphere product team. One is
> from Intel.
>
> :Alignment:
> Open JPA will be a candidate for use in Geronimo as the default JPA
> implementation. Other projects that have general-purpose JPA needs may
> be
> users of the Open JPA project.
>
> Open JPA has some level of alignment with the Apache DB project. In
> particular, the Open JPA codebase already includes support for Derby
> databases.
>
> JPA is for use in any Java application, not just J2EE. Therefore, any
> application that needs to do data persistence in the object/relational
> style (including any application that currently uses Hibernate) will
> benefit from Open JPA.
>
> :License:
> The existing codebase is owned by BEA and is subject to a proprietary
> license.  The applicable code will be relicensed under the Apache
> Software
> License 2.0.
>
> Avoiding the Warning Signs
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D
> :Orphaned products:
> Open JPA is a derivative of the basis of the BEA WebLogic Server (WLS)
> EJB3 JPA implementation, and so is an important piece of the BEA code
> base.
>
> As this is a very eagerly anticipated specification for the Java
> community,
> we expect that this project will continue to grow and develop within its
> own
> community, and be embraced by other open source projects (such as
> Geronimo)
> as well.
>
> :Inexperience with open source:
> The authors of the existing code (who will be part of the initial
> committer
> list) have experience with open source development already, in both
> professional and personal contexts. Examples: serp
> (http://serp.sourceforge.net) (used in Kodo currently), sqlline and
> jline
> (http://sqlline.sourceforge.net and http://jline.sourceforge.net) (used
> by
> the Kodo development team, and used by the Apache JDO team), Growl
> (http://growl.info).
>
> Four of the initial committers have extensive experience within the
> Geronimo project, among other open-source projects.
>
> :Homogeneous developers:
> The members of the initial committer list have been working in a
> distributed, multi-national, asynchronous environment for the last five
> years, while working at SolarMetric. We had a team of up to 7 people
> working
> from 6 different locations over the course of the last five years.
>
> :Reliance on Salaried Developers:
> <Explain how the project can exist without relying on someone to pay the
> committers working on it>
>
> Most of the developers are paid by their employer to contribute to this
> project, but given the anticipation from the Java community for the a
> JPA
> implementation and the committers' sense of ownership for the code, the
> project would continue without issue if no salaried developers
> contributed
> to the project.
>
> :No ties to other Apache products:
> Open JPA will likely be used by Geronimo, requires some Apache products
> (regexp, commons collections, commons lang, commons pool), and supports
> Apache commons logging.
>
> :A fascination with the Apache brand:
>
> We think that Open JPA is something that will benefit from wide
> collaboration, being able to build a community of developers and
> committers
> that outlive the founders, and that will be embraced by other Apache
> efforts, such as the Geronimo project.
>
> Scope of Subprojects
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> No subprojects proposed.
>
> Initial Source
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> BEA Systems, Inc. will contribute the initial core source code for
> implementing JPA.
>
> ASF Resources to be Created
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D
>
> Mailing lists:
> open-jpa-dev@
> open-jpa-commits@
> open-jpa-ppmc@ (with moderated subscriptions) open-jpa-user@
>
> SVN Repository:
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/open-jpa
>
> JIRA:
> Open-JPA (OPEN-JPA)
>
> Initial Committers
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> Abe White (awhite at bea dot com)
> Marc Prud'hommeaux (mprudhom at bea dot com)
> Patrick Linskey (plinskey at bea dot com)
> Pinaki Poddar (pinaki dot poddar at bea dot com)
> Steve Kim (stkim at bea dot com)
> Seetharam Param (sparam at bea dot com)
> Reena Mathew (rmathew at bea dot com)
> Jacob Thomas (jthomas at bea dot com)
> Ajay Prabhu (aprabhu at bea dot com)
> Sathish Santhanam (sathish at bea dot com)
> Maruthi Nuthikattu (maruthi at bea dot com)
> Anurag Bahl (abahl at bea dot com)
> Mihir Kulkarni (mihirk at bea dot com)
> Srinivasa Segu (srinivasa dot segu at bea dot com)
> Greg Campbell (gcamp at yjsinc dot com)
> Eric Lindauer (e_lindauer at yahoo dot com)
> Gianny Damour (gianny dot damour at optusnet dot com dot au)
> Matt Hogstrom (matt at hogstrom dot org)
> David Jencks (djencks at apache dot org)
> Kevin Sutter (kwsutter at gmail dot com)
> David Wisneski (wisneskid at gmail dot com)
> Geir Magnusson Jr (geirm at apache dot org)
>
> Sponsor
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> We kindly request the Incubator PMC to accept sponsorship for this
> proposal.
>
> Champion
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> Geir Magnusson, Jr. (geirm at apache dot org)
>
> Mentors
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> Eddie O'Neil (ekoneil at apache dot org)
> Brian McAllister (brianm at apache dot org)
> Geir Magnusson, Jr. (geirm at apache dot org)
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