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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:16:46 -0800
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Henri Yandell wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
> 
>> Today a new JSR was officially announced  :
>>
>> http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=291
>>
>> As you can see, this is for OSGi.
>>
>> I've told IBM that we support the JSR, and will participate in the
>> Expert Group.
>>
>> Please volunteer if you are interested in representing the ASF on this
>> EG.
>>
>> I've CC-ed felix-dev.  Please don't crosspost, but discuss on
>> jcp-open@apache.org
> 
> 
> Have you heard anything back from Felix?
> 
> There seems to be a general philosophical discussion happening between
> yourself and Dain each time over how the ASF should approach JCP issues
> - which to a large extent seem to boil down to a 'Deny All - then Allow'
> or a 'Allow All - then Deny' pair of firewall like philosophies.
> 
> Other than that though, not seeing much discussion.

I have not heard any discussion as to the merit of this or otherwise on
Felix. All I know is that Richard Hall, the developer of the code upon
which Felix is based, and a significant Felix committer, is
independently mentioned on the JSR.

Upayavira