Re: [PROPOSAL] Migrate Project Yoko from Incubator to Geronimo / CXF

> Thanks Matt.
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> It seems that no one objects.  Is the next step to have the  
> recipient PMCs vote on receiving the code and developers?
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> Regards,
> Alan
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> On Nov 30, 2007, at 9:54 AM, Matt Hogstrom wrote:
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>> The members of project yoko have been considering the future of  
>> Yoko as a project.  There have been several milestones delivered  
>> and the project is used by other ASF projects.   The project is not  
>> as active as other ASF projects and it makes sense to move the code  
>> from Yoko to other projects.  The Yoko team has the following  
>> proposal for your consideration.
>>
>> Proposed Code Donation from Project Yoko to Apache CXF and Apache  
>> Geronimo
>>
>> The Yoko community has been successful in delivering several  
>> milestones of the ORB implementation while in the Apache  
>> Incubator.  These milestones are used by other Apache projects  
>> (namely Geronimo and Harmony) to support their releases.  The  
>> WebServices bindings are dependent on CXF.  The Yoko community has  
>> decided that the Yoko project does not have quite the momentum to  
>> carry itself as an independent project but has sufficient value for  
>> other projects for them to consider receiving the code and  
>> committers for that code-base as sub-projects.  Since the code  
>> under consideration is used by Apache Geronimo, Apache CXF and  
>> Apache Harmony the movement of the code should continue to allow  
>> for independent releases so the code can be easily shared with  
>> other dependent projects.
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>> The proposed division is:
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>> yoko-spec-corba - this is the org.omg interface classes.
>> rmi-spec - this is the javax.rmi spec implementation
>> core - This is the actual ORB implementation.
>> rmi-impl - This is the implementation of the RMIIIOP support.
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>> These modules are also used by Harmony.
>>
>> In addition to the code we propose that the following committers in  
>> Apache Yoko be accepted as committers in Apache Geronimo given  
>> their demonstration of delivering code, creating releases and  
>> functioning as a community.  Those noted with asterisks are already  
>> Geronimo committers.
>>
>> Continued involvement with the core:
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>> Rick McGuire *
>> David Jencks *
>> Alan Cabrera  *
>> Lars Kuhne
>> Alexey Petrenko
>> Darren Middleman
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>> The remainder of the modules in Yoko are part of the webservices  
>> support and are independent of the underlying ORB implementation.
>>
>> api -- interface classes used for the web services support.
>> bindings -- code to implement the CORBA-Web services bindings.
>> tools -- tools for generation WSDL and IDL for the bindings
>> maven-plugin -- some maven plugins that can use the tools for  
>> generating binding-related build artifacts.  None of the maven-
>> plugin code is used by the ORB.
>>
>> There is also a distribution directory with some sample  
>> applications.  One set of samples demonstrates using the core ORB,  
>> the other set is for WebServices.  We recommend that the  
>> distribution directory should move to Apache CXF as the webservices  
>> examples use the orb samples to bind them as web services.  Since  
>> Apache Geronimo's only use of CORBA is for exporting EJBs, these  
>> samples are not particularly valuable for Geronimo.
>>
>> The Yoko community did not have any committers that expressed an  
>> interest in continuing work on these bindings.  As such, only the  
>> code would be moving to apache CXF.
>>
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