Moving The Conversion Framework To Apache Commons

[Adrian Crum-2]

Apache Commons has just granted me karma to move our conversion framework to their sandbox, with the goal being to have it replace their abandoned Convert project.

I will be working on making our existing conversion framework code operate as a stand-alone library, and then get it committed to the Commons sandbox.

After the Commons PMC has had a chance to review it, and if they decide to make it a part of the Commons project, it would be great if anyone in the OFBiz community who is interested would participate in that project as well. I understand that there were concerns raised about a loss of control should the conversion framework be spun off to its own project, so I want to assure the community that I will do all I can to keep us involved in its development.

-Adrian



     

[Adam Heath-2]

Adrian Crum wrote:
> Apache Commons has just granted me karma to move our conversion framework to their sandbox, with the goal being to have it replace their abandoned Convert project.
>
> I will be working on making our existing conversion framework code operate as a stand-alone library, and then get it committed to the Commons sandbox.
>
> After the Commons PMC has had a chance to review it, and if they decide to make it a part of the Commons project, it would be great if anyone in the OFBiz community who is interested would participate in that project as well. I understand that there were concerns raised about a loss of control should the conversion framework be spun off to its own project, so I want to assure the community that I will do all I can to keep us involved in its development.

Adrian asked me last night if I would be interested in being a member
of this other project, and I agreed.  So there will be two of us in
the group, maintaining it.

[Jacques Le Roux]

Good news, thanks guys!

Jacques

From: "Adam Heath" <[hidden email]>

> Adrian Crum wrote:
>> Apache Commons has just granted me karma to move our conversion framework to their sandbox, with the goal being to have it
>> replace their abandoned Convert project.
>>
>> I will be working on making our existing conversion framework code operate as a stand-alone library, and then get it committed to
>> the Commons sandbox.
>>
>> After the Commons PMC has had a chance to review it, and if they decide to make it a part of the Commons project, it would be
>> great if anyone in the OFBiz community who is interested would participate in that project as well. I understand that there were
>> concerns raised about a loss of control should the conversion framework be spun off to its own project, so I want to assure the
>> community that I will do all I can to keep us involved in its development.
>
> Adrian asked me last night if I would be interested in being a member
> of this other project, and I agreed.  So there will be two of us in
> the group, maintaining it.
>

[Adrian Crum-2]

Just a quick FYI for anyone who is interested: The infrastructure has been set up. You can check it out here:

http://commons.apache.org/sandbox/convert/index.html

This will probably be my last mention of it here - I don't want to appear to be posting off topic in this list.

-Adrian

--- On Fri, 3/5/10, Adrian Crum <[hidden email]> wrote:

> From: Adrian Crum <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Moving The Conversion Framework To Apache Commons
> To: [hidden email]
> Date: Friday, March 5, 2010, 9:19 PM
> Apache Commons has just granted me
> karma to move our conversion framework to their sandbox,
> with the goal being to have it replace their abandoned
> Convert project.
>
> I will be working on making our existing conversion
> framework code operate as a stand-alone library, and then
> get it committed to the Commons sandbox.
>
> After the Commons PMC has had a chance to review it, and if
> they decide to make it a part of the Commons project, it
> would be great if anyone in the OFBiz community who is
> interested would participate in that project as well. I
> understand that there were concerns raised about a loss of
> control should the conversion framework be spun off to its
> own project, so I want to assure the community that I will
> do all I can to keep us involved in its development.
>
> -Adrian
>
>
>
>      
>

[Harmeet Bedi]

Congratulations. Would be nice if more and more ofbiz ideas can be
componentized and made more reusable via commons. Ofbiz has too many
good ideas in it for one project.

Harmeet
On 06/03/10 10:49 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:

> Apache Commons has just granted me karma to move our conversion framework to their sandbox, with the goal being to have it replace their abandoned Convert project.
>
> I will be working on making our existing conversion framework code operate as a stand-alone library, and then get it committed to the Commons sandbox.
>
> After the Commons PMC has had a chance to review it, and if they decide to make it a part of the Commons project, it would be great if anyone in the OFBiz community who is interested would participate in that project as well. I understand that there were concerns raised about a loss of control should the conversion framework be spun off to its own project, so I want to assure the community that I will do all I can to keep us involved in its development.
>
> -Adrian
>
>
>
>

[Chris Snow-3]

Yes, this progress is very good news.

Harmeet Bedi wrote:

> Congratulations. Would be nice if more and more ofbiz ideas can be
> componentized and made more reusable via commons. Ofbiz has too many
> good ideas in it for one project.
>
> Harmeet
> On 06/03/10 10:49 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:
>> Apache Commons has just granted me karma to move our conversion
>> framework to their sandbox, with the goal being to have it replace
>> their abandoned Convert project.
>>
>> I will be working on making our existing conversion framework code
>> operate as a stand-alone library, and then get it committed to the
>> Commons sandbox.
>>
>> After the Commons PMC has had a chance to review it, and if they
>> decide to make it a part of the Commons project, it would be great if
>> anyone in the OFBiz community who is interested would participate in
>> that project as well. I understand that there were concerns raised
>> about a loss of control should the conversion framework be spun off
>> to its own project, so I want to assure the community that I will do
>> all I can to keep us involved in its development.
>>
>> -Adrian
>>
>>
>>
>>
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