RE: [Announcement] Merlin becomes Metro.

Hi guys

I think that is a great idea ...

Personally I think that the biggest challenge would be to have an updated 
documentation with dumhead prove examples.

I am in ...

Cheers
Sam

>From: Niclas Hedhman <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: "Avalon framework users" <[email protected]>
>To: "Avalon Users" <[email protected]>,   "Avalon Developers List" 
><[email protected]>
>CC: Avalon PMC <[email protected]>
>Subject: [Announcement] Merlin becomes Metro.
>Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:17:10 +0800
>
>
>Everyone,
>
>Following various discussions with the Avalon PMC, select ASF members and
>others, the active developers of the Merlin source code together with a
>number of dedicated users have formulated a plan to escalate and expand the
>development of the Metro platform outside of ASF.
>
>We have compiled a complete roadmap of what this means in practical terms 
>to
>various user groups, available at;
>     http://www.dpml.net/dpml/admin/pdfs/metro-roadmap-20041007.pdf
>
>We hope that this document covers most aspects of the involved fork, even
>though it is not yet complete. For instance, the document doesn't yet 
>explain
>exactly how this will take form.
>
>  *  Digital Product Meta Library (dpml.net) is an existing resource hub of
>digital products. We have agreed to utilize this name and the resources
>available behind it, mainly ibiblio.org.
>
>  *  Driven by our user focus here in Avalon, we are now pushing the "Open" 
>in
>"OSS" to a concept that we call "Open Participation Software". 
>Contributions
>and committer status are available to everyone.
>
>  *  Organizational Lightweight, open process, open participation, ASL2.0, 
>and
>lots of fun.
>
>
>We are not fully up to speed (yet), but have the following resources
>available, which should be sufficient for most users at this point in time;
>
>   Mailing lists;
>       List: [email protected]
>       Description: Project management related stuff.
>       Subscribe: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/admin-dpml
>
>       List: [email protected]
>       Description: Development related stuff.
>       Subscribe: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/dev-dpml
>
>       List: [email protected]
>       Description: Questions and general user support.
>       Subscribe: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/support-dpml
>
>
>   Web sites;
>       www.dpml.net       Static content and static repository.
>       paris.dpml.net     Dynamic content
>
>   Subversion repository;
>       http://paris.dpml.net/svn/metro
>
>   Scarab Issuetracking
>       http://paris.dpml.net/issues
>
>(paris.dpml.net will become operational *soon*, as we are awaiting 
>ibiblio.org
>admin's to add the host to the DNS and a new IP to be installed. Sorry for
>the inconvenience, and announcement of availability will be made on the
>admin-dpml@ mailing list.)
>
>
>We would like to thank the entire ASF, members, committers and users for 
>the
>time at the Apache Avalon project, for their valuable support and the
>experience we have gained. Perhaps Metro's and ASF's paths meet again in 
>the
>future.
>
>
>Cheers,
>
>Niclas Hedhman
>Stephen McConnell
>Timothy Bennett
>Andreas Oberhack
>Cameron Fieber
>Peter Neubauer
>David Leangen
>Mårten Österberg
>Alexis Agahi
>Raffael Herzog
>
>Note:  ASF in the above context stands for The Apache Software Foundation.
>
>P.S. If you have any problems with any of these resources, please contact
>[email protected] and/or [email protected]
>
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