[picocontainer-dev] Plexus and PicoContainer merging and heading to Apache

Jason's message to the plexus committers is below.

This has been under discussion for about a month now:  PicoContainer  
and Plexus join forces and move to Apache as a single 'new' project.

Its a different place, with a different license, and different  
organizational structures, and we'll fourish :-)

IoC kinda started at Apache, and remained controversial for a few  
years.  Later on, outside of Apache, Spring, Pico, Hivemind, Plexus  
and latterly Guice saw the deployments of applications to live go  
through the roof, and IoC and Dependency Injection go mainstream for  
Java at least.

We need to chat to each committer in turn though, so watch for  
emails :-)

More later...

- Paul


> As mentioned in the past I think a move to Apache would probably do
> the project some good. I've also been chatting with Paul Hammant on/
> off for the last few weeks as we're in the same area and we feel that
> merging with Pico and moving to Apache would start the process of
> bringing back the IoC containers that splintered off from Apache long
> ago.
>
> I'm just going to use the committer list in xircles for the proposal.
> I'll send the draft here when I'm done with Paul.
>
> If there is anyone that does not want to be part of the proposal let
> me know and I will strike you from the list.
>
> It's find other good container people, merge with their projects and
> move to Apache (which at least for us makes sense and the primary
> consumer is there) or languish and die. I'm not ready yet to languish
> and die just yet.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Jason van Zyl
> Founder and PMC Chair, Apache Maven
> jason at sonatype dot com
> ----------------------------------------------------------



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