Modularization mailing list and initial strawman proposal

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:26:15 -0500, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:
> On Friday 11 March 2005 16:20, Kevin E Martin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > A few weeks ago the Modularization Working Group was announced, and
> > several people expressed interest in helping out.  Many of them attended
> > the recent X Developers Conference meeting in Boston and talked about
> > how modularization might be accomplished.  Since there had not been very
> > much discussion on the mailing lists after the initial announcement, we
> > decided to take advantage of our face to face time to lay the groundwork
> > for creating a proposal.  We have now worked through the issues that we
> > discovered in an effort to create a strawman proposal that describes the
> > rationale for modularization, attempts to address the known concerns
> > people have raised, provides background on other modularization efforts,
> > explains what the modularized source tree would look like, outlines the
> > steps required to take this idea from concept to release, and suggests
> > how future modular releases can be handled.
> 
> I haven't heard much reaction to this proposal.  I'm not quite optimistic
> enough to believe we nailed it on the first try, but, maybe we did.  Anyone
> have any comments?
> 
> I'd like to start moving on this as soon as possible, so if there's silent
> consensus out there I'd like it to speak up.

FWIW, I think it looks like a good plan.

Alex

> 
> - ajax
> 
>