| A p a c h e F o r r e s t | |
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| What is this? | |
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| Forrest is a mostly a dream: create a good technological infrastructure for | |
| open software development for the Apache Software Foundation based on ASF | |
| software, ASF practices and experience and modern software design principles. | |
| Why? | |
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| If you ever partecipated in ASF open development you know why: there is always | |
| the feeling that you are left on your own, that each project, effort, | |
| community mail list and invidual has to struggle to keep up with the others | |
| and to keep coherence. | |
| This effort was started by those who believe that a better and more coherent | |
| technical infrastructure is a first step in the right direction. | |
| Ok, better infrastructure, what what do you mean exactly? | |
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| Ever seen 'sourceforge'? ok, than you know what a technological | |
| instrastructure for open development is. Ever seen Mozilla's 'tinkerbox' and | |
| 'bonsai'? ok, then you know what we mean for 'helping tools'. | |
| Take all the wishes/dreams that you ever had when you were partecipating in | |
| a OSS community... well, we want Forrest to make them possible. | |
| Why the name 'Forrest'? | |
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| Oh, long story, but mainly out of the movie 'Forrest Gump', mostly | |
| to indicate that even dump and simple things can go a long way if done | |
| by heart. | |
| What will Forrest do? | |
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| The first development phase will bring: | |
| - a publishing system for documentation | |
| - a build system for code | |
| - analysis of logs and publishing of results | |
| Will I be able to use Forrest on my own sites? | |
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| We do Forrest for our own stuff, but there is no reason why we should | |
| restrict its use on external and unreleated sites. | |
| What will the license be? | |
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| The entire thing will be licensed with the Apache License. See the /legal | |
| directory for more information. | |
| Can I help? | |
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| Of course! We need you! Even your wish-list is a good way of contributing... | |
| so please, send email to | |
| forrest-dev-subscribe@xml.apache.org | |
| and join us! | |
| The Apache XML Project | |
| http://xml.apache.org/ | |