10 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.htmlunit-userRe: [Htmlunit-user] Should HtmlUnit m...
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Marc GuillemotJan 6, 2009 11:53 am 
Tom AndersonJan 6, 2009 12:34 pm 
Mike BowlerJan 6, 2009 1:25 pm 
Daniel GredlerJan 6, 2009 4:44 pm 
Ahmed AshourJan 6, 2009 9:51 pm 
Marc GuillemotJan 8, 2009 6:16 am 
Francis HitchensJan 8, 2009 8:14 am 
Hernan SoulagesJan 8, 2009 12:55 pm 
George DinwiddieJan 9, 2009 7:57 am 
Julien HENRYJan 10, 2009 3:25 am 
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Subject:Re: [Htmlunit-user] Should HtmlUnit move to Apache Foundation?Actions...
From:Francis Hitchens (FHit@amdocs.com)
Date:Jan 8, 2009 8:14:32 am
List:net.sourceforge.lists.htmlunit-user

I think it would be an excellent idea as it would make getting approval to use HtmlUnit as an official testing tool within my organization much easier.

Apache foundation tools are already widely accepted and used.

Regards, Francis.

-----Original Message----- From: Marc Guillemot [mailto:mgui@yahoo.fr] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:17 AM To: html@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Htmlunit-user] Should HtmlUnit move to Apache Foundation?

Hi,

I'm a bit surprised by the lack of answers. I see two possible explanations: - we have only one user (hi Tom) ;-( - or our users don't care at all about this issue

@Tom: as Ahmed said, I don't see any reason why we shouldn't be able to preserve our reaction time therefore I don't think that it would have any consequence on snapshots. It may look a bit differently on releases, but this is only a thought, not based on facts. Concerning Rhino, the situation has improved and we haven't currently any patch in our "fork". Nevertheless this fork allows us to decide when we want to release it and we don't need to wait for a new Rhino version. As said by Daniel, we could imagine to keep this fork as SF project.

Cheers, Marc.

Tom Anderson wrote:

On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Marc Guillemot wrote:

- we wouldn't be as free as we are currently and would have to respect the Foundation's rules

Could you elaborate on this? Perhaps after talking to some guys from the Foundation. One of the great things about HtmlUnit is that you guys react very quickly to bug reports, new ideas and so on. I'd hate to see you lose that - and i think you'd find it frustrating.

- particularly, I don't know if/how we could keep our Rhino fork (that is currently only a snapshot but that allows to control the release dates)

Do you think the Rhino project's speed at incorporating bugfixes is likely to improve in the near future?

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