[wtp-proposal] April 30 Summary of Web Tools Project Proposal Feedback

["Bjorn Freeman-Benson" <bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(As part of the membership-at-large comment process, I will be summarizing
the discussions and feedback at the end of each week: April 30, May 7, May
14, May 21, and May 27. This is the first of those summaries. I invite you
to correct any errors I have made.)

Features requested:
    hibernate - Haris Peco <snpe@xxxxxxxxxx>
    JSF - Haris Peco <snpe@xxxxxxxxxx>
    JSP - Ivar Vasara <ivasara-NOSPAM-@xxxxxx>
    portlets - Mohamed ZERGAOUI <mozer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    spring - Haris Peco <snpe@xxxxxxxxxx>
    xdoclet - redmark <redpowerhot@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Critiques:
    "Spending a bunch of time making a perfect solution doesn't make sense
to me; don't want a new set of frameworks when a good starting point
exists" - Michael Dickson <mike.dickson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Scope questions:
    "Should doclets be a technology project or JSR annotations in the J2EE
project?" - Naci Dai <naci.dai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    "Both doclets and 1.5 metadata are standards; how to coordinate the
two?" - Thomas Hallgren <thomas.hallgren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Statements of scoping:
    "The scope of web tools is huge and we have chosen to start with
something well identified" - Christophe Ney <christophe.ney@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    "Do not commit to xdoclet at this point" - Thomas Hallgren
<thomas.hallgren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

A couple people have expressed mild interest in becoming a contributor and
one person stated that "you'd likely get many hands to help whip everything
into shape", but no commitments have been made.

- WTP Proposal Shepherd (Bjorn Freeman-Benson)