Codehaus Codehaus: Codehaus differentiates itself from other similar efforts in several ways. Unlike the Apache Software Foundation's Jakarta Project, Codehaus places a firm priority on the production of useful code, and less on "community-building" exercises such as voting, committee-forming and proposal-writing. Each project is provided autonomy to organize as it wishes and to address its own customer concerns and requirements directly.
Interesting if cryptic. The implication that Apache does not place a priority on writing code is clearly false, but hopefully that is just poor wording. I'm interested to know how projects have the "autonomy" to organize how they see fit without calling votes or writing proposal. Or is the intention that developers can vote and write proposals, but that there will be no higher authority like the Apache board that can intervene (similar to Tigris)? Sounds like Codehaus projects could either be fun, fluid and open, or just enlightened dictatorships. "Hey you, stop talking and write some code! I make all the decisions around here!" I guess we'll see.
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