Proposal for Compress Package

(0) rationale

Ant contains packages to deal with tar, bzip2 and zip archives that
have been reused in various projects in- and outside of Apache.

Compress provides a focused home for these packages together with
new external contributions for the ar and cpio formats with a focus on
being a reusable library - unlike the code in Ant.

(1) scope of the package

The package provides a unified API for different archiving and
compression formats together with implementations for these
algorithms.

(1.5) interaction with other packages

No interactions planned ATM.

(2) identify the initial source for the package

Compress' code is already part of the sandbox.

(2.1) identify the base name for the package

org.apache.commons.compress

(2.2) identify the coding conventions for this package

The code uses the conventions from the Jakarta Turbine package.

(3) identify any Commons resources to be created

(3.1) mailing list

No changes.

(3.2) SVN repositories

The package will need to move from the sandbox.

(3.3) JIRA

A new Commons Compress JIRA project shall be created and the issues of
the Compress Component of the Commons Sandbox project migrated to the
new project.

(4) identify the initial set of committers to be listed in the Status File.

Henri Yandell
Stefan Bodewig
Torsten Curdt