The Apache Geronimo project has recently changed it’s commit policy to a Review then Commit (RTC) policy. Which means no one can commit to the Geronimo project unless you submit a patch and then get 3 other Geronimo committers to review, apply, test, and then give you 3 +1s.

I have a younger brother-in-law that also went in to software development field, and he thinks that I’m the luckiest guy in the world since my day job is basically working on open source projects. Every once in a while he asks me, “How can I get more involved with open source?”.

Since I hate to be dependent on 3rd party services and URLs, I moved my Blog URL to a URL that I own: http://hiramchirino.com

They funny thing is that blogspot wasted no time when I changed how I published my blog, and someone else snatched up my old blogbucket.blogspot.com url.

Rob Davies and I spent some time last week looking at his Kaha message store implementation. In a way, it’s similar to a experimental QuickJournal implementation that I had committed previously. The idea of the QuickJournal was that Journal log files were not deleted and that messages could be easily retrieved from the Journal. The journal would only checkpoint to the long term store the location of where the messages are located in the journal.

I exposed the gigantic destination issues that ActiveMQ has in a previous blog post. I’ll take a little time to expand on the issue and why it’s not simple to solve, and what ActiveMQ 4.0 does today.