Good luck with the new project, Evan! I don't think you realize just how ahead of our time your crazy idea was! I can't imagine using a framework now without all these wonderful components.
Cheers, Mike On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 3:22:45 PM UTC-6, Evan Miller wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I have some good news and some bad news that I'd like to share with the > community. > > First, the good news: Chicago Boss now has a full-time employee! Zach > Kessin (author of "Building Web Applications with Erlang" and host of the > Mostly Erlang podcast) will be working over the next 6 months to bring CB > to 1.0. He's new to CB but has already done some great work improving CB's > error reporting, adding specs and tests, and refactoring the code base. I'm > looking forward to seeing all his contributions in the next few months. > > Zach's work is being sponsored by Dmitry Polyanovsky, a long-time CB > community member and contributor of many patches. Dmitry will be working on > improving the documentation and website, and will be setting milestones and > guiding Zach's efforts for the next few framework releases. I've been a fan > of Dmitry's contributions, and having talked to him over the last few > months, I think he knows exactly what CB needs to reach maturity. > > And now, the bad news: it's been a fun ride, but I am planning to retire > from Erlang and Chicago Boss. But don't cry for me: I've been having > success with my desktop software business (wizardmac.com) and realized > that going forward I will no longer have the time to dedicate to both CB > and Wizard. (Incidentally I also left grad school a couple months ago to > focus on Wizard.) Finished software products require a ton of focus and > work, and I just don't have the mental capacity to manage two projects at > once. I wish there were more hours in the day! > > I've given this a lot of thought, and I think it's probably the right time > in CB's trajectory for me to start transitioning out anyway. My specialty > is trying crazy ideas and getting them to work. (It's amazing the number of > times people laughed at me when I told them I was working on a Rails-like > web framework in Erlang!) CB has been a wonderful playground for me to try > out my ideas, whether it was with the template system, BossDB, the compiler > hacks, BossMQ… well, you get the idea :D. And I've loved being part of a > community that has appreciated my work and made countless improvements and > contributions to it. > > But at this point, CB doesn't need any more crazy ideas -- it needs > stability! Tests, specs, documentation, QA, error messages, deployment > tools, that sort of thing. I guess it's selfish of me, but these things > tend to make my eyes glaze over. That's part of the reason CB has been > stalled out at version 0.8 the last year or two. > > So, taking all this together, I've been busy taking steps to hand off my > Erlang projects to folks who I trust can guide them to maturity. Dmitry & > Zach will be shepherding CB to 1.0, and Andreas Stenius will be taking the > reins over ErlyDTL. (Andreas, by the way, has been doing FANTASTIC work to > merge the Zotonic fork of ErlyDTL back into mainline.) My "retirement" has > been in the works for a couple months, and I waited until I knew CB would > be in good hands to make today's announcement. > > Finally: transitions are tough, and I will be relying on YOU the community > to keep CB's core values alive: a no-nonsense web framework with an open > and welcoming community. Zach has been very productive already, but he is > still figuring out "how we do things around here", so I'd really appreciate > it if you all will take time to answer his questions and weigh in on any > proposed changes. > > Over the next few months I'll still be making myself available to answer > questions, offer guidance, and resolve any impasses. But to be honest, I > think between the community and the 1.0 leadership, you guys won't really > need me anyway :D > > Well, that's it for news. Gosh, it's been almost 6 years since I wrote the > first line of code that later became Chicago Boss. Working with Erlang has > been an education in itself, and bouncing ideas off of so many smart people > has been a unique privilege. I still believe Erlang and CB are the right > way to build fast websites, and with ARM servers and devices on the > horizon, there's a ton of potential ahead. But as for me -- it's time to > climb other mountains! > > Thanks again for your patience, support, and continuing contributions. I'm > proud of the framework and community we've built together, and look forward > to watching it grow and flourish without me. Feel free to ping me with any > questions, and of course give me a shout if you're ever in Chicago. > > Cheers!!! > > Evan > > > -- > Evan Miller > http://www.evanmiller.org/ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChicagoBoss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
