Lucas - I'm actually quite excited by the prospect of commercial development being undertaken with CB.
As I see it, we're actually in a much better place as a community to where we were 6 months ago. Evan's decision has fostered action. Yes, it's a real shame that the weight of Evan's other priorities has forced him into the decision that it has. However, he has done a very good job as project shepherd to move the leadership responsibilities onto others. Whether the community is resilient enough to withstand the shock of the change is hard to predict, but there are some good signs. The codebase has over 800 stars in GitHub.. that means that there is a huge amount of goodwill to draw on. The code is high quality. It is very easy to build working systems with Chicago Boss that require low memory overhead. Where I think CB lacks the most is finesse in some sense. Its default error pages don't look very nice. Error messages are slightly opaque. The other factor has been mentioned several times: robustness. Parts of CB are derived from Evan's experiments reimplementing an Erlang complier toolchain (https://github.com/ChicagoBoss/aleppo). It's been a great playground. [sidenote: I was really hoping for Evan's A/B testing ideas (e.g. boss_experiment) to materialise!]. However, we need to spend some time sharpening the tools that we already have in our toolbox, rather than creating more. So... where do I stand? The things that drew me into this project still stand (http://timmcnamara.co.nz/post/54720434939/). I love the idea of facilitating kick ass apps being built that wont fall over on low cost machines. The Chicago Boss project is an extremely strong code base, and after a few wobbles I am sure that the community will continue to strengthen. Tim McNamara @timClicks <http://twitter.com/timClicks> On 23 December 2013 20:09, Dmitry Polyanovsky <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Lucas, > > you probably missed this Evan's announcement > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/chicagoboss/ekU5gZ_Ty2o/UnxZ6KSAdFQJ > > CB is in good hands, we just released v0.8.8, 7 month after last release. > Although we have full-time developer on CB, community help is greatly > appreciated in any way: code, docs, website or spreading the word. If > everything will be as we plan, you will see v1.0 in about half year, with > bunch of new features and rock-solid codebase. > > Dmitry. > > > > > On Monday, December 23, 2013 7:00:03 AM UTC+2, Lucas Introne wrote: >> >> Yup, that's us! We're still trying to decide whether ChicagoBoss is >> something we can use for our every day development. It scares me that Evan >> is an economist and not a full time ChicagoBoss wizard. What does the >> future hold? Will there ever be a CB1.0? Is the community strong enough >> to pick up the ball and run with it? These are the questions that keep me >> up at night. >> >> >> On Monday, December 9, 2013 4:49:03 PM UTC-5, Tim McNamara wrote: >>> >>> Happened to come across this >>> >>> http://totally-erlang.com/en/page/750/chicago-boss >>> >> -- > 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. > -- 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.
