Hi Tommaso, Thanks for your feedback!
Are you in a position to update the status page? I don't think I can. If you disagree please point me in the right direction.. As far as the technical aspects: (1) If MySQL support is something important then I will triage the appropriate ticket accordingly. I'm curious where this requirement comes from, though. (2) I'm not sure it is reasonable to go with one build system over another. Lucene/Solr has been having this battle for years. I thought we might just learn from that experience and try to be more flexible. There are excellent technical reasons to have each - for instance, building Debian packages works much better with Ant, and Eclipse works much better with Maven. (3) I would love to have the UI look cooler. Stylistic work on the UI is definitely not the right job for me though. Now, Piergiorgio mentioned going to a spring-based UI but I'm not sure that will fix anything stylistically, and it might well require redefinition of the connector interfaces, which would be a bad thing at this point, so I don't see much benefit to this architectural change proposal. Is this what you were thinking of, or were you more thinking of look and feel? Karl On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Tommaso Teofili <tommaso.teof...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Karl, all > > > 2011/9/19 Karl Wright <daddy...@gmail.com> > >> Folks, >> I'd like to begin discussion about the next release, currently labeled >> 0.4, and also our potential for graduation from the incubator. What >> I'd like is a sense of: >> >> (a) what we are still missing as far as incubator graduation is concerned, > > > at the moment I think we're in the right direction towards the graduation > (see the clutch report [1] which however doesn't count the new > committers/mentors as our page on Incubator website has to be updated). > > >> and >> (b) what a 1.0 release might look like to everyone >> > > my point here relates also to the graduation: I think we're building a nice > community and the ManifoldCF code is being bettered every day but it seems > to me there are some (few) parts which need some refactoring as they can't > work as they are now (i.e.: support to MySQL DBs), also in my opinion we > should choose one of Maven or Ant and drop the other building system as I > fear this could confuse new users/devs. > A minor thing in my opinion is that a restyle of the UI would make > ManifoldCF some more "nice" to use, however this can be pretty personal and > less important than functional requirements. > > > >> >> Please try to be as concrete as possible. My own personal goal is to >> see this happen by the end of the year, more or less > > > +1 > > >> To that end >> I've already begun triaging JIRA tickets for the 0.4 release that I >> think would be appropriate for a 1.0 release. >> >> It's entirely possible that some things that people feel strongly >> about may not be doable in that time frame, but so be it. This may >> also be true of our status as a project. >> >> > What do others think? > All the best. > Tommaso > > [1] : http://incubator.apache.org/clutch.html > [2] : http://incubator.apache.org/projects/manifoldcf.html > > >> Thanks, >> Karl >> >
