Hi Norris, David & Hannes, (*) at the beginning of the year I've asked in this list if the project was half asleep. Now I rather think that its state narrows the clinical dead.
It seems to me that improvements in the project occur only occasionally when the personal interest of some committer is involved. The number of open bugs without any sign of life of any Rhino committer is high. Particularly alarming, *even issues with patch (and unit test) are totally ignored*. This really gives the very displeasing impression that users don't matter at all. I've tried to contribute to improve the situation but a rhino is a heavy beast and it is not particularly pleasant to find (nearly) only silence. As Attila wrote that he would "welcome if [you] could attract new developers", I've mentioned my interest but except Attila, none of the committers even react to it. I can understand that you find that I don't have the skills for the project and I don't care to be refused, but I've found this absolute lack of reaction offending. This is something that I haven't seen in any other project. It is OK for me if you consider Rhino as your personal project that should work only for your particular usage and when you don't care if/how it is used elsewhere. This is rather uncommon for an open source project, but I can accept it. In this case please mention it explicitly to avoid wrong expectations. Rhino has a far longer history than most other dynamic languages on the JVM, nevertheless if you compare its activity with the one of projects like Groovy, JRuby or Jython for instance, it looks really bad for Rhino. It's a pity because this surely a point that users have to consider when they have to choose between languages. I guess that this post won't change things at all (and perhaps even motivate committers to create a filter that automatically deletes my posts ;-)) and that Rhino will continue to vegetate. I really hope to be wrong, but the evolution of the situation over the last months makes me really pessimistic. Cheers, Marc. (*) as far as I know, Attila is still a committer but my critics are not addressed to him as he is the only one who is really present in this list. -- Web: http://www.efficient-webtesting.com Blog: http://mguillem.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ dev-tech-js-engine-rhino mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-js-engine-rhino
