Hi, first of all, sorry for being silent so much time.
On 22 March 2011 23:56, Bob Tarling <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe ArgoUML is seen as a small project that has already been given > some funding. We may get our turn again later. > > Maybe Google are disappointed with our history of not keeping a single > student as a regular commiter (do they scan ohloh and notice this?) > I think that this fact disappointed me very much, even if I wasn't a very good mentor due to personal reasons. All the students went away or are idle and this isn't good for mentors to see that their work in mentoring wasn't of long term value for the project. Personally I'm very reluctant to apply to a mentorship role in the context of GSoC. When the person is in a pro bono spirit I think that the possibilities for him to create higher quality code and to stick in the medium term are higher. > Maybe lack of eclipse integration makes us look dated and about to be > overtaken. It really is something that I wish we had the skills to > pursue. The fact that we haven't managed to keep the students in that > area is concerning. Is it just bad luck or are we doing something > wrong? I have knowledge of Eclipse RCP. But I'm currently more interested in the Lisp family of programming languages. Specifically Clojure. Would ArgoUML accept something which would slowly be translated into Clojure? Another thing that I think makes ArgoUML not so hot today is because UML isn't a hot topic anymore. There is a majority of persons that use it for simple sketching or for drawing diagrams that help in conveying information and niches that really use it to do the round trip engineering things. MDA is also applied only in niches and the "hot stuff" of the day are dynamic languages, the Web and mobile development. Maybe a specialized module for generating mobile applications? Alas, for me ArgoUML's sweet spot is and will always be the relative easiness of making diagrams that help in conveying information and knowledge. The drawing tools should never be removed :-) All the best, Luís > > I understand there was an IRC chat session where orgs could ask about > their rejection. Did anyone manage to take part? > > Bob > > (...) ------------------------------------------------------ http://argouml.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=450&dsMessageId=2713315 To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: [[email protected]]. To be allowed to post to the list contact the mailing list moderator, email: [[email protected]]
