Daniel Fagerstrom wrote:
To me:
* throwing away the collected work of the community
* building something rather different
* throwing away a strong brand
* leave all the users who has put a trust in us behind
seem like a rather strange way of "saving" Cocoon.
It seemed like a rather strange way of saving Apple as well, but look
what happened. Now I agree about the point on "throwing away a strong
brand", because the focus of any revolution here is to clarify and
crystalize how to use Cocoon efficiently. Now, the point of "leave all
the users who has put a trust in us behind" is a bit of hyperbole IMO.
This community successfully made that transition once before.
I will continue to be proud of our brand, our product and our
community. And I will continue the work on *Cocoon* towards the future
in an evolutionary way, so that those who have put their trust in us
have a reasonable migration path to follow.
I've put a souple years into Cocoon, and I'm proud of the work that I've
done. I like the *concepts* behind Cocoon. The problem is that I lack
the patience to wait for evolution to take place--how long has it been
that real blocks are not a reality in Cocoon? I could understand if it
were just six months and you have to have some time to make it happen.
I take this painfully slow evolutionary pace to mean that we are unable
to adapt quickly enough. That's a real problem. Esp. when I don't have
a clear picture of how blocks is even going to help me.
My friends, the comment of Ruby on Rails and simplicity has hit our
ecosystem. Prepare for an ice age, adapt or die. Slow adaptation isn't
going to cut it. Users have different expectations of their frameworks now.
IMO the most important step towards getting an uppwards spiral again
is by regaining our and our communities faith in Cocoon, by keeping
our promisses and do a 2.2 release. Instead of running like lemmlings
towards the next shiny thing.
We should focus on our core offerning and getting the parts of it
reusable outside Cocoon and of high quality, following the path
outlined by Marc.
Enjoy that process. There is a lot of pain involved with doing
restructurings of Cocoon. As much as I like Cocoon, I honestly believe
that the effort to bring order out of chaos is going to be much higher
than the effort to build a new system. That's my two cents.
For you attention seekers out there, OSGi based blocks will draw a lot
of attention towards Cocoon, and it is innovation, not immitation.
/Daniel
:) Honestly, too little, too late. Just how much attention has OSGi
received over the years? It's been around at least as long as Avalon,
but Avalon received much more attention (albeit negative attention). It
has been living quietly behind the scenes now for a long time.
