On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 11:00 AM Cédric Damioli <cdami...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Second thread to discuss about Cocon 2.x branch, with the latest
> release, 2.3.0, just being rolled out.
> Cocoon 2.2 was initially meant to implements all stuff developed during
> the 2.1 cycle on top of Spring and Maven, to drop old Avalon dependencies.
>
> We'd like to know whether you'd prefer:
> [-1 ] retiring Cocoon 2.x
>


> [+0] reviving/maintaining Cocoon 2.x, meaning that you volunteer to be
> somehow involved
>
> Please note that the above proposal is not a formal vote, but more like
> a open poll, so that everyone could speak out.
>
> Should we continue the project and this branch particularly, there are
> recent threads on this list proposing to switch to Git, to upgrade
> dependencies, build system, ...
>
> Cédric
>

Not sure I can really commit to helping much, other than testing releases,
I don't see having the time to dive into the code anymore but I do still
see people using this code base.

Peter Hunsberger


> Le 30/11/2023 à 19:53, Cédric Damioli a écrit :
> > Dear Cocoon users and developers,
> >
> > Sorry for crossposting here, I wanted to be sure that all involved
> > people were aware of the ongoing discussions.
> >
> > We recently pushed a new release of Cocoon, 11 years after the
> > previous one. This release gathers all changes made in between as well
> > as two security fixes discovered last year.
> > The journey to roll this release out was definitively not an easy one,
> > and it's now time to think about what should be next for the project.
> >
> > We currently officially maintain 3 branches, not compatible with each
> > others and having evolved differently over the years : 2.1.x, 2.2/2.3
> > and 3.0, and we do not have enough active developers to be able to
> > continue to properly and correctly maintain them.
> >
> > For a project as old as Cocoon (21 years!), there may be many users
> > around here still using one branch or another, which could be
> > interested to step up, contribute and try to revive the project, or at
> > least some parts of it.
> >
> > I will soon start 3 threads on the developers list to decide what to
> > do about each of the 3 branches (retiring or not), so I encourage
> > volunteers to bring their voices.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Cédric, on behalf of the Apache Cocoon PMC
> >
>
> --
> Cédric Damioli
> CMS - Java - Open Source
> www.ametys.org
>
>

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