On 01.12.23 17:41, Cédric Damioli wrote:
Hi,
First of the sub-project to be discussed, the Cocoon 3 project.
Never released, it only reached the alpha status 12 years ago.
Its goal was to provide a pure Java API on top of pipelines and sitemaps
concept, to be able to easily implements lightweight REST applications.
We'd like to know whether you'd prefer:
[ ] retiring Cocoon 3.0
[ ] reviving/maintaining Cocoon 3.0, meaning that you volunteer to be
somehow involved
+1 for retiring Cocoon 3.0. Most likely you would start from scratch
anyways if you want anything in that direction.
Regards,
Jörg
Please note that the above proposal is not a formal vote, but more like
a open poll, so that everyone could speak out.
Cédric
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
