Le 16/09/14 22:17, Stefan Seelmann a écrit : > Hi Shawn, > > On 09/16/2014 01:32 PM, Shawn McKinney wrote: >> Hello, >> >> In order to increase the number of contributers and broaden adoption I >> am considering contributing Fortress to the Apache Directory project. I >> am offering this donation under the advisement of Emmanuel Lecharny who >> is also a committer on the Fortress project. Emmanuel has focused his >> efforts on integrating Fortress with the Apache LDAP API and that work >> is nearly complete. Please let me know if you would be interested in >> discussing this further. > Thanks for the proposal. > > I agree that Fortress is a good fit to the other projects at Apache > Directory. So if you and others think that Fortress should be a > sub-project then I won't oppose. > > However I also have concerns. The Directory project already has 5 > subprojects, 3 of them with more then 200k LOC each, but only 2 active > committers. I just want to avoid that we inject yet another code drop > that nobody maintains later.
That's a concern I share, but I think it's a bit orthogonal to Fortress. Peter summarized the concern quite well : it's all about the lack of advertisement, which brings light on the projects, which brings committers... We have to work on those aspects : - stable versions that *works* (in production !) - better documentation (the number of TODO on teh web site is just a shame...) - better exposition on what we currently have IMHO, the work on Mavibot is absolutely critical for #1, and this is something Kiran and I are working atm. It's painful, hard, and time consumming, but we are lamost there. The second and third concerns are to be addressed quickly too. Regarding Fortress, I have to tell that the code base is stable, the documentation is far superior as what we have currently on ApacheDS, so I don't fell like it would be a huge problem in the near future.
