2009/3/27 Marcel Offermans <[email protected]> > Great summary, Clement! I'd like to elaborate on some of these points.
I send the mail for that (I didn't see you today ???) > > > On Mar 27, 2009, at 12:16 , Clement Escoffier wrote: > > Several topics were addressed such as: >> - Why choosing Felix instead of Equinox: the license difference is not >> a killer argument. The main questions are: is Felix enough mature, >> what about the compliance, support, services .... ? >> > > Our users are telling us they want a full R4.1 implementation (this is one > of the things I've been hearing for a long time now), so I think we should > make an effort to get to that point. Exactly, I forget to mention that. They definitely want the compliance and additional services. However, I know that Rick is working hard to get the fragments. Is it the last missing core functionality? Regards, Clement > > - What about creating a "Apache bundle repository" containing all >> bundles made by Apache projects (both apache products and 3rd party >> libs). It will be something like an Apache OSGi Common project. >> Issues, License, Versioning, Support? Two issues are opened : creating >> a room for new bundles (script engines...) and how to create a >> repository for existing bundles? >> > > It probably makes sense to extend this beyond a plain OBR, since that still > won't allow "humans" to browse the repository and really learn about the > different components in there. We need something that really helps the user, > explaining the bundle, etc. > > Providing a all-in-one Felix distribution were the user selects the >> required "features/capabilities/profiles". >> > > Just a distribution where Felix starts up with all the bundles installed, > running stuff like webconsole out of the box, that is a good starting point > for people to start developing their own stuff. > > - Marcel Offermans is going to present an Ant build system to build >> OSGi applications >> > > Noel Bergman specifically was very interested in this, but I think it would > be good if we provide tooling for various build systems. > > as well as propose an Apache project for a >> provisioning server. >> > > We had very positive feedback from the community at ApacheCon about this, > so I'm going to submit a proposal on this to the incubator in a week or two. > Feel free to express your interest if you want to participate. > > Greetings, Marcel > >
