is this is answer to my statement ?? I also think choice is good - I'm just saying that we shouldn't fall into the trap of re-inventing everything because its not apache. If talend wants to donate stuff to apache - awesome! - its all good!
On 15 Apr 2011, at 10:30, Christian Schneider wrote: > I am absolutely positive to reuse existing solutions and to not redo efforts > that have been done elsewhere. That is why I did not insist on the clustering > solution being an apache project. > Though as you for sure know there are two kinds of open source projects. One > kind is driven and "owned" by a community and the other kind by a company. > The difference is in freedom for users as well as for contributors. > > For example in the case of config management and deployment Talend will also > like to help drive the solution. In case of a community driven project this > will be possible. In case of a fuse product it may or may not be possible > depending on the current position of the Fuse management. So while in open > source it is always possible to fork a project only community driven and > owned projects allow collaboration of several vendors in the same project in > the long run. > > So for this reason I think that strategic dependencies of apache projects > should be community driven if possible. > > Just to name one case where this is not the case is spring. While the product > is great and helps the apache projects a lot it is not possible to really > take part in the spring development. So while we would sur elike to fix or > change many things in spring we could only do this by creating a fork which > would be a baad choice. So it iss no wonder that many projects try to be more > independent of spring. > > Christian > > > Am 15.04.2011 11:11, schrieb Rob Davies: >> We use other open source projects all the time in our apache projects - even >> core functionality. What should matter is the right solution - I hate to >> think any apache project suffers from not invented here syndrome. >> On 15 Apr 2011, at 09:57, Christian Schneider wrote: >> > > -- > ---- > http://www.liquid-reality.de >
