Rob, Choosing a community driven solution is not "re-inventing" the wheel, its just choosing the "free" wheel.
Cheers! On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Rob Davies <rajdav...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > -- *Ioannis Canellos* * http://iocanel.blogspot.com Apache Karaf <http://karaf.apache.org/> Committer & PMC Apache ServiceMix <http://servicemix.apache.org/> Committer *
