Hi Karl,

> Do you have any opinion about the Generic connector and authority? 
No, I don't have. And I've not used these connector yet, although I like the 
idea these connector have.

Do you ask users  in user mailing list?

Regards,
Shinichiro Abe

On 2014/10/01, at 15:46, Karl Wright <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Abe-san,
> 
> Moving connectors to "legacy" is possible but since there is a dependency
> on the framework, such connectors will become unusable pretty quickly.  So
> what I am looking for mostly is: does the connector have customers, and if
> not, is there anyone still willing to maintain the connector?
> 
> 
> MetaCarta GTS is in fact still used (at least it was at the beginning of
> 2014) by the current owners of MetaCarta.  They generally do not post to
> lists, though.  So I believe this one should stay.
> 
> Memex is already gone, at their own request.
> 
> Meridio is harder to figure out, since I don't know the current customer
> status at MetaCarta.  The big problem with Meridio is that it requires a
> server-side plugin which we don't have the source code for.  I am pretty
> sure that plugin is out of date by now.  Since noibody has complained, it's
> a good guess that nobody is using the connector.  But I've been maintaining
> it nevertheless.  I'll let you know.
> 
> Do you have any opinion about the Generic connector and authority?  The
> reason I asked was because I knew of no customers, and because Maciej (the
> original contributor) was no longer maintaining it.
> 
> Karl
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Shinichiro Abe <[email protected]
>> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Karl,
>> 
>> +1 for "less is more".
>> 
>> I'd like to get rid of connectors which is probably unused.
>> 
>> Another connector candidates
>> about which there are not  emails  to ask questions, share knowledge, and
>> discuss issues
>> in user mailing list for years:
>> 
>> -MetaCarta GTS
>> -Memex
>> -Meridio
>> 
>> We could move these connectors to
>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/manifoldcf/legacy/
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Shinichiro Abe
>> 
>> On 2014/09/30, at 21:03, Karl Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> For ManifoldCF 2.0, one of the major themes is "less is more".  I'm
>> looking
>>> therefore to get rid of connectors that have no users in the community.
>> Is
>>> anyone out there using the generic authority and connector at this time?
>>> 
>>> Karl
>> 
>> 

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