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 sure that plugin is out of date by now.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 >> >>
