On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Alan Conway <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 04/01/2011 02:03 PM, Steve Huston wrote: > >> Hi Rob, >> >> On 1 April 2011 18:19, Steve Huston<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> You have to ask yourself, "How much time and effort am I willing to >>>> put into a component that's dead?" If it's something significant, >>>> leave it in an attic-type thing. If not, delete it. >>>> >>>> >>> I'm not sure that's really the question... the idea of an >>> attic is that it would be frozen. The balance is really >>> between effort up front to move it there now, vs. potential >>> effort expended in trying to locate it again if it gets >>> brought back from the dead / if anyone is interested in looking at it. >>> >>> I'm not sure that in either case we are really talking about >>> a sizeable effort. >>> >> >> Right, probably not sizeable as in days of effort. But you need to think >> about responses to people who email the list with questions on it. If >> the pieces are deleted, the answer is "it's gone; if you want to dredge >> up the past instead of using the updated, supported stuff that works, >> please justify why someone should spend a few hours getting it back. >> Better yet, donate a bag of cash to ASF." >> >> If it's in the attic (or whatever place it's named) it's going to >> generate more questions because it's visible. Even if it's just "why is >> the .NET stuff gone? Are you MS haters?" that will need someone to >> respond to it. Or to continually explain why it's in the attic. >> >> > Delete it. Nobody's maintaining it and we have better alternatives on the > project. If someone wants to work on these areas of functionality they > should be working on the new stuff, keeping the old stuff is just confusing. > If someone has a historical interest in the old stuff they can grab a 0.8 > tarball, no effort required. If they want to track the history more closely, > that's what SVN is for. However I don't think we should spend a lot more > time thinking about how to cater to these hypothetical people of the future. > One thing that's clear from this thread is that nobody is interested in this > code now. > > Having read all the comments I am also thinking that removing is the best option. I actually tried to do this about an year ago and didn't find enough support. http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg09638.html My suggestion to remove at the time was promoted by yet another question from a user about the unmaintained and unsupported 0.10 and 0-8 .NET clients. On a different thread I did suggest that Rob's idea of moving to an attic maybe a good compromise. But that was purely taking into consideration the work done by Julian and Aidan. Seems like there has been no activity from either of them for a while now. So lets remove this code and move on with it. Rajith > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation > Project: http://qpid.apache.org > Use/Interact: mailto:[email protected] > >
