On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Pete Carapetyan <p...@datafundamentals.com> wrote: >> In a way I am honored that your "hard earned experience" with OSGi and >> Maven's BND plugin, is all blamed on the OPS4J community behind the >> Pax toolkit. We are hardly responsible for "everything OSGi"... > > It's AFU that my writing style comes across as blaming. It's a genuine > point of inquiry for me, and indicates a personal defect that instead > it comes across as creepy blaming behavior. > > To the OPS4J community I represent the mainstream corporate developer > who only wants to consume OSGi but not understand it. In my case, pax > represents the ability to start with something that works, and then > adjust it until I begin to understand what is going on under the > covers. That's a really stupid way to learn OSGi, but I didn't know > that until I tried it and failed. > > It may be off topic, but I still maintain that pax can bring OSGi into > the mainstream, and that our industry wins when this happens, even if > it is too big a subject for this thread. > > After posting this note I realized my expectations were out of line. I > consider it my job to clarify things in the near future, so that the > idiot corporate developer like me who comes in not wanting to > understand OSGi but just to do it, can use pax with some degree of > success and not waste the time that I did. That's only fair.
Thanks for clarifying, and for having such great hopes about the Pax project. If you have concrete examples of improvements, ideas, feedback, please fill JIRA with it, perhaps even considering contributing some of that directly. This is probably the most open community of open source development you can find, and our initial prediction was that some way down the line the envisioned 'long tail' of contributions would start becoming significantly important. Cheers -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java I live here; http://tinyurl.com/3xugrbk I work here; http://tinyurl.com/24svnvk I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug _______________________________________________ general mailing list general@lists.ops4j.org http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/general
