<insert "that's where you're wrong kiddo" meme> As a corollary- this also serves as a great place for me to remind everyone to buy tickets to ApacheCon NA and come see the wonderful IoT Track!
On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 9:12 AM Christofer Dutz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I bet if someone reads this, it will probably be in the archive as the > number of subscribers will probably be pretty low at the start. > > However someone has to be the first to actually post something here. > > Please let me explain the motivation behind this first topic-mailing-list: > > We have noticed that a lot of projects in similar topic regions tend to > re-invent the wheel. For example did we (guys form the PLC4X project) > Find out the NiFi guys were thinking of starting to work on some drivers > for communicating with industrial programmable logic conrtrolers. > Why did they think about doing it? Well because they thought we were only > doing Java (Technically we are, but we’re gonna change that pretty soon) > > If we had had a mailinglist in which all of us would have been on, we > could have started talking about this. Ok … I guess no work besides > creating a ticket in Jira was wasted, but I just wanted to use it as a > demonstration. > > Another thing we noticed quite often, was that we were trying to build an > integration into another project in PLC4X. For that it’s usually quite > convenient if you can contact people willing to help out. But in order to > do this, they need to know that there’s someone looking for help. > > We hope that this new list will help at least the IoT related projects. If > this model is successful, other topics might adopt it. > > Looking forward to some great conversations. > > Chris >
