On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Jean-Sebastien Delfino <
jsdelf...@apache.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Sagara Gunathunga <
> sagara.gunathu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Folks ,
> >
> > As we know we have started this project more than 1.5 years ago but we
> all
> > can agree that the current progress of the project is not sufficient. In
> my
> > point of view this project has huge potential to be a popular and
> > successful project. Unfortunately still we didn't get any attention from
> > any commercial cloud vendor or users.
> >
> > I think 2012 is a very significant year for this project unless we move
> > this project in to right track we can't think about clear future. I like
> to
> > suggest following steps to make some progress.
> >
> > 1.) Plan for first release within next few months, I think releasing what
> > ever the component we have right now is OK. I hope having a release make
> > some kind of a noise and bring some users as well.
> >
> > 2.) Provide simple configuration option.
> >
> > Since this project born within Tuscany project it's reasonable to have
> > strong binding with Tuscany. But at the moment Tuscany is the only
> > configuration option available.  As I see this significantly reduce the
> > user base of this project, I mean only subset of Tuscany users can use
> this
> > project. We have to provide simple configuration option that does not
> > depend on any 3rd party project while keeping Tuscany ( may be Spring as
> > well) as other configuration options.
> >
> > WDYT ?
> >
> > Thanks !
> >
> > --
> > Sagara Gunathunga
> >
> > Blog      - http://ssagara.blogspot.com
> > Web      - http://people.apache.org/~sagara/
> > LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/ssagara
> >
>
>
> Sounds good!
>
> A few more ideas:
>
> - have a README describing what components are there now and what you can
> do with them (unless we already have that?);
>
> - start a discussion on this list on the project roadmap (goals of the
> project, release milestones, what other projects could Nuvem partner with
> or integrate with, how to evolve from where we are now?);
>
> - then translate that roadmap into a set of work areas or tasks for
> contributors to pick?
>
> What do you think?
>


 +1

Thanks !

>
> - Jean-Sebastien
>



-- 
Sagara Gunathunga

Blog      - http://ssagara.blogspot.com
Web      - http://people.apache.org/~sagara/
LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/ssagara

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