Introducing myself
Hi graffito-dev! I just joined the mailing list after a long while of following the project by the web site and the incubation status reports. I'm a committer and the release manager of the Apache Jackrabbit project, whom some of you already know from the Jackrabbit mailing lists. I've been keeping an eye on Graffito as an approach of building applications on top of the JCR API, and would like to help increase the coupling between the Jackrabbit and Graffito communities. To do this I'm volunteering to join Raphaël as a mentor of Graffito, of course assuming that you'd have me as a mentor. I'm not a long-time Apache veteran and have few contacts with the Portals project, but I've got fresh hands-on experience from the Jackrabbit project ranging from early days of it's incubation to successful graduation. Along the way I touched virtually all parts of the incubation process and a good number of other practices that define the Apache Way. I'd love to share that experience with you. BR, Jukka Zitting -- Yukatan - http://yukatan.fi/ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software craftsmanship, JCR consulting, and Java development
Re: Introducing myself
Hi Jukka and welcome! I think at this point there are a couple of directions graffito project may go (there were some emails about its status and what people involved here are thinking about its future). Unfortunately, I don't think this thread was public so that you can read it, but maybe Raphael or somebody else can forward it to you. Just to reconfirm my position: I am currently very busy with InfoQ.com, but I expect things to settle out with the start of automn. Since building the InfoQ.com, I've been very interested in the idea of a object2content mapping solution and the only one available at that moment was Graffito. And I still believe it would be interesting to build such a tool. What I have disagreed on quite from the beginning was about its embedding deep in the graffito project. And I would like to bring it more to light. Unfortunately, for the moment this is only talk, and till I will have time to get back to it I should refrain from commenting. Also I must confess I have on my list a couple of more oss projects in which my involvement is quite active: TestNG (co-founder), WebWork/XWork core-developer, so I will see in time if I can put more work on the mapping stuff. BR, ./alex -- .w( the_mindstorm )p. #: Jukka Zitting changed the world a bit at a time by saying (astral date: 7/6/2006 8:04 PM) :# Hi graffito-dev! I just joined the mailing list after a long while of following the project by the web site and the incubation status reports. I'm a committer and the release manager of the Apache Jackrabbit project, whom some of you already know from the Jackrabbit mailing lists. I've been keeping an eye on Graffito as an approach of building applications on top of the JCR API, and would like to help increase the coupling between the Jackrabbit and Graffito communities. To do this I'm volunteering to join Raphaël as a mentor of Graffito, of course assuming that you'd have me as a mentor. I'm not a long-time Apache veteran and have few contacts with the Portals project, but I've got fresh hands-on experience from the Jackrabbit project ranging from early days of it's incubation to successful graduation. Along the way I touched virtually all parts of the incubation process and a good number of other practices that define the Apache Way. I'd love to share that experience with you. BR, Jukka Zitting
Re: Introducing myself
Hi Jukka, Personally, I will be very happy if you want to join the team. It will be a great benefit for the Graffito project if we can work more with the Jackrabbit team. Furthermore your Jackrabbit incubation & JCR experiences will be also very usefull of us. Contrary to Alex, I think the project main goals are clear : Graffito is a framework for building content oriented applications like forums, news management (mainly for portal servers). Let me know if the following page is not correct (or can be improved ) : http://incubator.apache.org/graffito/. Now, we are facing to the JCR support that's why the subporjects JCR/mapping, JCR/Spring,.. are there. Those tools could be move outside the Graffito project. I'm open to discuss on that but I have no time to organise this change. +1 so see you as a new mentor. Thanks, Christophe On 7/6/06, Jukka Zitting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi graffito-dev! I just joined the mailing list after a long while of following the project by the web site and the incubation status reports. I'm a committer and the release manager of the Apache Jackrabbit project, whom some of you already know from the Jackrabbit mailing lists. I've been keeping an eye on Graffito as an approach of building applications on top of the JCR API, and would like to help increase the coupling between the Jackrabbit and Graffito communities. To do this I'm volunteering to join Raphaël as a mentor of Graffito, of course assuming that you'd have me as a mentor. I'm not a long-time Apache veteran and have few contacts with the Portals project, but I've got fresh hands-on experience from the Jackrabbit project ranging from early days of it's incubation to successful graduation. Along the way I touched virtually all parts of the incubation process and a good number of other practices that define the Apache Way. I'd love to share that experience with you. BR, Jukka Zitting -- Yukatan - http://yukatan.fi/ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software craftsmanship, JCR consulting, and Java development -- Best regards, Christophe
