Re: Is cocoon dead ?
Hi all, for anyone interested more in contributing for make things change rather than ranting about autopsy and post-mortem status, I'd strongly suggest to take a look at [1], if need subscribe to dev@ ML, and join the discussion there. Regards. [1] http://markmail.org/message/n3xt6yio6vikanuh -- Francesco Chicchiriccò ASF Member, Apache Cocoon PMC and Apache Syncope PPMC Member http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@cocoon.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@cocoon.apache.org
Re: Is cocoon dead ?
Hi Robby others, I'm not judging the steps that have been taken. I'm just wondering why there was such a decline in active community. IMHO, moving to Maven, 2.2 and 3.0 make sense, but there's something missing that you need if you want to keep your userbase broad involved: decent documentation and an acceptable learning curve ! And remember, an autopsy has a function: learn from previous mistakes. Bart On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Robby Pelssers robby.pelss...@nxp.comwrote: Hi Bart, I'd say we've learned people are reluctant to change.. even developers. But to be honest.. it was C2.2 forcing me to learn maven and I've been using it ever since for all new projects. Same holds true for Spring actually. And where I could understand the drop back then, maven or Spring can hardly be considered to be valid reasons not to use newer versions of Cocoon. I think I can agree on two things: C2.1 and C2.2 are pretty complete in what they have to offer. They are also pretty well documented. But most advanced users have moved to C2.2 or C3 and can't offer good support for the older versions. I guess it's the developers own responsibility to (NOT?) upgrade on a regular basis and dealing with corresponding consequences of his choice. C3 is already used in production and in my opinion easier to use. The biggest problem is it's still coined alpha. We should really focus on getting c3 1.0 out which will give users a more confident feeling API's won't break that easily. Robby -Original Message- From: Bart Remmerie [mailto:remme...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2012 9:21 PM To: users@cocoon.apache.org Cc: users@cocoon.apache.org Subject: Re: Is cocoon dead ? Just being critical analytical: where die we observe the big drop in community activity ? Switch to Maven move from 2.1.11 to next version ? (just a guess) = What can we learn from this ? Bart Remmerie Op 11-nov.-2012 om 18:13 heeft Michael Müller michael.muel...@mueller-bruehl.de het volgende geschreven: Francesco, I observe this list for years now (since I started using Cocon 2.1). And I recongnized some activities, especially from you. But since a couple of years I'm using a) a different technology (JSF) for my web pages and b) I'm waiting for Cocoon 3.0 to become ready. Even there are some acitivies, it seems to be a never ending story. I guess it would be helpfull to schedule some dates for beta and release. If it is so much to do right now, maybe this version might be feature-reduced and some of the planned features will be postponed to a version 3.1? Otherwise I'm afraid this project is dead - even though there are some activities. If your horse is dead, don't try to ride it anymore. Change the horse. (similar to Dakota saying) Herzliche Grüße - Best Regards, Michael Müller Am 10.11.2012 14:00, schrieb Francesco Chicchiriccò: Hi all, I think e-mails like the one below are not helpful at all. First of all, even though most of critical aspects of our current situation are reported, some things are barely wrong: down the same page you find the next most recent news is a year and a half old Open your favorite browser at http://cocoon.apache.org/ and read that latest two news are dated July 2nd and March 3rd 2012 When people ask about C2.x (and the latest released version is 2.2) nobody wants to talk about it (except others desperate for information about some aspect of C2); Just browse http://cocoon.markmail.org and judge by yourself whether this is true or not. There are no books on anything later than 2.1, which is about a decade old. Just point again your favorite browser to http://www.apache.org/dist/cocoon/ and you will see that Cocoon 2.1.11 was released on Jan 14th 2008. Perhaps 80% of the official documentation is either TBW or skeletal, and the only people who know the inside of Cocoon well enough to complete it keep asking others to do that. This is absolutely false for C2.X and only partially true for C3. Beware, I am not stating that the Cocoon status is healthy, new releases with bugfixes and new features are regularly made available and documentation is accurate and complete. I am only trying to look at the Cocoon project for what it is *today*: a project with: * very few active committers * almost no occasional contributors * still a lot of interested people: most because they are running an ancient Cocoon version, few because they've heard of Cocoon only recently In my opinion, a dead project is a project in which no one is interested, and Cocoon is not (yet?) that far. Remembering that Cocoon - like as any other project at ASF - is exclusively made up by volunteer contribution, I'd rather start a [DISCUSS] thread to see what needs to be done and who is available to help instead of such acid and unproductive e-mails. WDYT? Regards. On 08/11
Re: Is cocoon dead ?
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:28:39AM +0100, Francesco Chicchiriccò wrote: Hi all, for anyone interested more in contributing for make things change rather than ranting about autopsy and post-mortem status, I'd strongly suggest to take a look at [1], if need subscribe to dev@ ML, and join the discussion there. Regards. [1] http://markmail.org/message/n3xt6yio6vikanuh Thank you. I've read that thread and am encouraged. If I find something I can contribute, I surely will. I want Cocoon to prosper: I'm invested in a project that is heavily dependent on Cocoon. I've tried several times to find the place to start reading the code, and never found it. Maybe it's time to try again. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart. pgp1gCVviM4dA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Is cocoon dead ?
Francesco, I observe this list for years now (since I started using Cocon 2.1). And I recongnized some activities, especially from you. But since a couple of years I'm using a) a different technology (JSF) for my web pages and b) I'm waiting for Cocoon 3.0 to become ready. Even there are some acitivies, it seems to be a never ending story. I guess it would be helpfull to schedule some dates for beta and release. If it is so much to do right now, maybe this version might be feature-reduced and some of the planned features will be postponed to a version 3.1? Otherwise I'm afraid this project is dead - even though there are some activities. If your horse is dead, don't try to ride it anymore. Change the horse. (similar to Dakota saying) Herzliche Grüße - Best Regards, Michael Müller Am 10.11.2012 14:00, schrieb Francesco Chicchiriccò: Hi all, I think e-mails like the one below are not helpful at all. First of all, even though most of critical aspects of our current situation are reported, some things are barely wrong: down the same page you find the next most recent news is a year and a half old Open your favorite browser at http://cocoon.apache.org/ and read that latest two news are dated July 2nd and March 3rd 2012 When people ask about C2.x (and the latest released version is 2.2) nobody wants to talk about it (except others desperate for information about some aspect of C2); Just browse http://cocoon.markmail.org and judge by yourself whether this is true or not. There are no books on anything later than 2.1, which is about a decade old. Just point again your favorite browser to http://www.apache.org/dist/cocoon/ and you will see that Cocoon 2.1.11 was released on Jan 14th 2008. Perhaps 80% of the official documentation is either TBW or skeletal, and the only people who know the inside of Cocoon well enough to complete it keep asking others to do that. This is absolutely false for C2.X and only partially true for C3. Beware, I am not stating that the Cocoon status is healthy, new releases with bugfixes and new features are regularly made available and documentation is accurate and complete. I am only trying to look at the Cocoon project for what it is *today*: a project with: * very few active committers * almost no occasional contributors * still a lot of interested people: most because they are running an ancient Cocoon version, few because they've heard of Cocoon only recently In my opinion, a dead project is a project in which no one is interested, and Cocoon is not (yet?) that far. Remembering that Cocoon - like as any other project at ASF - is exclusively made up by volunteer contribution, I'd rather start a [DISCUSS] thread to see what needs to be done and who is available to help instead of such acid and unproductive e-mails. WDYT? Regards. On 08/11/2012 15:10, Mark H. Wood wrote: I'm not surprised at all. Looking 3cm. down the same page you find the next most recent news is a year and a half old. When people ask about C2.x (and the latest released version is 2.2) nobody wants to talk about it (except others desperate for information about some aspect of C2); one is told to use C3. C3 has been alpha for perhaps two years -- there is as yet no beta, let alone a release. There are no books on anything later than 2.1, which is about a decade old. Perhaps 80% of the official documentation is either TBW or skeletal, and the only people who know the inside of Cocoon well enough to complete it keep asking others to do that. Bugs with patches attached languish for years. Seemingly everyone using Cocoon is running a unique local version with scads of patches that are passed around like ancient lore. Why would anyone think Cocoon is dead? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@cocoon.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@cocoon.apache.org
Re: Is cocoon dead ?
Just being critical analytical: where die we observe the big drop in community activity ? Switch to Maven move from 2.1.11 to next version ? (just a guess) = What can we learn from this ? Bart Remmerie Op 11-nov.-2012 om 18:13 heeft Michael Müller michael.muel...@mueller-bruehl.de het volgende geschreven: Francesco, I observe this list for years now (since I started using Cocon 2.1). And I recongnized some activities, especially from you. But since a couple of years I'm using a) a different technology (JSF) for my web pages and b) I'm waiting for Cocoon 3.0 to become ready. Even there are some acitivies, it seems to be a never ending story. I guess it would be helpfull to schedule some dates for beta and release. If it is so much to do right now, maybe this version might be feature-reduced and some of the planned features will be postponed to a version 3.1? Otherwise I'm afraid this project is dead - even though there are some activities. If your horse is dead, don't try to ride it anymore. Change the horse. (similar to Dakota saying) Herzliche Grüße - Best Regards, Michael Müller Am 10.11.2012 14:00, schrieb Francesco Chicchiriccò: Hi all, I think e-mails like the one below are not helpful at all. First of all, even though most of critical aspects of our current situation are reported, some things are barely wrong: down the same page you find the next most recent news is a year and a half old Open your favorite browser at http://cocoon.apache.org/ and read that latest two news are dated July 2nd and March 3rd 2012 When people ask about C2.x (and the latest released version is 2.2) nobody wants to talk about it (except others desperate for information about some aspect of C2); Just browse http://cocoon.markmail.org and judge by yourself whether this is true or not. There are no books on anything later than 2.1, which is about a decade old. Just point again your favorite browser to http://www.apache.org/dist/cocoon/ and you will see that Cocoon 2.1.11 was released on Jan 14th 2008. Perhaps 80% of the official documentation is either TBW or skeletal, and the only people who know the inside of Cocoon well enough to complete it keep asking others to do that. This is absolutely false for C2.X and only partially true for C3. Beware, I am not stating that the Cocoon status is healthy, new releases with bugfixes and new features are regularly made available and documentation is accurate and complete. I am only trying to look at the Cocoon project for what it is *today*: a project with: * very few active committers * almost no occasional contributors * still a lot of interested people: most because they are running an ancient Cocoon version, few because they've heard of Cocoon only recently In my opinion, a dead project is a project in which no one is interested, and Cocoon is not (yet?) that far. Remembering that Cocoon - like as any other project at ASF - is exclusively made up by volunteer contribution, I'd rather start a [DISCUSS] thread to see what needs to be done and who is available to help instead of such acid and unproductive e-mails. WDYT? Regards. On 08/11/2012 15:10, Mark H. Wood wrote: I'm not surprised at all. Looking 3cm. down the same page you find the next most recent news is a year and a half old. When people ask about C2.x (and the latest released version is 2.2) nobody wants to talk about it (except others desperate for information about some aspect of C2); one is told to use C3. C3 has been alpha for perhaps two years -- there is as yet no beta, let alone a release. There are no books on anything later than 2.1, which is about a decade old. Perhaps 80% of the official documentation is either TBW or skeletal, and the only people who know the inside of Cocoon well enough to complete it keep asking others to do that. Bugs with patches attached languish for years. Seemingly everyone using Cocoon is running a unique local version with scads of patches that are passed around like ancient lore. Why would anyone think Cocoon is dead? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@cocoon.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@cocoon.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@cocoon.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@cocoon.apache.org
RE: Is cocoon dead ?
Hi Bart, I'd say we've learned people are reluctant to change.. even developers. But to be honest.. it was C2.2 forcing me to learn maven and I've been using it ever since for all new projects. Same holds true for Spring actually. And where I could understand the drop back then, maven or Spring can hardly be considered to be valid reasons not to use newer versions of Cocoon. I think I can agree on two things: C2.1 and C2.2 are pretty complete in what they have to offer. They are also pretty well documented. But most advanced users have moved to C2.2 or C3 and can't offer good support for the older versions. I guess it's the developers own responsibility to (NOT?) upgrade on a regular basis and dealing with corresponding consequences of his choice. C3 is already used in production and in my opinion easier to use. The biggest problem is it's still coined alpha. We should really focus on getting c3 1.0 out which will give users a more confident feeling API's won't break that easily. Robby -Original Message- From: Bart Remmerie [mailto:remme...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2012 9:21 PM To: users@cocoon.apache.org Cc: users@cocoon.apache.org Subject: Re: Is cocoon dead ? Just being critical analytical: where die we observe the big drop in community activity ? Switch to Maven move from 2.1.11 to next version ? (just a guess) = What can we learn from this ? Bart Remmerie Op 11-nov.-2012 om 18:13 heeft Michael Müller michael.muel...@mueller-bruehl.de het volgende geschreven: Francesco, I observe this list for years now (since I started using Cocon 2.1). And I recongnized some activities, especially from you. But since a couple of years I'm using a) a different technology (JSF) for my web pages and b) I'm waiting for Cocoon 3.0 to become ready. Even there are some acitivies, it seems to be a never ending story. I guess it would be helpfull to schedule some dates for beta and release. If it is so much to do right now, maybe this version might be feature-reduced and some of the planned features will be postponed to a version 3.1? Otherwise I'm afraid this project is dead - even though there are some activities. If your horse is dead, don't try to ride it anymore. Change the horse. (similar to Dakota saying) Herzliche Grüße - Best Regards, Michael Müller Am 10.11.2012 14:00, schrieb Francesco Chicchiriccò: Hi all, I think e-mails like the one below are not helpful at all. First of all, even though most of critical aspects of our current situation are reported, some things are barely wrong: down the same page you find the next most recent news is a year and a half old Open your favorite browser at http://cocoon.apache.org/ and read that latest two news are dated July 2nd and March 3rd 2012 When people ask about C2.x (and the latest released version is 2.2) nobody wants to talk about it (except others desperate for information about some aspect of C2); Just browse http://cocoon.markmail.org and judge by yourself whether this is true or not. There are no books on anything later than 2.1, which is about a decade old. Just point again your favorite browser to http://www.apache.org/dist/cocoon/ and you will see that Cocoon 2.1.11 was released on Jan 14th 2008. Perhaps 80% of the official documentation is either TBW or skeletal, and the only people who know the inside of Cocoon well enough to complete it keep asking others to do that. This is absolutely false for C2.X and only partially true for C3. Beware, I am not stating that the Cocoon status is healthy, new releases with bugfixes and new features are regularly made available and documentation is accurate and complete. I am only trying to look at the Cocoon project for what it is *today*: a project with: * very few active committers * almost no occasional contributors * still a lot of interested people: most because they are running an ancient Cocoon version, few because they've heard of Cocoon only recently In my opinion, a dead project is a project in which no one is interested, and Cocoon is not (yet?) that far. Remembering that Cocoon - like as any other project at ASF - is exclusively made up by volunteer contribution, I'd rather start a [DISCUSS] thread to see what needs to be done and who is available to help instead of such acid and unproductive e-mails. WDYT? Regards. On 08/11/2012 15:10, Mark H. Wood wrote: I'm not surprised at all. Looking 3cm. down the same page you find the next most recent news is a year and a half old. When people ask about C2.x (and the latest released version is 2.2) nobody wants to talk about it (except others desperate for information about some aspect of C2); one is told to use C3. C3 has been alpha for perhaps two years -- there is as yet no beta, let alone a release. There are no books on anything later than 2.1, which is about a decade old
Re: Is cocoon dead ?
Bart, If you guess, Maven is a problem, I second you. Maven might be great from the developer's view. But a poor (cocoon) user perfers just a simple setup. Thus Maven might scare users - and it did, when I tried the new version apx. 5 or 6 years ago. But from my point of view, tinker on a new realease for such a long time, is the really problem. Cocoon 2 is mainly in maintenance state. Some users still run it, thus there are some activities. Activities for Cocoon are much to little. Neither beta version nor a release is on the horizon. If this can't be changed soon, I'll predict Cocoon (3) to die. Just my 2 cents... Herzliche Grüße - Best Regards, Michael Müller Am 11.11.2012 21:20, schrieb Bart Remmerie: Just being critical analytical: where die we observe the big drop in community activity ? Switch to Maven move from 2.1.11 to next version ? (just a guess) = What can we learn from this ? Bart Remmerie Op 11-nov.-2012 om 18:13 heeft Michael Müller michael.muel...@mueller-bruehl.de het volgende geschreven: Francesco, I observe this list for years now (since I started using Cocon 2.1). And I recongnized some activities, especially from you. But since a couple of years I'm using a) a different technology (JSF) for my web pages and b) I'm waiting for Cocoon 3.0 to become ready. Even there are some acitivies, it seems to be a never ending story. I guess it would be helpfull to schedule some dates for beta and release. If it is so much to do right now, maybe this version might be feature-reduced and some of the planned features will be postponed to a version 3.1? Otherwise I'm afraid this project is dead - even though there are some activities. If your horse is dead, don't try to ride it anymore. Change the horse. (similar to Dakota saying) Herzliche Grüße - Best Regards, Michael Müller Am 10.11.2012 14:00, schrieb Francesco Chicchiriccò: Hi all, I think e-mails like the one below are not helpful at all. First of all, even though most of critical aspects of our current situation are reported, some things are barely wrong: down the same page you find the next most recent news is a year and a half old Open your favorite browser at http://cocoon.apache.org/ and read that latest two news are dated July 2nd and March 3rd 2012 When people ask about C2.x (and the latest released version is 2.2) nobody wants to talk about it (except others desperate for information about some aspect of C2); Just browse http://cocoon.markmail.org and judge by yourself whether this is true or not. There are no books on anything later than 2.1, which is about a decade old. Just point again your favorite browser to http://www.apache.org/dist/cocoon/ and you will see that Cocoon 2.1.11 was released on Jan 14th 2008. Perhaps 80% of the official documentation is either TBW or skeletal, and the only people who know the inside of Cocoon well enough to complete it keep asking others to do that. This is absolutely false for C2.X and only partially true for C3. Beware, I am not stating that the Cocoon status is healthy, new releases with bugfixes and new features are regularly made available and documentation is accurate and complete. I am only trying to look at the Cocoon project for what it is *today*: a project with: * very few active committers * almost no occasional contributors * still a lot of interested people: most because they are running an ancient Cocoon version, few because they've heard of Cocoon only recently In my opinion, a dead project is a project in which no one is interested, and Cocoon is not (yet?) that far. Remembering that Cocoon - like as any other project at ASF - is exclusively made up by volunteer contribution, I'd rather start a [DISCUSS] thread to see what needs to be done and who is available to help instead of such acid and unproductive e-mails. WDYT? Regards. On 08/11/2012 15:10, Mark H. Wood wrote: I'm not surprised at all. Looking 3cm. down the same page you find the next most recent news is a year and a half old. When people ask about C2.x (and the latest released version is 2.2) nobody wants to talk about it (except others desperate for information about some aspect of C2); one is told to use C3. C3 has been alpha for perhaps two years -- there is as yet no beta, let alone a release. There are no books on anything later than 2.1, which is about a decade old. Perhaps 80% of the official documentation is either TBW or skeletal, and the only people who know the inside of Cocoon well enough to complete it keep asking others to do that. Bugs with patches attached languish for years. Seemingly everyone using Cocoon is running a unique local version with scads of patches that are passed around like ancient lore. Why would anyone think Cocoon is dead? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@cocoon.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@cocoon.apache.org
Re: Is cocoon dead ?
...Activities for Cocoon 3 are much to little... Missing 3 in my contribution. Just for clarification. Herzliche Grüße - Best Regards, Michael Müller Am 11.11.2012 21:42, schrieb Michael Müller: Bart, If you guess, Maven is a problem, I second you. Maven might be great from the developer's view. But a poor (cocoon) user perfers just a simple setup. Thus Maven might scare users - and it did, when I tried the new version apx. 5 or 6 years ago. But from my point of view, tinker on a new realease for such a long time, is the really problem. Cocoon 2 is mainly in maintenance state. Some users still run it, thus there are some activities. Activities for Cocoon are much to little. Neither beta version nor a release is on the horizon. If this can't be changed soon, I'll predict Cocoon (3) to die. Just my 2 cents... Herzliche Grüße - Best Regards, Michael Müller Am 11.11.2012 21:20, schrieb Bart Remmerie: Just being critical analytical: where die we observe the big drop in community activity ? Switch to Maven move from 2.1.11 to next version ? (just a guess) = What can we learn from this ? Bart Remmerie Op 11-nov.-2012 om 18:13 heeft Michael Müller michael.muel...@mueller-bruehl.de het volgende geschreven: Francesco, I observe this list for years now (since I started using Cocon 2.1). And I recongnized some activities, especially from you. But since a couple of years I'm using a) a different technology (JSF) for my web pages and b) I'm waiting for Cocoon 3.0 to become ready. Even there are some acitivies, it seems to be a never ending story. I guess it would be helpfull to schedule some dates for beta and release. If it is so much to do right now, maybe this version might be feature-reduced and some of the planned features will be postponed to a version 3.1? Otherwise I'm afraid this project is dead - even though there are some activities. If your horse is dead, don't try to ride it anymore. Change the horse. (similar to Dakota saying) Herzliche Grüße - Best Regards, Michael Müller Am 10.11.2012 14:00, schrieb Francesco Chicchiriccò: Hi all, I think e-mails like the one below are not helpful at all. First of all, even though most of critical aspects of our current situation are reported, some things are barely wrong: down the same page you find the next most recent news is a year and a half old Open your favorite browser at http://cocoon.apache.org/ and read that latest two news are dated July 2nd and March 3rd 2012 When people ask about C2.x (and the latest released version is 2.2) nobody wants to talk about it (except others desperate for information about some aspect of C2); Just browse http://cocoon.markmail.org and judge by yourself whether this is true or not. There are no books on anything later than 2.1, which is about a decade old. Just point again your favorite browser to http://www.apache.org/dist/cocoon/ and you will see that Cocoon 2.1.11 was released on Jan 14th 2008. Perhaps 80% of the official documentation is either TBW or skeletal, and the only people who know the inside of Cocoon well enough to complete it keep asking others to do that. This is absolutely false for C2.X and only partially true for C3. Beware, I am not stating that the Cocoon status is healthy, new releases with bugfixes and new features are regularly made available and documentation is accurate and complete. I am only trying to look at the Cocoon project for what it is *today*: a project with: * very few active committers * almost no occasional contributors * still a lot of interested people: most because they are running an ancient Cocoon version, few because they've heard of Cocoon only recently In my opinion, a dead project is a project in which no one is interested, and Cocoon is not (yet?) that far. Remembering that Cocoon - like as any other project at ASF - is exclusively made up by volunteer contribution, I'd rather start a [DISCUSS] thread to see what needs to be done and who is available to help instead of such acid and unproductive e-mails. WDYT? Regards. On 08/11/2012 15:10, Mark H. Wood wrote: I'm not surprised at all. Looking 3cm. down the same page you find the next most recent news is a year and a half old. When people ask about C2.x (and the latest released version is 2.2) nobody wants to talk about it (except others desperate for information about some aspect of C2); one is told to use C3. C3 has been alpha for perhaps two years -- there is as yet no beta, let alone a release. There are no books on anything later than 2.1, which is about a decade old. Perhaps 80% of the official documentation is either TBW or skeletal, and the only people who know the inside of Cocoon well enough to complete it keep asking others to do that. Bugs with patches attached languish for years. Seemingly everyone using Cocoon is running a unique local version with scads of patches that are passed around like ancient lore. Why would anyone
Re: Is cocoon dead ?
Hi all, I think e-mails like the one below are not helpful at all. First of all, even though most of critical aspects of our current situation are reported, some things are barely wrong: down the same page you find the next most recent news is a year and a half old Open your favorite browser at http://cocoon.apache.org/ and read that latest two news are dated July 2nd and March 3rd 2012 When people ask about C2.x (and the latest released version is 2.2) nobody wants to talk about it (except others desperate for information about some aspect of C2); Just browse http://cocoon.markmail.org and judge by yourself whether this is true or not. There are no books on anything later than 2.1, which is about a decade old. Just point again your favorite browser to http://www.apache.org/dist/cocoon/ and you will see that Cocoon 2.1.11 was released on Jan 14th 2008. Perhaps 80% of the official documentation is either TBW or skeletal, and the only people who know the inside of Cocoon well enough to complete it keep asking others to do that. This is absolutely false for C2.X and only partially true for C3. Beware, I am not stating that the Cocoon status is healthy, new releases with bugfixes and new features are regularly made available and documentation is accurate and complete. I am only trying to look at the Cocoon project for what it is *today*: a project with: * very few active committers * almost no occasional contributors * still a lot of interested people: most because they are running an ancient Cocoon version, few because they've heard of Cocoon only recently In my opinion, a dead project is a project in which no one is interested, and Cocoon is not (yet?) that far. Remembering that Cocoon - like as any other project at ASF - is exclusively made up by volunteer contribution, I'd rather start a [DISCUSS] thread to see what needs to be done and who is available to help instead of such acid and unproductive e-mails. WDYT? Regards. On 08/11/2012 15:10, Mark H. Wood wrote: I'm not surprised at all. Looking 3cm. down the same page you find the next most recent news is a year and a half old. When people ask about C2.x (and the latest released version is 2.2) nobody wants to talk about it (except others desperate for information about some aspect of C2); one is told to use C3. C3 has been alpha for perhaps two years -- there is as yet no beta, let alone a release. There are no books on anything later than 2.1, which is about a decade old. Perhaps 80% of the official documentation is either TBW or skeletal, and the only people who know the inside of Cocoon well enough to complete it keep asking others to do that. Bugs with patches attached languish for years. Seemingly everyone using Cocoon is running a unique local version with scads of patches that are passed around like ancient lore. Why would anyone think Cocoon is dead? -- Francesco Chicchiriccò ASF Member, Apache Cocoon PMC and Apache Syncope PPMC Member http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@cocoon.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@cocoon.apache.org
Re: Is cocoon dead ?
Franceso, is there any documentation anywhere detailing the differences in Cocoon 3, or advances etc? Thanks so much. An old list member from all the way back to the first Cocoon book, etc. Dan Smith On 11/8/12, Francesco Chicchiriccò ilgro...@apache.org wrote: On 08/11/2012 05:14, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: As of today the page http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/cocoon/cocoon3/trunk/ shows that the most recent changes were 6 weeks ago. Is there any activity or plans to continue developing cocoon ? Hi Mansour, unfortunately this question keeps popping up: just search cocoon.markmail.org and you'll find plenty of wise and proper replies. I would only add some updates on this: * AFAICT my company and Thorsten's are regularly making (part of ) their business proposition on Cocoon 3; * here at ApacheCon EU 2012 there have been an hackaton and two talks mentioning (and introducing) Cocoon. If you want to leave an helping hand for Cocoon 2.X or 3, your contribution is heavily appreciated :-) Regards. -- Francesco Chicchiriccò ASF Member, Apache Cocoon PMC and Apache Syncope PPMC Member http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@cocoon.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@cocoon.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@cocoon.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@cocoon.apache.org
Re: Is cocoon dead ?
On 08/11/2012 12:55, Daniel Smith wrote: Franceso, is there any documentation anywhere detailing the differences in Cocoon 3, or advances etc? You can find a short summary at [1] and the complete documentation - still to be completed, any volunteer? - at [2] An old list member from all the way back to the first Cocoon book, etc. Cool :-) Regards. [1] http://cocoon.apache.org/3.0/features.html [2] http://cocoon.apache.org/3.0/reference/index.html -- Francesco Chicchiriccò ASF Member, Apache Cocoon PMC and Apache Syncope PPMC Member http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@cocoon.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@cocoon.apache.org
Re: Is cocoon dead ?
Hmm. What needs to be done to complete it? Just wondering. Dan :) On 11/8/12, Francesco Chicchiriccò ilgro...@apache.org wrote: On 08/11/2012 12:55, Daniel Smith wrote: Franceso, is there any documentation anywhere detailing the differences in Cocoon 3, or advances etc? You can find a short summary at [1] and the complete documentation - still to be completed, any volunteer? - at [2] An old list member from all the way back to the first Cocoon book, etc. Cool :-) Regards. [1] http://cocoon.apache.org/3.0/features.html [2] http://cocoon.apache.org/3.0/reference/index.html -- Francesco Chicchiriccò ASF Member, Apache Cocoon PMC and Apache Syncope PPMC Member http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@cocoon.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@cocoon.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@cocoon.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@cocoon.apache.org
Re: Is cocoon dead ?
On 08/11/2012 13:10, Daniel Smith wrote: Hmm. What needs to be done to complete it? Just wondering. Just search for TBW in http://cocoon.apache.org//3.0/reference/html-single/index.html ;-) Regards. On 11/8/12, Francesco Chicchiriccò ilgro...@apache.org wrote: On 08/11/2012 12:55, Daniel Smith wrote: Franceso, is there any documentation anywhere detailing the differences in Cocoon 3, or advances etc? You can find a short summary at [1] and the complete documentation - still to be completed, any volunteer? - at [2] An old list member from all the way back to the first Cocoon book, etc. Cool :-) Regards. [1] http://cocoon.apache.org/3.0/features.html [2] http://cocoon.apache.org/3.0/reference/index.html -- Francesco Chicchiriccò ASF Member, Apache Cocoon PMC and Apache Syncope PPMC Member http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@cocoon.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@cocoon.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@cocoon.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@cocoon.apache.org -- Francesco Chicchiriccò ASF Member, Apache Cocoon PMC and Apache Syncope PPMC Member http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/
AW: Is cocoon dead ?
A good starting point would be the Cocoon Site itself. http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/index.html http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/1420_1_1.html http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/1204_1_1.html http://cocoon.apache.org/3.0/features.html http://cocoon.apache.org/3.0/roadmap.html -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Daniel Smith [mailto:opened...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 8. November 2012 12:55 An: users@cocoon.apache.org Betreff: Re: Is cocoon dead ? Franceso, is there any documentation anywhere detailing the differences in Cocoon 3, or advances etc? Thanks so much. An old list member from all the way back to the first Cocoon book, etc. Dan Smith On 11/8/12, Francesco Chicchiriccò ilgro...@apache.org wrote: On 08/11/2012 05:14, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: As of today the page http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/cocoon/cocoon3/trunk/ shows that the most recent changes were 6 weeks ago. Is there any activity or plans to continue developing cocoon ? Hi Mansour, unfortunately this question keeps popping up: just search cocoon.markmail.org and you'll find plenty of wise and proper replies. I would only add some updates on this: * AFAICT my company and Thorsten's are regularly making (part of ) their business proposition on Cocoon 3; * here at ApacheCon EU 2012 there have been an hackaton and two talks mentioning (and introducing) Cocoon. If you want to leave an helping hand for Cocoon 2.X or 3, your contribution is heavily appreciated :-) Regards. -- Francesco Chicchiriccò ASF Member, Apache Cocoon PMC and Apache Syncope PPMC Member http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@cocoon.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@cocoon.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@cocoon.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@cocoon.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@cocoon.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@cocoon.apache.org
Re: Is cocoon dead ?
Sorry for top posting but I am writing from ApacheCon from my tablet. I am suprised actually about the question since 6 weeks is not really a long time and more in the context that close to all active committers are ATM here in Sinsheim and had to prepare presentation, travelling, ... Any way we had a hackathon about the future of cocoon and we are planning to introduce OSGI support finally into cocoon. However that is not a trivial task and we need all the helping hands we can get. In codeBusters.es we are using cocoon in various big client projects since over 7 year and let me asure that we keep on using it. Never forget cocoon (the project) is now 14 years old and this makes it pretty mature. Having said all this we are welcome anybody who are willing to help and let me asure you that cocoon is here to stay and it is and always will be the swiss army knife of xml processing. salu2 Thorsten Scherler thorsten.at.apache.org codeBusters S.L. - web based systems consulting, training and solutions http://www.codebusters.es On Nov 8, 2012 5:14 AM, Mansour Al Akeel mansour.alak...@gmail.com wrote: As of today the page http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/cocoon/cocoon3/trunk/ shows that the most recent changes were 6 weeks ago. Is there any activity or plans to continue developing cocoon ? Index of /cocoon/cocoon3/trunk Files shown:7 Directory revision: 1389975 (of 1406915) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@cocoon.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@cocoon.apache.org
Re: Is cocoon dead ?
I'm still getting Cocoon user list letter, please sign me out. On 8 November 2012 15:10, Thorsten Scherler scher...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for top posting but I am writing from ApacheCon from my tablet. I am suprised actually about the question since 6 weeks is not really a long time and more in the context that close to all active committers are ATM here in Sinsheim and had to prepare presentation, travelling, ... Any way we had a hackathon about the future of cocoon and we are planning to introduce OSGI support finally into cocoon. However that is not a trivial task and we need all the helping hands we can get. In codeBusters.es we are using cocoon in various big client projects since over 7 year and let me asure that we keep on using it. Never forget cocoon (the project) is now 14 years old and this makes it pretty mature. Having said all this we are welcome anybody who are willing to help and let me asure you that cocoon is here to stay and it is and always will be the swiss army knife of xml processing. salu2 Thorsten Scherler thorsten.at.apache.org codeBusters S.L. - web based systems consulting, training and solutions http://www.codebusters.es On Nov 8, 2012 5:14 AM, Mansour Al Akeel mansour.alak...@gmail.com wrote: As of today the page http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/cocoon/cocoon3/trunk/ shows that the most recent changes were 6 weeks ago. Is there any activity or plans to continue developing cocoon ? Index of /cocoon/cocoon3/trunk Files shown:7 Directory revision: 1389975 (of 1406915) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@cocoon.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@cocoon.apache.org
Re: Is cocoon dead ?
I'm not surprised at all. Looking 3cm. down the same page you find the next most recent news is a year and a half old. When people ask about C2.x (and the latest released version is 2.2) nobody wants to talk about it (except others desperate for information about some aspect of C2); one is told to use C3. C3 has been alpha for perhaps two years -- there is as yet no beta, let alone a release. There are no books on anything later than 2.1, which is about a decade old. Perhaps 80% of the official documentation is either TBW or skeletal, and the only people who know the inside of Cocoon well enough to complete it keep asking others to do that. Bugs with patches attached languish for years. Seemingly everyone using Cocoon is running a unique local version with scads of patches that are passed around like ancient lore. Why would anyone think Cocoon is dead? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart. pgp8zeUn5xgxV.pgp Description: PGP signature
