Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-07 Thread Joerg Heinicke
On 06.12.2005 13:18, Steven Noels wrote: I'm surprised to finally see evidence of an anti-OSGI camp in Cocoon. Not that this surprises me, but it's just sad that this hasn't been clarified much earlier. That damned community tax again, I guess. Waste of time and energy for everyone. At leas

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-07 Thread Joerg Heinicke
On 04.12.2005 17:00, Sylvain Wallez wrote: Start a whiteboard prototype if you feel like it, but to me it seem quite risky to try to rewrite everything from scratch, although I have felt the urge myself countless time while struggling with the messy internals. But before you go ahead and rewri

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-06 Thread Berin Loritsch
Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: Berin Loritsch wrote: I will continue to be proud of our brand, our product and our community. And I will continue the work on *Cocoon* towards the future in an evolutionary way, so that those who have put their trust in us have a reasonable migration path to follow.

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-06 Thread Daniel Fagerstrom
Berin Loritsch wrote: Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: To me: * throwing away the collected work of the community * building something rather different * throwing away a strong brand * leave all the users who has put a trust in us behind seem like a rather strange way of "saving" Cocoon. It seemed

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-06 Thread Daniel Fagerstrom
Romano Trampus wrote: Sorry, I read "spots" of this list and somebody could have written the same: I think the cocoon package is too big. I would prefer a core and a lot of plugins, not in the same distribution. I think the cocoon package is great but confusing. With plugins you have not to ca

RE: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-06 Thread Romano Trampus
thing must have the same maturity level. And if I need a plugin I have only to download that, just as I do that with eclipse. bye romano -Original Message- From: Berin Loritsch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: martedì 6 dicembre 2005 14.44 To: dev@cocoon.apache.org Subject: Re: [RT] The

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-06 Thread Berin Loritsch
Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: To me: * throwing away the collected work of the community * building something rather different * throwing away a strong brand * leave all the users who has put a trust in us behind seem like a rather strange way of "saving" Cocoon. It seemed like a rather strange

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-06 Thread hepabolu
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Le 6 déc. 05, à 10:12, Ugo Cei a écrit : ...I also see "Too soon" on that list, which might be descriptive of the feelings of some people on this list ;). It might be too soon to choose a name for something which doesn't exist yet...but choosing a "code name" help

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-06 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Steven Noels wrote: On 06 Dec 2005, at 12:04, Sylvain Wallez wrote: Steven Noels wrote: On 06 Dec 2005, at 09:59, Sylvain Wallez wrote: Struts has Shale Meeep. Bu. Wrong. Struts has Craig. And Tapestry has Howard and Spring has Rod. What do you mean? I meant to say that Struts is

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-06 Thread Steven Noels
On 06 Dec 2005, at 12:04, Sylvain Wallez wrote: Steven Noels wrote: On 06 Dec 2005, at 09:59, Sylvain Wallez wrote: Struts has Shale Meeep. Bu. Wrong. Struts has Craig. And Tapestry has Howard and Spring has Rod. What do you mean? I meant to say that Struts is a bad example since i

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-06 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Steven Noels wrote: On 06 Dec 2005, at 09:59, Sylvain Wallez wrote: Struts has Shale Meeep. Bu. Wrong. Struts has Craig. And Tapestry has Howard and Spring has Rod. What do you mean? That Cocoon misses someone that can fully dedicate to it and plays the benevolent dictator? Sylvain

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-06 Thread Steven Noels
On 06 Dec 2005, at 09:59, Sylvain Wallez wrote: Struts has Shale Meeep. Bu. Wrong. Struts has Craig. It's a telltale of Cocoon's problem that we're off discussing marketing techniques and branding again, without having any design, code, nor dedication to boot with. A busy thread just

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-06 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Ugo Cei wrote: Il giorno 06/dic/05, alle ore 10:01, Sylvain Wallez ha scritto: Il like this friendly animal and the rhyme with Cocoon. Now there's also "Baboon" :-) Have a look at http://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?Word=cocoon&typeofrhyme=perfect&org1=syl&org2=l I also see "Too soon"

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-06 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 6 déc. 05, à 10:17, Matthew Langham a écrit : Where is the vision? Delivering some of the unique things that are inside Cocoon in much smaller independent packages, to make them useful to people who don't need all of Cocoon. Dunno if this qualifies as a vision, but it's how I see it ;-)

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-06 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Matthew Langham wrote: No, the brand is not strong. Look around among people that have *not* used Cocoon and ask them what it is. Most of them will tell you "it's a publishing engine", or even "it's a tool to perform XSL transformations". What we have now and what we're building is much mor

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-06 Thread Daniel Fagerstrom
To me: * throwing away the collected work of the community * building something rather different * throwing away a strong brand * leave all the users who has put a trust in us behind seem like a rather strange way of "saving" Cocoon. I will continue to be proud of our brand, our product and our

RE: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-06 Thread Matthew Langham
> > No, the brand is not strong. > > Look around among people that have *not* used Cocoon and ask > them what it is. Most of them will tell you "it's a > publishing engine", or even "it's a tool to perform XSL > transformations". > > What we have now and what we're building is much more than

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-06 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 6 déc. 05, à 10:12, Ugo Cei a écrit : ...I also see "Too soon" on that list, which might be descriptive of the feelings of some people on this list ;). It might be too soon to choose a name for something which doesn't exist yet...but choosing a "code name" helps clarifying what we're talki

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-06 Thread Ugo Cei
Il giorno 06/dic/05, alle ore 10:01, Sylvain Wallez ha scritto: Il like this friendly animal and the rhyme with Cocoon. Now there's also "Baboon" :-) Have a look at http://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi? Word=cocoon&typeofrhyme=perfect&org1=syl&org2=l I also see "Too soon" on that list, wh

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-06 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Ugo Cei wrote: Il giorno 06/dic/05, alle ore 01:24, David Crossley ha scritto: I started to draft here what the next-generation Cocoon should be. I dubbed it "Racoon" (with Andrew's permission) as I really think that from a marketing point of view, a new name should be used so that people don

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-06 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Marc Portier wrote: David Crossley wrote: Please don't. Cocoon is the name +1, same opinion here the brand is strong enough, and can cope with major release numbers that indicate we had serious new insights No, the brand is not strong. Look around among people that have *not* used C

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-06 Thread Ugo Cei
Il giorno 06/dic/05, alle ore 01:24, David Crossley ha scritto: I started to draft here what the next-generation Cocoon should be. I dubbed it "Racoon" (with Andrew's permission) as I really think that from a marketing point of view, a new name should be used so that people don't see it as a

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-05 Thread Reinhard Poetz
--- Marc Portier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > David Crossley wrote: > > Sylvain Wallez wrote: > > > >>Peter Hunsberger wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Perhaps an area on the Wiki to discuss straw man > features and > >>>requirements for a 3.0 release would be a good > thing? > >> > >>See > ht

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-05 Thread Ralph Goers
Peter Hunsberger wrote: I think it makes some sense to start talking about what a 3.0 might look like. Two main reason for that: First, it is good to always have a long term architectural direction in front of you. It is one of the ways to help keep the community focused on what they are do

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-05 Thread Marc Portier
David Crossley wrote: > Sylvain Wallez wrote: > >>Peter Hunsberger wrote: >> >> >> >>>Perhaps an area on the Wiki to discuss straw man features and >>>requirements for a 3.0 release would be a good thing? >> >>See http://cocoon.zones.apache.org/daisy/test/g1/792.html (BTW, how do >>we create a

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-05 Thread David Crossley
Gianugo Rabellino wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > Gianugo Rabellino wrote: > > > Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: > > > > > > > It is so easy to ditch other peoples work, isn't it? > > > > > > Oh, come on Daniel, you're taking this personally. > > > > I reckon that Daniel has hit on many important issue

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-05 Thread David Crossley
Sylvain Wallez wrote: > Peter Hunsberger wrote: > > > > >Perhaps an area on the Wiki to discuss straw man features and > >requirements for a 3.0 release would be a good thing? > > See http://cocoon.zones.apache.org/daisy/test/g1/792.html (BTW, how do > we create a new book in Daisy?) > > I st

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-05 Thread Bruno Dumon
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 17:15 +0100, Sylvain Wallez wrote: > Peter Hunsberger wrote: > > > > > Perhaps an area on the Wiki to discuss straw man features and > > requirements for a 3.0 release would be a good thing? > > See http://cocoon.zones.apache.org/daisy/test/g1/792.html (BTW, how do > we c

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-05 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Peter Hunsberger wrote: Perhaps an area on the Wiki to discuss straw man features and requirements for a 3.0 release would be a good thing? See http://cocoon.zones.apache.org/daisy/test/g1/792.html (BTW, how do we create a new book in Daisy?) I started to draft here what the next-generati

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-05 Thread Peter Hunsberger
On 12/4/05, Ralph Goers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sylvain Wallez wrote: > > > To last for a long time, a company/community has to make sure it has > > some customers/users. The new features in 2.2, if you look at them are > > more about managing complexity than bringing real new stuff. Is it > >

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-05 Thread Gianugo Rabellino
On 12/5/05, David Crossley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gianugo Rabellino wrote: > > Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: > > > > > It is so easy to ditch other peoples work, isn't it? > > > > Oh, come on Daniel, you're taking this personally. > > I reckon that Daniel has hit on many important issues > related

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-04 Thread Jorg Heymans
Gianugo Rabellino wrote: Well, I think I do know at least something that blocks will buy us. But again, what I'm questioning is whether the problems that blocks solve are self-inflicted pains (love that wording, Berin) or real problems that have a direct impact on users. So far what I'm see

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-04 Thread Carsten Ziegeler
Sylvain Wallez wrote: > To last for a long time, a company/community has to make sure it has > some customers/users. The new features in 2.2, if you look at them are > more about managing complexity than bringing real new stuff. Is it > something that will bring lots of new users? I don't think

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-04 Thread David Crossley
Gianugo Rabellino wrote: > Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: > > > It is so easy to ditch other peoples work, isn't it? > > Oh, come on Daniel, you're taking this personally. I reckon that Daniel has hit on many important issues related to community-building. If people are not careful then we are going to

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-04 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: How can you be so certain that we would getting less complicated if we started from scratch? It might be complicated because it does something complicated. As long as you don't understand the internals you cannot really know, can you? I do. And you don't know how man

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-04 Thread Gianugo Rabellino
On 12/4/05, Daniel Fagerstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gianugo Rabellino wrote: > > >Daniel, > > > >thank you for taking the time to write this. I understand your > >frustration, since the behaviour you're describing in your email has > >clearly been a recurring pattern lately on [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-04 Thread Daniel Fagerstrom
Gianugo Rabellino wrote: Daniel, thank you for taking the time to write this. I understand your frustration, since the behaviour you're describing in your email has clearly been a recurring pattern lately on [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, I'd like to ask you to try and see beyond what happened, So

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-04 Thread Ralph Goers
Sylvain Wallez wrote: To last for a long time, a company/community has to make sure it has some customers/users. The new features in 2.2, if you look at them are more about managing complexity than bringing real new stuff. Is it something that will bring lots of new users? I don't think so.

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-04 Thread Gianugo Rabellino
Daniel, thank you for taking the time to write this. I understand your frustration, since the behaviour you're describing in your email has clearly been a recurring pattern lately on [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, I'd like to ask you to try and see beyond what happened, asking yourself why we have bee

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-04 Thread Daniel Fagerstrom
Sylvain Wallez wrote: Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: Start a whiteboard prototype if you feel like it, but to me it seem quite risky to try to rewrite everything from scratch, although I have felt the urge myself countless time while struggling with the messy internals. But before you go ahead a

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-04 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: Start a whiteboard prototype if you feel like it, but to me it seem quite risky to try to rewrite everything from scratch, although I have felt the urge myself countless time while struggling with the messy internals. But before you go ahead and rewrite everything fro

Re: [RT] The next shiny thing?

2005-12-04 Thread Reinhard Poetz
Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: The main problem with our community, IMO, is the lack of focus and persistance. We have so many great ideas, but as large parts of the community always are running towards the next shiny thing and have very little interest in polishing the design, contracts and implemen