Re: Community building...

2018-07-20 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 9:48 PM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > For everyone's notice; The PMC has decided to keep Apache Polygene going. > There is still 5 people who placed votes to recommend Jiri Jetmar as the > new PMC Chair, and I will submit a resolution to the Board for their next > meeting (Augus

Re: Community building...

2018-07-17 Thread Niclas Hedhman
For everyone's notice; The PMC has decided to keep Apache Polygene going. There is still 5 people who placed votes to recommend Jiri Jetmar as the new PMC Chair, and I will submit a resolution to the Board for their next meeting (August). Jiri brought up "blockchain" as a possible integration poin

Re: Community building...

2018-07-06 Thread Niclas Hedhman
Uhhh... A Composite Oriented Programming Language. In essence, a lot of the things that are now detected at boot time could be compile errors. But how it would otherwise be, your guess is as good as mine. I would probably be less "everything is an object" and explore more nuanced approaches, with

Re: Community building...

2018-07-05 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 5:25 PM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > I understand your point about "fundamentally different than the language" > part, and that was some of the expert's questions back at the start, "This > should be done in a new language", and we rebutted that the effort needed > would be magn

Re: Community building...

2018-07-04 Thread Niclas Hedhman
It means http://attic.apache.org/ It will be 'frozen' and indication that there is no longer a community around to fix anything, but the last state of it is for anyone to use if they want to. I understand your point about "fundamentally different than the language" part, and that was some of the

Re: Community building...

2018-07-04 Thread Stanislav Muhametsin
Hi Niclas, It's sad to hear these news. I agree with you on on the "falling back to the grind of doing a lot of monotonous work manually" point. I recently started work on Java-related project, where coincidentally Hadoop and microservices are at the core of the system, and the grind you menti

Re: Community building...

2018-07-03 Thread Niclas Hedhman
No, I haven't looked at stats. But I figured that if people try to use it, they would show up with questions rather quickly, as has happened a handful of times the last 7-8 years. Looking now; Core API is the most needed package (unless using the SDK directly), and we have a peak in Oct'17 of 35 D

Re: Community building...

2018-07-03 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 1:38 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > Gang, > > One thing that we didn't manage to do as an Apache project was to build a > community. On one hand Polygene is too different from "conventional > programming" for people to get their head around it, and on the other hand > Polygene

Community building...

2018-07-02 Thread Niclas Hedhman
Gang, One thing that we didn't manage to do as an Apache project was to build a community. On one hand Polygene is too different from "conventional programming" for people to get their head around it, and on the other hand Polygene is not fashionable in a world where everything is moving towards p