Hi Emmanuel, Speaking for Continuent, we still have a strong interest in Sequoia and are continuing development on the commercial side.
1.) Open source contributions to Sequoia. We made a decision recently to open source the commercial extensions to Sequoia, which is to say the code that makes up uni/cluster. I was going to make an announcement this month so I might as well announce it now. This includes tests as well as the GUI console. We plan to release under GPL to protect the IP from commercial exploitation. If there¹s a reasonable way to release docs, we will do this as well. 2.) On-going development. We are continuing development on Sequoia and related code though at this time most of our effort goes into projects like myosotis and hedera. We also plan to keep supporting uni/cluster. We therefore have an abiding interest in this code. 3.) Hosting. Ironically enough, we are moving our hosting into Amazon where we can actually use our own technology to protect the code and data better. There have been a series pretty bad outages at the current location for reasons outside our control. Also, the Forge badly needs an upgrade and clean-up. This is a good time to discuss the next steps, especially on hosting. In principle I have nothing against a ³neutral² location for Sequoia but would point out that we are in fact pretty involved, especially in related projects. Though we are less involved in the core of Sequoia these days we still support the project in a number of ways and wish to see it continue to prosper. Looking forward to additional discussion, Robert On 1/20/09 9:23 AM, "Emmanuel Cecchet" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am planning to release soon a first beta version of Sequoia 4. The > main issues at hand are: > - lack of documentation (I don't have access to the sources of the > Continuent documentation) > - lack of test suite (Continuent did not release the Sequoia test suite > under open source) > > As there also seems that Sequoia is not on Continuent's main agenda > anymore (at least in terms of new developments), it is legitimate to > reconsider the hosting of the project in a more neutral place such as > sf.net or open source communities such as ObjectWeb (eventually under > the C-JDBC project) or Apache. As I am currently the only developer, I > can also host the new releases on my web site frogthinker.org. > > I'd like to hear from you on what you think should be done for Sequoia 4 > and beyond. If you can help with documentation, hosting or testing, > don't hesitate to let me know. > > Thanks for supporting Sequoia, > Emmanuel > > -- > Emmanuel Cecchet > FTO @ Frog Thinker > Open Source Development & Consulting > -- > Web: http://www.frogthinker.org > email: [email protected] > Skype: emmanuel_cecchet > > _______________________________________________ > Sequoia mailing list > [email protected] > https://forge.continuent.org/mailman/listinfo/sequoia > -- Robert Hodges, CTO, Continuent, Inc. Email: [email protected] Mobile: +1-510-501-3728 Skype: hodgesrm _______________________________________________ Sequoia mailing list [email protected] https://forge.continuent.org/mailman/listinfo/sequoia
