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Norman Maurer reassigned JAMES-911:
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Assignee: Norman Maurer
> Migrate from Avalon to something else
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> Key: JAMES-911
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-911
> Project: JAMES Server
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: James Core
> Affects Versions: Trunk
> Reporter: Serhiy
> Assignee: Norman Maurer
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> Reasons:
> 1. Apache Avalon project was closed in 2004. There are no software projects
> without bugs. And Avalon bugs are not resolved for years!
> 2. You can't find any documentation about Apache Avalon!
> I am a java developer and I was interested in Apache James project and even
> was going to start contributing some code. But when I started to investigate
> more about James I could not understand how you could use something that is
> years old, have no active maintenance and development and even don't have any
> public documentation. I even can't find any details about what exactly Avalon
> does! I am absolutely positive that there are a lot of modern alternatives to
> some Avalon. From the other point of view if Avalon was something good it
> would not have been closed. Avalon is closed and this means that nobody was
> interested in it and nobody really needed it.
> If you want to attract some non payed developers to your open source project
> it should be interesting for them to work with your project. But there are
> references from your site to http://avalon.apache.org/ and when new
> developers see that site it does not encourage him/her to start to dig deeper.
> Avalon is dead. You need to move forward!
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