I guess I'll add my voice to this thread to say that I feel the same
way.   The activity level here seems to dwindling.  Major new features
are a rarity.  I almost never see interesting blog posts about stripes
or references to stripes on the wider web any more.   Even on this
mailing list, desipte a really helpful community amongst the loyal
folks here there doesn't seem to be much futuristic discussion about
stripes, it is all just solving small issues, minor problems.   The
documentation which used to be excellent now has a slightly
disorganized feel, like a garden that is growing weeds.  A while ago I
posted about a patch to add a new annotation to stripes - and got zero
responses (for reference, see
http://www.badboy.com.au/stripes/import.html).   None of these things
by themselves is a problem but they all point the same, slightly
worrying way - it seems like Stripes has lost its "mojo".

And the sad thing is that I would probably have second thoughts about
recommending Stripes now purely because it unclear to me what the
future of it is.   I don't know what the solution is.  Perhaps Java
web frameworks are just not "sexy" any more so there is no way to fix
this (anyone interested to see Stripes morphed into a Scala or Groovy
based solution?).  Perhaps there is no problem at all and we should
all just go on using Stripes and be happy with it.

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