On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 2:03 PM Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote: > > Architectural interest in the feature/product is a very different thing > than interest in maintaining and testing said product ;) > > I read Christopher's reply in a "there isn't interest in contributing > more to the service by the current, active developers" tone, in the > spirit of ASF's "do-oracy" approach. We would be very welcome for people > to come along and do more with it and separating it from the core > repository helps individuals see the fruits of their labor much more > quickly.
It's not so much that "there isn't", but an observation that "there hasn't been", but yes, this is basically it. In a separate repo, it can live or die on its own. If there is interest, I hope it lives. If not, I'd hate for it to be a drag for those actively maintaining the core project components. Modularizing our development by separating out components into their own repos when they aren't (or don't need to be) tightly coupled to the core components, means developers can focus on the components they care most about, without worrying about the rest. Both the proxy and the maven-plugin fell into this category and moved to their own repo. We've already done a release of the maven-plugin from its new repo. If there's interest, we can do the same for the proxy. In future, we could do the same for the custom classloader stuff (possibly), and the tracer sink service.
