-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Raffael,
I am all for this idea - not very familiar with OPS4J, but their intentions sounds good. Definitely would allow more contributions to trickle in. So, count me in. Cheers, Johan Raffael Herzog wrote: > Hi all > > So, now it's official: HiveMind's development at Apache has stopped. Time to > move on and start over. ;) > > For me, one thing is clear: I will branch HiveMind, one way or the other. > The question for me is: Which way? > > As some of you may know, I'm developing and using HiveApp, an extension to > HiveMind which adds a VFS, ClassLoader management, built-in JMX support and > some useful services. There are many applications based on it in production > (and there will be many more) and its development continues, although it's > currently a one-man-show (everything's open though, and anyone is free to > join: http://hiveapp.raffael.ch/). > > So, from this point of view, the obvious thing to do is to take HiveMind's > source code, integrate it into HiveApp's source tree, and just continue > like that. > > However, now's the time to look further. ;) HiveMind, as it is now, is good, > but it's gotten a bit outdated, and development as officially stalled. I've > got many ideas what to do with HiveMind (you can find some of them in > HiveApp) and I'm sure, there are more people with ideas. This is the time > to progressively move forward, because there won't be any HiveMind 1.2 or > 2.0 anymore. But there may be a HiveSomethingElse 0.1. > > The question is: If you had commit rights for HiveMind's source code > tomorrow, would you start contributing? > > The idea is to branch HiveMind at OPS4J (http://www.ops4j.org/). OPS4J > stands for "Open Participation Software for Java", a relatively young and > active FOSS community. "Open Participation" means basically Wiki brought to > coding. Anyone can start contributing: Just register yourself, and you've > immediately got commit access to all of OPS4J's SVN. At OPS4J, if you find > a bug, you don't submit a patch which fixes it and wait for a committer to > apply your patch. At OPS4J, you commit the fix yourself. OPS4J provides all > the infrastructure one needs: Version control (SVN), bug tracking (JIRA), > Wiki (Confluence), CI (Bamboo), mailing lists, web space ... > > Introduction to OPS4J: http://wiki.ops4j.org/display/ops4j/Introduction > > I think, this community might be just the right thing to kickstart > HiveMind's development. I've already talked to some people at OPS4J about > it, they'd happily welcome the HiveMind community. > > However, the question remains: Are there people who would actually > contribute? > > What do you think? > > Cheers, > Raffi > - -- you too? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ6Ha7pHYnED7evioRAiDdAJ9pgRQ+B3B1bxHDaUqI0hNDhmF3RgCePRWH Nx3ymRS0a/AkAsvdBTPlIp8= =cV41 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
