If I remember correctly, one of the benefits of the move to maven2 was supposed to be the creation of Tapestry sub-projects with their own commiters, where both contributors and components could be nurtured.
What about a tapestry-ide subproject that Hugo and some other intrepid volunteers could get commit rights to, without getting commit rights to core/contrib/etc? This sub-project could contain core IDE support, with perhaps subprojects (tapestry-idea, tapestry-eclipse or whatever) for thin adaptors to IDEA, Eclipse, etc. My 2ยข is that Tapestry would benefit from official IDE tooling with a team behind it (rather than one-person efforts), and this certainly won't happen anytime soon if left to the current core developers (though Jesse does seem to possess superhuman time management abilities). Just an idea... feel free to shoot it down. Daniel On 8/28/06, Hugo Palma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Since Geoff decided to leave the Spindle project i've been thinking about the future of TapIDEA. As many of you know, TapIDEA is built on top of Spindle, which means "No Spindle" -> "No TapIDEA". There are several scenarios that can be put into account in the current situation, and after a long consideration here are my conclusions. Someone else picks up Spindle where Geoff left off: I honestly don't think this is going to happen. AFAIK Spindle was a one man project so no one else has the know how to quickly get into gear with the project. Some might think that that person could be me, and indeed i've become familiar with Spindle internals during the development of TapIDEA. But, there's the free time factor. I just wouldn't be able to find the time to do it. Still, if this scenario were to be become true, TapIDEA would live on. Spindle for T4 dies, a new project is born: Ok, so no Spindle and no TapIDEA for T4. What about T5 ? As Geoff as pointed out, T5 support is going to require an almost complete rewrite of Spindle. So, in this scenario someone would implement Spindle(or create a whole new project) for IDE support for T5, and TapIDEA would follow. I find that this is the scenario with the most chances of becoming reality. Spindle and TapIDEA die for good: Well, there's always the possibility that no one will volunteer to continue our efforts of bringing IDE support to Tapestry. In this scenario both Spindle and TapIDEA end their lives now. The TapIDEA project will be "hibernating" until one of these(or any other) scenarios become reality. I guess now it's up to the community to present their ideas about this. I hope that, together, we can give our contribution to making Tapestry IDE support a reality. Cheers, Hugo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
