Exactly (I wrote something similar, but it apparently was declared spam:().
We could of course improve our structure as always, lifting the level a bit.
As I see it wicketstuff are as ops4j, which brings advantages and
disadvantages as well.

-regards Nino

2010/3/18 Martin Grigorov <mcgreg...@e-card.bg>

> Here is how I understand wicketstuff hosting:
>
> Someone makes something cool and decides to share it with the community.
> Then this person asks in the mailing lists for commit permissions. After
> that this person jumps into something else and don't have time to
> support the project. Later on I need this cool feature and the first
> place to look for it is wicketstuff.org (you know because of the
> advertising in the mailing lists). Then I add or improve something to
> this project and again share it with the community. After me someone
> else does the same and the project lives. Otherwise some volunteer (like
> Jeremy) decides that this project is not maintained and moves it to
> attic.
>
> About GoogleCode, github, bitbucket, ... yes, you can put your project
> there. But there are two problems:
> 1) it is less visible
> it is not next to the other wicketstuff projects where everyone checks
> first
> 2) when you don't have time to support it you need to give commit
> permissions to the people who have time or they will start clone it all
> over Internet. And this will just confuse further future
> users/maintainers
>
> On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 15:25 -0400, Boris Goldowsky wrote:
> > It sounds like whoever is responsible for wicketstuff needs to make a
> > clear choice here.
> >
> > Is Wicketstuff going to be maintained as a place where lots of useful
> > add-ons will live?  If so, it needs someone to take a slightly more
> > active role as curator; make sure the releases are done in parallel with
> > wicket releases, make sure modules don't get dumped there without at
> > least some documentation; and weed out modules that are abandoned, where
> > no one volunteers to take on maintenance, or whose function has been
> > absorbed into wicket's core.
> >
> > Alternatively, make it clear that wicketstuff is NOT going to be
> > maintained, and people like me who would like to share modules will
> > share them in some other way - on Google code, a personal website, or
> > whatever.
> >
> > Either way is ok I think, it just would be useful for those of us who
> > are interested in contributing modules to know.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Bng
> >
> >
> > Jeremy Thomerson wrote:
> > > Really, it should match what's at trunk of Wicket, which should be
> > > 1.5-SNAPSHOT.  There should be a branch for 1.4.x that is 1.4-SNAPSHOT.
> > >  But, nobody is really maintaining it any more, so it's a free-for-all.
> > >  That's always been the problem with WicketStuff.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jeremy Thomerson
> > > http://www.wickettraining.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Boris Goldowsky <bgoldow...@cast.org
> >wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >> The wicketstuff-core is calling itself version 1.4.2 in the HEAD of
> SVN.
> > >> Shouldn't this be updated to 1.4.7 now to keep in sync with Wicket?
> > >>
> > >> Bng
> > >>
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