Re: [Webwork-devel] WW/JavaOne get together

[Mike Cannon-B. <mi...@at...>]

Might I just say upfront how refreshing this discussion is. Too many Open
Source projects are run by arrogant a**holes (no names ;)) who don't make
decisions by consulting their users - I think Rickard et al are doing a
great job of that!

On 4/4/02 8:05 AM, "Rickard" (ri...@mi...) penned the
words:

> Chris Miller wrote:
>> OpenSymphony's 'umbrella' struture parallels
>> Jakarta which will help ease the transition for new users. There have been
>> several other fairly compelling reasons mentioned on this list, all of which
>> to me make the move seem very sensible indeed.
> 
> 
> The main reason against OpenSymphony (that I can think of) is the high
> quality differences between the projects. Some are outstanding and some
> are, well, on the other side of the scale.

Agreed. Now that I'm back from JavaOne I have two tasks - one being to
release JIRA 1.0 (<plug> http://www.atlassian.com/beta/jira </plug> ;)) and
the other being to revamp the OpenSymphony site.

The revamp is basically to achieve two things:
1) include more information on the released and stable components, and
documentation
2) remove / hide all of the cruft (which is exactly what you're saying
here). 

I don't want to 'kill' the cruft, I want to hide it in an attic (until such
time as it dies completely or becomes a stable, high quality component). I
think there is a delicate balance that needs to be struck between having
alpha quality, developing Open Source components (which are needed to become
fully fledged, quality components!) and having stable, released, trusted
components.

The idea being that we advertise the latter, whilst still providing access
to the former if you're hardcore/stupid/masochistic ;)

The 'stable' component suite will then be:
- OSCore
- OSUser
- SiteMesh
- OSCache
- Transform Tags 

Hope this helps clear up some of the confusion. Our aim is not to become
Jakarta (a dumping ground for random pieces of code of totally varying
quality) but to provide top quality J2EE components, whilst still giving
access to the alpha stuff if you want it.

Cheers,
Mike