Hello Christopher, just to make it clear. I AM willing to participate and contribute. I was the pushing force on the Spring 4 dependency upgrade. And meanwhile our cocoon 2 instance runs on spring 5 and java 11 – so I have some stuff, which I would love to get into the OS project again. As I said I would like to contribute further to make cocoon 2 compatible with state-of-the-art dependencies like java 21 and spring 6. However I need some help to become a formal contributor. Maybee you could help me in that? Thank you Gabriel
From: Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> Date: Monday, 20. November 2023 at 10:08 To: dev@cocoon.apache.org <dev@cocoon.apache.org> Subject: AW: Now that the release is out, what's next? Hi all, let me mention one thing here … Open-Source is not a need-driven thing, that anyone is entitled to exist to solve one owns needs. It’s an initiative-driven thing that anyone can participate. So, if you need some open-source solution, you should consider actively contributing. Because if nobody contributes, then the open-source project will die and move into the attic. An alternative for this is that people and companies can pay someone else to participate in their place. But in the end, if nobody works on it, it’s going to go into the attic. I hope with my general overhaul of the build and project structure, I have made contributing and releasing a lot simpler, but I’m not planning on keeping the lights on, if I’m the only one working. Chris Von: Gabriel Gruber <gabriel.gru...@workflow.at> Datum: Sonntag, 19. November 2023 um 19:55 An: dev@cocoon.apache.org <dev@cocoon.apache.org> Betreff: Re: Now that the release is out, what's next? Hi cocoon team, as we are still using cocoon 2.2 in PROD as base for our product, we have a high interest that the open source project stays alive. Our main motivation here would be framework and java compatibility as well as security patches. Of course I am also willing to actively support and maintain. A great improvement would be, if the source-code could move to github. Thanks Chris for your enormous efforts to get this release through! Thanks to all the committers for building such a great and long lasting project. Gabriel From: insigh...@gmail.com <insigh...@gmail.com> Date: Sunday, 19. November 2023 at 19:36 To: dev@cocoon.apache.org <dev@cocoon.apache.org> Subject: Re: Now that the release is out, what's next? I mentioned this early, the DSpace Content Management project used Cocoon 2.2 until version 6.4 (v7 moved to Angular JS). They integrated with Solr and did a bunch of other things that may be worth a look. The Cocoon interface was called xmlui (look for the subfolder), and available via Github: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/releases Source Code: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/archive/refs/tags/dspace-6.4.tar.gz Great work on continuing the Cocoon legacy! Dan On 2023-11-19 10:20 a.m., Christofer Dutz wrote: Hi folks, So, it seems that we finally have finished the last missing steps to formally get the release out the door. Now I think comes a time where we should reflect and discuss, what should happen with the Project. So instead of simply saying: Releasing it was such a struggle (not technically, but from a participation side) I wouldn’t say this project is healthy and we should discuss a move into the Attic. However, I could also imagine that the changes I implemented in the build might encourage some folks to give it another go. I know when I was doing projects with Cocoon as part of my day-job 20 years ago, Cocoon 2.2 sort of completely broke my flow. Not only my inexperience with Maven, but also that of Spring and the versioning scheme where all sorts of cocoon modules had different versions just made me give up at that time and switch to Adobe Flex ;-) Now (15 years later) Maven and Spring have evolved and with the cleanups in the build, it should be a lot simpler to work with Cocoon and with all modules sharing the same version, also this should be a lot simpler. So, I would like to ask you folks: * Should we aim directly for the Attic? * Does anyone want to revive the project? (I’m intentionally not only addressing committers and PMC members, but also people wanting to keep the project alive) Chris
