Hi John, I appreciate your messages on this matter but the existing development team is simply tapped out and cannot help at any price. I long ago moved onto non-Java projects (and non-programming projects!) so my expertise is long gone. That said, jclouds is not a special project and its architecture is strongly inspired by Guice. So if you learn more about that you will understand most of the tricky parts. The RestAnnotationProcessor is great when it works but can be frustrating when you need to extend it. I believe the modern equivalent is Feign which might help as well. Happy hacking!
On Fri, May 05, 2023 at 11:29:22AM -0600, John Calcote wrote: > Hello Andrew, > > Since Jclouds is heading to the attic, we must now rely heavily on our own > in-house builds of jclouds for bug fixes and extensions. > > Currently, we have use cases requiring Amazon virtual private clouds with > their associated limited internet access. This means we need to make some > significant changes to the location management code in jclouds. > > Unfortunately, the jclouds code base is rather opaque and, hence, somewhat > hard to approach, from an enhancement perspective, because of the heavy use > of guice dependency injection and custom annotations. > > Please don't misunderstand me - there's nothing wrong (in my mind) with the > way jclouds code is written; it's a fine architecture - as long as you have > some kind of high-level architectural documentation so that new > contributors don't have to spend an unreasonable amount of time studying it > to determine how all the pieces fit together. > > My request is simple: is there some way we can get some training from you > on how to approach the code base so that we can begin to maintain and > extend jclouds properly? > > (Note that, had there been such code/architecture documentation, I myself > would already have contributed heavily to the open source project, but all > of my efforts to "grok the big picture" have led me to making guice-based > hacks as workarounds to issues we've discovered in the past - nothing the > community would have appreciated as a proper contribution - except perhaps > as a stack overflow suggestion - believe me.) > > There is the possibility for a (paid) consulting opportunity for yourself > in this request, the result of which could very well benefit the entire > community, as we would then be able to submit proper enhancements to the > project - even if it's in the attic. > > Thanks, > John Calcote -- Andrew Gaul http://gaul.org/
