Thank you for your email. I hope you enjoy your non-programming projects. I look forward to that myself.
On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 8:04 PM Andrew Gaul <g...@apache.org> wrote: > 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/ >
