> Anyway, I am still catching up, so if anyone can help me cut through the > crap and get me up to speed with the current understanding, I would > definitely appreciate it.
Hi berin, hope your vacation was relaxing! Anyway, to answer your question: hot topic atm is still the metadata. Pete and Steve (mainly) have been quite busy writing cool code, however they've seemingly reached a point where it is impossible for them to agree, so Steve's basically has created a fork of containerkit inside the merlin package (along with the assembly package, I think), with the cutting-edge docs on his own site ( http://home.osm.net/doc/assembly/index.html http://home.osm.net/doc/meta/index.html ). I have problems even following what their disagreement is about, as do most; combined with emotions flaring up, it is, well, interesting (to try and give it a non-existent positive 'ring'). I'm not going to try and summarise the exact technical issues as I can't fully see what they are. I'm also not going to summarise the non-technical as I will likely offend people. Some other things are happening with less discussion but quite a bit of value: - Marcus is happily at work doing a lot of cool stuff in many places (like some example code), committed the changes to fortress I think - Paul's managed to get another alpha release of phoenix out the door; he's working on cornerstone now I think - me and Nicola have been at work on the new educational Tweety container (first release is there; docs are coming) (as an aside, Nicola did some build magic to get doc generation using cocoon working for tweety). - Vinay has this really cool wrapper for catalina in avalon-apps - doc generation is split between anakia and cocoon now (Pete's moved over quite a bit of stuff to use jakarta-site; some of the new stuff uses it as well) - The discussion on the license header dropped dead when you left - haven't seem commits to microcontainer in a week or so (Leo Sutic is apparantly going to drop it in favor of merlin) - Axis is too high-traffic for me too. Moving rapidly though. - we've seen little response to the request for user feedback; the response we did get has been in line with expectations (learning curve is the big baddy here; people are scared about backwards compatibility) - there's a new release of the framework jar because some classes were missing from it think that is about it =) cheers! - Leo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
