Glen Daniels wrote:
Hi Dennis:
Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
Whether officially led by WSO2 or not, certainly most of the direction
of the project has come from people associated with WSO2 and/or the Sri
Lanka university...
I agree re: most of the committership having historically been from WSO2, but
also IBM. You may not be aware that I'm no longer associated with WSO2 as of
January; these days I'm an independent consultant.
Ah, I didn't realized this had changed. The WSO2 site had still listed
you (and dims) as part of the team as of recently, but no longer does so.
As to Axis2 status, you don't see a problem in pointing people at a
latest Axis2 release which only supports HTTP transport and does not
have any corresponding Rampart release?...
(Note - all the transports are usable with Axis2 1.5, there just hasn't been
an official release. It's not as if Axis2 1.5 "only" supports HTTP.)
I can't even find the transports project on the web site, so it seems to
be asking a bit much of users that they track this down on their own,
build, and use a snapshot version of the code in their projects.
Although of course this is a team effort, I'll step up to take this one since
as release manager I should have at least been pushing harder to get the
transports release happening in parallel. I did ping the Rampart guys, but
everyone has been pretty busy (including me).
I'm going to try and get 1.5.1 out the door ASAP, and will commit to at least
the transports happening along with that.
Sounds great, Glen! But Axis2 really requires compatible Rampart and
probably Sandesha releases since these implement functionally which is
crucial to Axis2's intended usage. The lagging releases of these other
projects have been problems with past Axis2 releases, too. Is there
anything we can do to assure that users get a fully-functioning web
services stack based on Axis2 as part of a release?
Perhaps in the future there should be a single release manager for at
least Axis2, transports, and Rampart, with no official release of Axis2
until the other essential components are also ready for release?
- Dennis
