You seem primarily interested in defending Adobe and attacking open source projects. I find this rather unhelpful and churlish. I was not trying to start a political discussion at all but rather pointing out to the community that a rather promising project has met its demise. I would like to see a standards body for CFML that pushes an evolving language framework forward while still giving individual implementations room to innovate. As a community of developers, we stand the best chance of maintaining and expanding our ranks if a new developer can come in, see a well written language spec and know that if they jump into a project they can deploy it on a CF9 multi-instance cluster at an enterprise site fronted by a BigIP load balancer or they can demo it on a $10 a month Railo VPS.
I have no desire to get into any blame games and I hope that we avoid them all together. I just want to see a promising project revived because I think it will be to the benefit of us all. Judah On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Wil Genovese <[email protected]> wrote: > > Adobe CURRENTLY owns the ColdFusion trademark. This has not always been the > case but the trademark has always been commercially owned. > > about Railo "I can honestly say that I have never seen a more responsive > project. Community suggestions are made on the mailing list, discussed, > dropped in JIRA and implemented all the time. As in weekly." > > This is most likely the problem that Sean was referring to. Being responsive > to the community is one thing, being overly responsive is a problem. Just > because one person asks for something and three more chime in with "me to > +++++++++++1" does not make the request 'community driven'. Sean was saying > Railo needs to wait and see what parts of their flavor of CFML become > popular. This means too many requests are added too quickly without proper > market research. > > Adobe is responding to the community in a mature fashion. Absorbing > multitudes of requests, flushing out those requests, talking to the > community, to major players and companies that use ColdFusion to see if a > request makes sense and would be useful. This method helps ensure that only > the best requests get added into CFML and helps ensure proper and complete > implementation. > > To me Railo seems to be adding to their flavor of CFML as fast as the > children say 'ooh, I want'. This results in a fat bloated language spec (and > fat child ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:335640 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
