hi ugo, thanks a lot for the response. i think this is a good explanation, and i agree that we should not contribute things if we are not sure that someone will take care of its maintenance...
regards, david On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Ugo Cei<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 7, 2009, at 8:47 PM, David Nuescheler wrote: > >>> We discussed this internally and currently we do not think the portlet, >>> as it is, >>> would be a good addition to Chemistry. What we will do is use it as a >>> testbed for >>> client library implementation efforts, to which we indent to contribute. >> >> i liked the portlet quite a bit on the plugfest... just for my own >> curiosity >> what was the reasoning behind your decision? > > > Basically I don't think the portlet, while being a good example of a CMIS > client, is relevant to Chemistry in particular, as it stands. At the moment, > it only uses a handful of constant definitions from Chemistry and uses > Abdera for all of its protocol support, which doesn't seem to be the most > likely direction Chemistry is going. So, if we were to contribute the > portlet, it would have to be maintained to follow closely the development of > Chemistry's own client-side code and I cannot promise that we will find the > time for this. If this does not happen, the portlet will soon fall out of > line with the rest of the code and be more of a liability than an asset. > > That said, if you and others feel otherwise, please start a vote to have it > incuded in Chemistry. If people think it would be useful, we would be glad > to donate it. > > In any case, the portlet is freely available at > <https://dev.sourcesense.com/svn/alfresco/cmisdemo/> (we just need to > declare the license before it can be used legally, but it will be done > ASAP). > > Ugo > > -- > Ugo Cei > Sourcesense - making sense of Open Source: http://www.sourcesense.com > > -- David Nuescheler Chief Technology Officer mailto: [email protected] web: http://www.day.com/ http://dev.day.com twitter: @daysoftware
