On Friday 21 February 2003 09:40, Jeff Turner wrote: > I see what Steven means with: > >> My main concern is the fact that Lenya does not come only with a > >> community, but also with a code base. That code base is in use already > >> at a selected number of commercial installations (which is good, of > >> course). I hope to be proven wrong, yet I fear the existing codebase > >> is intimately linked with these installations - hence the number of > >> publications in CVS. > > But I don't understand why the usual Apache process wouldn't work. > Preserve the core architecture whenever possible, but if someone wants a > revolution, fine: there's nothing wrong with supporting both a legacy 1.x > and redesigned 2.x release.
FWIW, I'm also slightly in favour of an incubation. What's wrong with a codebase?? Don't like it, throw it away... Maybe even two years down the line. Ring a bell anyone? (Hint: Think Cocoon 1.x) When Stefano proposed Cocoon on Jserv mailing list (was it?), it was practically a one-man-hack, a bunch of ideas and some support from others. Once it was up and running, it create a fair stir of interest, committers joining in and rapidly spat out 1.0 - 1.8, while the flaws were identified and corrected for in the Cocoon 2 effort. If Lenya remains a "company driven" effort under the Apache banner (which seems to be the fear), let incubation fail, the cultivation (working in a germ lab) didn't grow... Niclas
