Niclas Hedhman wrote:
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...
Amen.
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Stefano Mazzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate [William of Ockham]
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