on 5/27/03 1:44 AM Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > Pier and I already stated a while back that our current implementation > of the FOM is weak and its design poor.
In the past, it was exactly such comments that made Ovidiu abandon this community. Let me state things clearly so that we can clear the sky even on this: Ovidiu, please excuse me for copying you on this, but I would like to let you and everybody else know this: 1) I've always been impressed and very supportive of the work done by Ovidiu, Chris and all the people that made flowscript in Cocoon possible. 2) I think that Ovidiu, by himself, did an *outstanding* job in finding out a way to connect the flowscript layer with the sitemap in a way that kept SoC. The notion of the sendPage*() methods appears very simple and obvious, but only because it's perfect for the job. 3) I stated that the Flowscript was not done in cooperation of the community oversight and that I wanted this to end. This was harsh and stupid. I sincerely regret having said that. It goes along with my apologies to Carsten and my resigning from Cocoon chair to pay off my faults. now, what I disliked about the FOM was that it seemed to me that it was designed to allow maximum access to the cocoon environment, without taking into consideration potential abuse. The FOM I outlined in my previous message goes into that direction: "less is more" and add things incrementally would the need emerge. Since we will need to support the FOM for years to come after we release 2.1, I wanted to avoid at all costs the problem of having to deprecate stuff from the object model. At the end, I would like to apologize with Ovidiu and Chris for my harsh, arrogant and silly behavior on this matter, which somewhat resonated even on my last message. As much as I did with Carsten, I would like to clear the sky and make sure that my presence doesn't remove the fun for anybody or doesn't prevent brilliant and important members of this community from lurking or coming back to work with us, would the itch/time/will/energy emerge again in the future. -- Stefano.
