On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:05:24AM +0100, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: ... > I still disagree. The rules of revolutionaries *MUST* (I repeat *MUST*!!!) > protect the identity of the project more than they protect the freedom of > innovation of the single developers. > > More than anything else, the fact that two different codebases were *released* > with the same name at the same time, pissed many people off (myself included) > and created a lot of problems in the users.
Like? How many users do you see complaining because they have a choice? Personally, I find Tomcat 4's startup time is too slow for Forrest/Cocoon development, so if it wasn't for 3.3.x, I'd be using Resin or Jetty. > The rules for revolutionaries had a bug since they didn't specify what was > going > to happen to the project that was overruled by the revolution. I have a hard time believing that _users_ would be better off if 3.3 development had been forcefully stopped once Catalina was accepted. > We have to fix this in the future. Before 'fixing', it would be good to establish if a forked Tomcat really did hurt the user base. I doubt if either of us have read enough tomcat-user mail to make a clear judgement. --Jeff
