> It's some months that we have depot, and things have stalled. I think we stalled coming into Apache (not sure why, for me timing & events -- I have a multi-page internal blog posting bemoaning my misery with Eclipse 3.0 [infra moving to https from http for SVN led me here], and especially Eclipse w/ SVN.) I think I lost momentum w/ Depot internals, and I lost my way from there. IMHO: We have to find a way to solidify design decisions/choices, 'cos it can't be kept in ones head (and a wiki is somewhat free-form).
> Depot is not pushing, it's not getting used. We have to give it another > push. I'll try to give a hand, but I'm currently very active on Forrest. > and Adam is joyfully bound to Gump, so we'll need all the help we can > get :-) Ah Gump, not so joyful some days. :( I am certainly cound to it --- I can't seem to pull away, even when I want to. I've wanted to work on Depot for months, but keep gettign sucked back to Gump. I just spent a week getting Gump moved over to DOM. Something about the old way of doing things just over whelemed me, and I couldn't move on. That said, when I made this change. I felt liberated. I *finally* coded Depot into Gump (a start) and am at the point of completing that. I'll write more to the Gump list. Also, Nick seems to be making good progress w/ AntWorks and Depot. Not as much as he'd like (I think I need to help him w/ my parts after I'm done w/ Gump Depot), but progress. Folks are using it! [Nick is just busy/away for a couple of weeks, or he'd tell you details.] > Simple plan: > > 1 - get the site in a readable state > 2 - use depot in Cocoon for showing what it can be used for > (added parallelly to current system) > 3 - do a nightly release > 4 - publicize it in the usual places (the erverside, blogs, java.net, > javalobby, freshmeat, etc) Simpler plan : "usage". You taught me it, and I agree. As such, I agree --- (2) is key. I think the AntWorks team ought want to help here, and I know Nick was interested before he got yanked away. Perhaps try to work with them on this. > The important thing for me now is point 2, and 1 will be a byproduct, as > I learn to use it. > > Stay ready for my questions :-) Awesome. regards, Adam
