Hi Gorkem, We have produced a couple of prototypes to show how Ripple can be used as a platform. We have been able to delegate most of the plugin specific functionality to the plugin itself, that includes a <platform ripple> tag in its plugin.xml. We are definitely interested in supporting Ripple and do not have a preference about it becoming a Cordova sub project, or staying a top level project.
Would love to hear your feedback on this prototype, and any suggestions that you may have on taking this forward. -----Original Message----- From: Gorkem Ercan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 9:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Discuss] The Future of Ripple as a Top Level ASF Project Did this discussion concluded? What was the conclusion? I would like to see Ripple to have a healthy future and if having it as a sub-project on Cordova ensures it, I would like to help with that. I think we can have one or two people from Red Hat assisting on the maintenance of Ripple. This probably is not enough for a top-level project but may be enough to continue as a sub-project. Also, I know there are tools (folks from MSFT, I am looking at you) that use ripple, they may also be ultimately interested on the well being of the project. -- Gorkem On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Brent Lintner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey All, > > Since becoming an incubator project (being donated graciously by > BlackBerry), Ripple has seen positive contributions. > > However, it is also apparent that the community does not seem large > enough to sustain a project like this as a top level project (let > alone an individual PMC). > > Three of the original contributors/creators of Ripple are now fully > involved in a new technology startup in an unrelated field and > therefore we no longer have the resources to support Ripple in ASF. > Also, BlackBerry has given no resources to help since donating Ripple > to the ASF (this might be due to a change in their internal priorities). > > Given this, I would like to propose: > > 1. We find more community members willing to lead committership of the > project, and see how that goes. > > 2. We also consider the eventuality of folding Ripple into another ASF > project, if possible. If so, it would seem Cordova is a candidate for > this, especially given the project being one of Ripple's main focus and > support. > If the community votes for this, we should involve the Cordova > community to gage their interests as well (I've CC'd their mailing list in > this email). > > 3. If the above does not work out, I would then suggest we consider > the most unfortunate (put perhaps prudent) eventuality, which is to "fail" > Ripple as an incubator project. "fail" is this case, not being negative. > > And, if it does fail incubation- what does ASF normally do with the > project? > > Does it get donated back to the original party? Does it get moved to > an open source project outside of ASF (under a different license)? > > Any insight would be appreciated! > > -- > Brent Lintner >
