Content in the enterprise package is a loose collection of things that will be needed in the delivery of a distributed containment solution. There are ongoing discussions (moving slowly). Not a lot of progress - but things have moved further forward than the last time that this came up. Clearly this is not fast enough for some people here - so what I suggest is that we zip up the package and we leave it to the OpenORB team to figure out the appropriate actions in conjunction with the Board. After all – there are questions concerning both content location and license that need to be dealt with.
Cheers, Steve.
Berin Loritsch wrote:
We have not received any further updates or information about the Avalon Enterprise package, and we have come to the June "deadline" for the resolution of the OpenORB licensing issues. Truthfully, it does not look like we are any closer to resolution on those issues.
We have only one developer that has shown real interest in the Enterprise stuff, and there have been no commits to it in a while. That leads me to believe that it one of the following is true:
1) It is dead code of no real use to anyone.
2) The Avalon team doesn't have any real idea of what it is, how to use it, or what problems it solves.
3) It is of real use to people outside of Avalon, but not necessarily inside.
Truthfully, I think the answer is somewhere between 2 and 3. To that end, we have a few options ahead of us:
1) Move it to sandbox.
2) Move it to OpenORB's CVS repository.
3) Try to build a community around it in Incubator.
My guess is that the software really is useful, but without anyone besides Stephen even knowing what is in there it really makes things difficult to help out. I would like to have a resting place for it that really makes sense.
From what I understand, it is not an Application in the Phoenix SAR sense, but rather a set of components. As a result there is no real reason for it to exist in Avalon Apps.
Please consider the three alternatives above and start thinking about what is best for the long term location for Avalon Enterprise. We need to look at that.
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