Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
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So, I go up to google and I type "avalon framework", the first link is
http://avalon.apache.org/framework/
well, sounds about right, doesn't it?
I click on it and this redirects me to
http://avalon.apache.org/products/runtime/reference/component/lifecycle/index.html
where it says (I'm not joking!):
"Lifecycle management concerns the process of incarnation, runtime management, and etherialization"
Etherialization?
[At this point, the poor user is left with the quest of deciding what the heck he's looking at and, more important, understanding what happened to that useful PDF tutorial that his friend was talking about]
Well, maybe I'll find the documents in the distro... hmmm, no wait! there is not even a link on where to download the damn thing!
It's gone! help!
So he writes an email to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] (if not directly to me!) asking what happened.
- o -
The current committers of the avalon project have the rights to deal with the present and future of the project, but they have no rights to change the past, especially if so many projects and users depend on it.
It's that simple.
Give us back the framework!
--
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."
- Rich Cook
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