Stephen McConnell wrote:
Stefano:
Thank you for the offer - but could you provide some more details. I think there are several questions that should be addressed - two immediately come to mind:
* Why incubation as opposed to a direct TLP? (after all there are no IP issues and the core developers are already great team) * What is left in Avalon is Merlin is taken out? (both in terms of technology and community)
Before I answer, do I have your permission to quote what you wrote in the comfort of the private PMC list on this matter?
I'll go one better - I'll state my own opinions on the subject here. Please keep in mind that the PMC context is a touch more political that the technical focus of this list so I'll try and separate concerns as they appear to me.
First off - as you know I'm not supportive of the idea of incubating Merlin and if I were to throw on my PMC Member hat I would vote against it. Also, the question of a Merlin TLP is my my opinion something that has already been raised and as a result of a dialog with several people, a collective decision was taken to retract the proposal based on two factors:
(a) the prior decision my this community to move Avalon to a
single platform/product/specification
(b) the promotion of the Excalibur community to its own TLPPerhaps something has not been properly taken into consideration here. Merlin is nothing more than a brand that represents the implementation of an Avalon Component Model. Getting to the point where that Component Model is sufficiently documented and backed by developer tools (Merlin Developer), the containment model (Merlin Runtime), the back-end solutions (Merlin Discovery), etc. is the challenge that the Avalon community is dealing with.
However, Merlin in Incubation has been raised and before I dismiss the proposition out of hand - I would like to understand the fundamentals. I want to understand the rationale, the impact on the Avalon Community, the integrity of the proposal. Is the proposal simply a mechanism to deal with an opinionated individual or is the proposal grounded on some other value proposition that to-date has not been presented? If its about an individual then the proposal is IMO misplaced because the community is much much more important and frankly - decisions based on individuals are not the same as decisions based on technical merit. Does the community of users using Avalon's reference implementation need incubation - no. They are a great community already.
On the other-hand if it's an unstated value proposition then I'm very interested in hearing what that value proposition is. In the meantime I'm putting my money on the Avalon TLP.
Stephen.
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