Sylvain Wallez schrieb: > Carsten Ziegeler wrote: > > >>For the demo portal, I replaced the authentication framework with CoWarp >>which provides imho a much nicer and cleaner way for plugging in your >>authentication mechanism. >> > > > CoWarp is a 35 kb jar file containing 25 classes which seem highly tied > to Cocoon and Avalon. Do you plan to move this code to the Cocoon repo? > > That would be IMHO a good thing to do to avoid the multiplication of > small jars and give a better community oversight on this interesting stuff. > If there is *high* community interest in hosting it at Apache I'm willing to move. In fact, lack of a community was one of the main reasons in creating Cowarp outside of Apache. Look at many of our blocks (incl. the famous authentication block), most of them do not have a community. They're a one man show (or sometimes a two man show). Apache is about communities, and I think as long as the project does not have a real community it should not be at Apache. So, my suggestion is, if there are people interested in it, speak up, lets create a comunity outside at Apache first and then move it.
And I think currently we have way too many blocks and adding another one makes Cocoon even complexer. It seems everyone who has a good idea just adds another block (with no or minimal community). Just adding a jar dependency is much simpler from the complexity point of view. Another advantage is that I can use Maven for building Cowarp - something our build system does not provide. But for me using Maven is another prerequisite :) In the end, yes, I'm willing to move if this creates a community here. Carsten -- Carsten Ziegeler - Open Source Group, S&N AG http://www.s-und-n.de http://www.osoco.org/weblogs/rael/
