Steven Noels wrote:
IMHO, eye candy, blocks-I'll-commit-rather-than-shepherd-myself and
featuritis without proper consideration and restraint is what is
"killing Cocoon". Much of this could be tackled by divorcing the core
from the (figuratively speaking) crap, hard and fast. The good stuff
will remain, the not-so-supported stuff will fall apart and fade into
dust.
...
Do one thing, and do it really well.
Focus, and don't look back
to be satisfied with what you done,
but try hard to become better
than you already think you are.
+1000
Focus is everything.
Reinhard and I tried to drive the process of divorcing the blocks that
has active community support from the rest, see
http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/BlockStatusPoll. I suggest that everybody
who didn't like it back then think hard about it again.
/Daniel