Hello all, we, the maintainers of the Piwi Framework are currently discussing if we move to the ASF.http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/piwi/?redir=1 Piwi is an xml/xslt transformation framework in PHP. The reason I write to this list is because Piwi has stolen many things from Cocoon :-) We are speaking of Generators, Pipelines, Transformers, Serializers etc. As you can imagine, Piwi is some kind of PHP implementation of Cocoon. Due to the different nature of PHP we differ on various places from Cocoon. But after all you can say, if you manage to work with Cocoon, you have a good chance to understand Piwi very quickly. Therefore it might make sense to run Piwi as some kind of Cocoon subproject.
Piwis goal is to create web applications quickly (as so many frameworks). One of the problems we currently are facing is community. Piwi has only a small community, users know each one face to face. There are many strong frameworks out there, like the Zend MVC. This might be a problem Zeta Components is facing too (another ASF project). Now I am an ASF committer and member, working on various projects (including the incubator). For me it makes perfect sense to move the project to the incubator and start building up a community. Other projects like Zeta Components and log4php might benefit from it. Anyway, to make this happen we need help. We are only two guys and therefore we are looking for other Apache Committers who are interested in stepping up as initial committers, mentors, champion. Please shout, if you are interested or let me know what you think abou it Cheers,Christian -- http://www.grobmeier.de
