On 7/8/13 2:51 PM, Thomas Neidhart wrote: > > Otoh, the single most important factor to attract users and/or > contributors is simply to actively maintain the project and try to be > better than competing libs, imho. There are several examples of > components that were probably great a few years ago, but are now way > behind other libs in terms of features, usability, java language > support, community. > > Personally, I think we should be more open to deprecate components that > are not maintained for years and have better alternatives. Right now, > commons sometimes looks like a graveyard of once cool stuff (with a few > exceptions). Cut it down to well maintained and really used libs, and > probably more people will think that commons is a good place to develop > new stuff / components.
+1 Phil > > Thomas > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
