Hi, Just a brief note on standards, I may have mentioned it once or twice, but to summarize it here aside from any particular project or case.
As a coincidence, the Oracle speaker who talks about "Why Open Standards and Java EE matter" on occasions like JMaghreb http://www.jmaghreb.io/en/schedule?d=3 is also named Reza;-) A large majority of all Apache projects are related to open standards, whether it's protocol, formats or technologies like Java (EE) and standards like Servlets, JMS and many others. W3C standards are found everywhere, believe it or not, the XML Parser under the hood of Reza's Classifier also uses several of them, mostly around XML and DOM http://validator.w3.org/docs/install_win.html Some are lesser known, e.g. Open Social (implemented by the Shindig project) some very popular like HTML, CSS, etc. Neither of them are "bad", "crap" or "legacy" either, even if it took them years or decades to finalize. HTML 5 isn't even completely done yet. So with very few exceptions all vendors and projects perfectly sticks to HTML 4 (see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/cover.html#minitoc even the 4.0.1 recommendation is from Christmas Eve 1999, before the turn of the century;-D) I met people who contributed to the W3C DDR standard like Head of Open Source at Facebook, James Pearce. He still follows the project on Twitter and maybe with its own (PHP or similar) implementation, giants like Facebook likely use these kinds of standards, too where pure HTML and CSS are not enough. For the same reason we should embrace and respect Open Standards where they exist in this project, too. If unlike HTML or Open Social there is no real move towards a W3C DDR 1.01 or 2 any time soon, then together colaboratively, not just dictated and pushed by a single person we should see, how we can improve it ourselves. Regards, Werner
