As a coincidence, Babel was also started by IBM, Adobe and others. http://babel.eclipse.org/babel/ still shows "Adobe Systems Inc" among top 3 translators.
Imagine, someone like Reza simply deleted a word or entire language "he doesn't like"...? Commercial products by IBM, Adobe, Red Hat, Oracle, SAP and dozens of other giant vendors would suddenly look different or no longer work;-O On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Werner Keil <werner.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > Btw. it's not just Data 2.0. > > No clue what "a", "b", "c"... under > https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/devicemap/trunk/data/2.0/reference/ are > supposed to mean, but they're all empty, too. > Anyway, unlike data this won't be missed for reasons mentioned enough, so > if recovered, it would belong to /whiteboard/<something> instead. > > Even before this "scorched earth" tactic, I don't recall ever having seen > the translator between 1.0 and 2.0 files in the repository. > Whether it's 1.0 to 2.0 (XML to JSON) or both ways, there should be an > appropriate tool also as part of DeviceMap, so it can be done in a > sustainable way or even automated by Jenkins (like the ones we started > getting again now;-) > > Eclipse has similar "bots" in the Babel project, so it's not the first > "data driven" OS project I participate in either. > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Werner Keil <werner.k...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Unless the JSON "experiment" was considered no interest, just focus on >> getting it back. >> >> It isn't the first time, Reza destroyed things here without prior vote or >> notice, you should be tired of that, but I assume it would be a waste of >> time asking him not to do so;-| >> >> There was some sort of vote, but it was mostly to rubber-stamp Reza's >> ideas and suggestions. I dont't recall real input other than me suggesting >> to keep attribute names like so many other repository providers do >> regardless of them using XML, JSON or whatever they prefer. >> >> >
