Hi Christian, thanks for your comments, you're definitely right! I agree with both sides: general documentation and integrations.
One example of that is I had personally worked on an integration with Solr [1] but never published the relevant doc to use it. I know Apache Jackrabbit Oak uses DM as an optional L2 cache [2,3], but we never managed to get this to the users via docs / website. So in the end we may try reworking website and docs (not sure who else could help, but I could spend some cycles on it), and maybe that would help. Regards, Tommaso [1] : http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/directmemory/trunk/integrations/solr/src/main/java/org/apache/directmemory/solr/SolrOffHeapCache.java?view=markup [2] : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-891 [3] : http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/jackrabbit/oak/trunk/oak-core/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/document/cache/NodeDocOffHeapCache.java?view=markup 2015-05-22 12:23 GMT+02:00 Christian Grobmeier <[email protected]>: > Hi Tommaso, > > I just looked at the DM website and I think one of the biggest issues with > DM is exactly this: the website, and the docs. > > Lot of pages are empty, some read very short and not informative. That > aside, some questions reader might have are not answered. In example here: > http://directmemory.apache.org/javascript-caching.html > I would suspect there is a security issue with that approach. > > On the other hand, I couldn't get from the website how DM in general works. > > This might lead to the fact the project doesn't get it's deserved > momentum. People simple don't know what it is, how to use it, or what the > difference to other solutions like EHCache is. > > Another idea would be to preprare integrations with existing products. In > example, one could show the benefits of integrating it with Struts, Wicket > or Tapestry. Maybe even provide some kind of connector. This may make users > of these products to DM users. There might be other opportunities. > > However if there is simply nobody who is willing to help in these corners, > then unfortunately there is no other way round than the attic. But I would > think one should pimp the docs first, as they are really not in a good > shape. > > Cheers > > Christian > > > > -- > Christian Grobmeier > [email protected] > > > > On Fri, May 22, 2015, at 12:11, Tommaso Teofili wrote: > > Dear DM fellows, > > Apache DirectMemory is not having much activities in the latest months and > we, the PMC, couldn't push forward further developments to move the project > forward very much, so we are evaluating moving the project to Apache Attic > [1]. > We, the PMC, do not foresee change on our side on our capability of > bringing new energy to the project in the short term so, before taking > actions for the move to Attic, we would like to give a last call for > contributors who want to take the challenge to help us giving Apache > DirectMemory some fresh ideas and contributions and empower our community. > > So if anyone reading here is interested to contribute, please raise your > hands! > > Thanks and regards, > Tommaso > > [1] : http://attic.apache.org/ > > >
