Karl Pauls skrev:
On 8/15/07, Daniel Fagerstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Niclas Hedhman skrev:
On Tuesday 14 August 2007 05:56, Daniel Fagerstrom wrote:
...
Have some trust in community power. If people find it useful there will
be feedback and improvements, and sooner or later it will be good
enough. If people not are interested, it doesn't matter if the quality
is low.
But that is the issue. I haven't seen that much activity around it
that I would trust in the community (as it is now!). Let's assume we
do the release and lots of projects start using our wrappers - I bet
sooner rather then later we have to start creating several wrappers
per project (to match different versions) then we end-up maintaining
40 something artifacts (in many cases making version decisions for
them too).
I understand your concern and can agree about that it might be to early
to release Felix commons now. Several of the bundles I have looked at
could need some more polishing before they are ready for a release.
I think automated snapshot releases of Felix Commons to some Maven
repository would be a reasonable level. It makes it easy to use the
artifacts for other projects (I have no problem with checking out and
build Felix, but it increases the threshold for my co-developers to get
started with OSGi). At the same time is a snapshot release not much of a
commitment from the Felix community, no one expect the snapshot releases
to be forever back compatible or even released.
I just have the feeling that this might be a bit to much for us. We
already have lots of sub-projects and could start a couple more
without even thinking much but we still don't have all the core
features implemented. If we now get spammed with questions, feature
requests, and bug reports regarding wrapped artifacts ...
That might be part of it if Felix Commons is successful. But as Felix is
a volunteer effort, no one has even the slightest right to ask you to do
anything about it if you don't feel like it. But that is normally only a
(small) part of the story for a successful subproject, what the
community also get is that interested people generate patches and
oversight and that the community becomes larger.
/Daniel
