Great summary, Clement! I'd like to elaborate on some of these points.
On Mar 27, 2009, at 12:16 , Clement Escoffier wrote:
Several topics were addressed such as: - Why choosing Felix instead of Equinox: the license difference is not a killer argument. The main questions are: is Felix enough mature, what about the compliance, support, services .... ?
Our users are telling us they want a full R4.1 implementation (this is one of the things I've been hearing for a long time now), so I think we should make an effort to get to that point.
- What about creating a "Apache bundle repository" containing all bundles made by Apache projects (both apache products and 3rd party libs). It will be something like an Apache OSGi Common project. Issues, License, Versioning, Support? Two issues are opened : creating a room for new bundles (script engines...) and how to create a repository for existing bundles?
It probably makes sense to extend this beyond a plain OBR, since that still won't allow "humans" to browse the repository and really learn about the different components in there. We need something that really helps the user, explaining the bundle, etc.
Providing a all-in-one Felix distribution were the user selects the required "features/capabilities/profiles".
Just a distribution where Felix starts up with all the bundles installed, running stuff like webconsole out of the box, that is a good starting point for people to start developing their own stuff.
- Marcel Offermans is going to present an Ant build system to build OSGi applications
Noel Bergman specifically was very interested in this, but I think it would be good if we provide tooling for various build systems.
as well as propose an Apache project for a provisioning server.
We had very positive feedback from the community at ApacheCon about this, so I'm going to submit a proposal on this to the incubator in a week or two. Feel free to express your interest if you want to participate.
Greetings, Marcel
