2009/3/28 Carsten Ziegeler <[email protected]>: > Marcel Offermans wrote: > >> - 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. >> > Yepp - first, I think that we could combine this afford with the > distribution idea (from below). Like a one stop shop for people > interested in OSGi - and get them up to speed in no time. > I'm planning to have a look what the plans for Archiva are and if I can > help out there - i've some vague ideas atm how to add support, but not > concrete enough to write them down :) > >>> 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. >> > We should definitly team up with the ServiceMix people and the Sling > guys :) Both offer already a distributions. I think we should start a > discussion about this soon.
Agreed. I think other apache projects could benefit from such a ready to use container (ActiveMQ, DS, James ...) > >>> 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. > Me, me, me :) > > I could a lot of complaints from various people about our documentation > (or lack of docs); while I guess that this is always a problem which is > not that easily solvable, most of these people were reading the > "embedding felix" documentation which seems to be incomplete (haven't > looked at it yet). No, fixing the docs is one point, but I think even as > interesting here is that out of a sudden many people were interested in > getting Felix running for their projects. So I think this is another > indication that providing a distribution (which might also be easily > embeddable like the Sling stuff we have) is of high interest. > > The other point was that we don't provide the examples as a download. > People are forced to use svn and maven just to get an example running. > So I guess we should think about releasing the examples. > > Carsten > -- > Carsten Ziegeler > [email protected] > -- Cheers, Guillaume Nodet ------------------------ Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ ------------------------ Open Source SOA http://fusesource.com
