We need to have a very clear statement about the status of "Skins" and "Dispatcher" for the upcoming 0.8 release. This statement needs to reflect the vision of developers and where the PMC wants the project to be going.
At the same time we need to be careful to not get people over-excited about new technologies that are not quite ready. Remember the mess that we got into at Apache Incubator. Users and developers need to know that Skins are still usable and still the main mechanism. There is then the Dispatcher work-in-progress that has reached an excellent stage. We certainly want to encourage people to investigate it and help to develop it. It is my understanding that we have not yet made a decision about when Dispatcher will be ready, nor whether it will replace skins or whether both will be usable as plugins. I, for one, am happy to further delay that decision, but we need to come up with some words to define the situation. What do others think? I made a start today with a new document called: "Status of Themes: Skins and Dispatcher" ... http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=398810&view=rev -David
