... and, in a similar vein, I think we should also retire: * the LDAP security mechanism (because it is superceded by the Shiro security mechanism) * the SQL security mechanism (because it has never been completed and also is superceded by Shiro).
Dan On 21 March 2013 12:34, Dan Haywood <d...@haywood-associates.co.uk> wrote: > All, > Something I've been meaning to raise for a while is whether we should > retire the HTML viewer. (I did mail Kevin about this offline because he > has historically been the most active user of this viewer; I'll let him > respond with his views rather than me summarizing them) . > > My view is that we're only actively developing Scimpi and Wicket, and that > both are more functional than the HTML viewer that is not being developed. > I'm keen that we trim our codebase of stuff that isn't in active > development. I think that we should therefore retire this viewer. > > To generalize the point, it might also make sense to institute some sort > of rule that we retire stuff that hasn't had any updates after a certain > period of time, eg 12 or 18 months. (Perhaps such a rule might require a > formal vote, but probably worth discussing here) > > Anyway, your thoughts welcome. > > Thx > Dan >
