Hi, On 9/6/06, David Nuescheler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Personally, I think we have to separate the concerns though, I think Jukka's initial post was going into the direction of making the internals of the core more accessible to more developers.
Correct. In any case, Dave's points are a valuable addition to the feedback I gathered a while ago before the 1.0 release with the issue of streamlining the end-user experience.
While I agree that we need to have a modular design where people can plug-in their extensions at certain defined interfaces and extension points, I would discourage the idea that every user needs to be able to submit patches to the core.
I'm most concerned about the overhead for people going in trying to trace why Jackrabbit is behaving the way it does in some specific issue. This is often the first step of becoming a contributor, and in my opinion it's currently quite a high step to overcome.
In my mind the core should be very compact and very controlled since it has to be extremely stable and scalable, meaning that there is not really a need to have dozens of developers working on a more "smallish" core.
BR, Jukka Zitting -- Yukatan - http://yukatan.fi/ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software craftsmanship, JCR consulting, and Java development
