On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But that thread is from Jun 04 - that is very nearly 3 months ago. Since > then, nothing as far as I know.
ok, perhaps just a "hello, I have done some development on my machine, is the myfaces community still willing to provide a JSF 2.0 implementation". That would have been enough, IMO. -Matthias > > Zubin Wadia schrieb: >> >> Simon, >> >> You can do a search for Subject = '[OT] JSF 2.0' on the Dev list. >> >> I believe that discussion, begun by MW turned into a discussion about >> branch creation... then a couple of +1s followed.... and I assume that's >> where the branch was born. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Zubin. >> >> On 8/28/08, *Simon Kitching* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >> I see from the commit list that a new JSF2.0 branch has been created. >> >> I don't remember seeing *any* kind of discussion or even >> announcement about this. While I am happy to see JSF2.0 work going >> on, this kind of approach does not seem to be at all in the >> "community" spirit. IMO, major events like this should be >> discussed beforehand. >> >> One issue, for example, is that the core-1.2 stuff is currently >> half-way-converted from the trinidad plugins to the >> myfaces-builder-plugin. So now it is branched, any changes need to >> be applied in two places. >> >> In addition, a large amount of code has just been committed by >> someone (slessard) who is not a particularly regular contributor >> to myfaces. Where did this code come from? Do we need a code grant >> for it? Note that when code is developed iteratively on the dev >> list then there is no need for a grant. But a sudden code dump is >> different, even when contributed by someone who has signed a CLA. >> >> And with 3 branches to now maintain, we need to discuss whether >> and when we phase out maintenance of the jsf-1.1 branch. Currently >> when users provide patches in jira, they almost always provide a >> patch against only one version and the committer ports it, which >> does increase the load on existing committers. When do we stop >> asking committers to do this when patching bugs? >> >> To repeat, I'm *happy* that jsf2.0 implementation is in progress, >> and appreciate people contributing time to write an >> ASF-2.0-licensed implementation. But it is a standard saying at >> Apache that "community is more important than code", and the >> "community" aspect here seems to have been rather neglected... >> >> Regards, >> Simon >> >> > > -- Matthias Wessendorf Need JSF and Web 2.0? http://code.google.com/p/facesgoodies further stuff: blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf mail: matzew-at-apache-dot-org
