Hi All, Thanks for all that have contributed to the discussion.
So looks like even though there are some use cases for PHP version of Shindig is very limited and unfortunately will not get much contributions from the community. As ASF tradition I will send a separate VOTE thread to find consensus or majority votes to figure out what should we do with the PHP version. But one thing for sure that current status of the PHP state will not be an option. Sometimes we need to make hard decision for the better of community. Thx, - Henry On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Henry Saputra <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Shindig community, > > Currently the Apache Shindig project supports both Java and PHP code > for the server side execution. > However, recent development in PHP have been very limited and in > effort to catch up and getting closer to the OpenSocial specifications > the PHP part have lot of catching up to do. > > On the other hand the Java development efforts have been very active > and closer to OpenSocial specs. > > So, I would like to bring out this discussion to get some feedback > about what is the future of the PHP side of Shindig. Most active > contributors in Java side dont have enough bandwidth to make the > duplicate updates in both PHP and Java parts of the server side code. > > I would like to send a VOTE thread later but would like to get inputs > about how to energize or deal with the PHP part of Apache Shindig. > > As community I think we want Shindig to be the reference > implementation of OpenSocial to help new adopters to embrace and > support the specs, and to do this I think we need to refocus and > regroup the effort to bring back the healthy and active contributions > from community. > So far the PHP side has been lacking development of the new features > and bug fixes that the Java counterpart has enjoyed. This cause a lot > of confusions about how big the difference between the Java and PHP > implementations which ideally should be equal. > > This is also a shout out to many active committers and PMC of Shindig > that still want and have bandwidth to keep contributing to Shindig > development. > > Chime in and let your voice be heard! > > - Henry
