Hi Bertrand, I can't see any improvements to what you have posted, have fun :-)
Robert On Fri, 2020-04-03 at 16:09 +0200, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi, > > I'll be doing an interview about Sling next Monday for > https://feathercast.apache.org/ , with Rich Bowen from the ASF. > > I enclose the planned questions along with my tentative answers. > > If someone has comments or complements they are welcome! > > -Bertrand > > ** feathercast questions *** > > Q: I read the description of your project from the website, but what > does that actually mean? What does your project do? Who would use it? > > Sling is an extremely modular Java Web Framework, which dynamically > selects scripts in various languages and Java Servlets to process > HTTP > requests. Its strong points are its flexibility, as it runs any > scripting language that the Java Virtual Machine supports, its > extreme > modularity, based on the OSGi module system, and its code quality and > stability. It's a very mature project, more than ten years old but > still going strong with new modules and performance and functionality > improvements being worked on all the time by roughly twenty active > committers. > > Our more than 300 Git repositories were a bit scary for Apache Infra > initially, but some of our community members helped create a few > tools > to manage them and that works very well. Big thanks to Apache Infra! > > Q: Tell us some user stories: Give us an example of people who are > using $Project in the real world, and what kinds of problems they are > solving with it. > > Sling powers some major content management products which run some of > the largest websites on the planet. At my employer we are using it in > many different contexts, from smaller on-premises systems to large > cloud-based services. Seeing your code used in such contexts and > service millions > of requests is very gratifying. And helps explain to your family what > it is that you actually do in these long hours in front of your > computer ;-) > > Q: Name origin story? (If weird/interesting name.) > > From the Sling website: > > The name "Sling" was proposed by Roy Fielding who explained it like > this: > > [The name is] Biblical in nature. The story of David: the weapon he > uses to slay the giant Goliath is a sling. > Hence, it's our David's favorite weapon. > [that's David Nuescheler, CTO of Day Software when that company > donated the Sling codebase to Apache] > It is also the simplest device for delivering content very fast ;-) > > Q: Recent releases/development/activity? > > Tons of them! > > A good portion of our more than 300 modules are evolving all the time > with very frequent releases. > > reporter.apache.org outputs more than 1'300 lines for Sling since > 2008, each line listing one or a few releases. > 128 lines in 2019 and already 36 in 2020. We most often have a few > module releases every week. > > Q: Where do you hang out? Where should I come to connect with you? > > Our main channel is the [email protected] mailing list > > Q: Where do I get more info? (This is where you advertise your > website, mailing lists, and other online resources. Also promote > upcoming events, if any.) > > sling.apache.org is the entry point for everything around SLing. > > The yearly adaptTo() conference is where many of us we gather for > in-person technical exchange, the next one is in Berlin at the end of > September, its website is at adapt.to
