Hi Auke, It’s great to hear how Synapse has been useful to you over the years. I’m sure there are other similar success stories out there. What we need to revive this project is a few more hands. If we can get 2-3 folks who can consistently review and apply patches, keep the build stable and occasionally do a release I think we can make it work. I’ve been the main person maintaining the code over the last couple of years, with Andreas also helping out quite regularly. But with me getting swamped working on my phd thesis, nothing substantial has happened in Synapse lately.
If we can get the commitment of couple of new people, I think Synapse has a chance of making a come back. I, as the current PMC chair can do anything to facilitate that, including getting the new people committership as well as transferring the PMC chairmanship to someone who’s more willing and able. Let us know if you are in a position to help the project out, or if you have any questions. I see a few more volunteers in another thread as well. The immediate next step in terms of coding is to migrate Synapse to latest Axis2 release, and test it out. That alone should be good enough for a release. Thanks, Hiranya > On May 18, 2016, at 11:47 PM, Auke Schrijnen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all! > > We are sad to see the development of Synapse slowly stop. We use Synapse in > our integration platform since 2012 which has proved it’s use and still > perfectly does the job. Over the years we had to apply some patches, > especially to make the servlet integration work with the various mediators > and transport methods. > > When trying to contribute to the Synapse project we ran into a wall. Our lack > of understanding of the Apache rules and uses and all the hurdles to overcome > made that we didn’t contribute that much. It’s really hard compared to > contributing to projects which are using tools like GitHub or Gerrit. > > I’m wondering if the user base of Apache Synapse has shrunk to 1 (just us). > Back in 2012 the development seemed stable and WSO2 was involved in the > project. Did they move away from Apache Synapse? Or are there more > organizations using Synapse? > > What can be done to revive the project and keep it alive? Andreas created a > 1.7.2 release for Axis2, what would it take to create a 2.2.0 release for > Synapse? > > Auke > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > -- Hiranya Jayathilaka Mayhem Lab/RACE Lab; Dept. of Computer Science, UCSB; http://cs.ucsb.edu E-mail: [email protected]; Mobile: +1 (805) 895-7443 Blog: http://techfeast-hiranya.blogspot.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
