Also +1 from me. Colm.
On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 8:24 AM, Fabio Martelli <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Francesco, sorry for the late reply. > Flowable sounds really interesting. I agree on the pair of steps you > proposed below. > > +1 to move Apache Syncope in this direction. > > Best regards, > F. > > Il 21/02/2017 20:31, Francesco Chicchiriccò ha scritto: > >> Hi all, >> I have been recently made aware that many of the original developers of >> Activiti (including the team leader Tijs Rademakers) started a new fork, >> Flowable [1]. >> The detailed reasons for forking can be read from [2] but, besides these, >> I think we need to decide whether to stick with Activiti as our predefined >> workflow engine, or if instead it is be the case to move to Flowable. >> >> It seems that one of the main reasons behind the fork is the fact that >> the original team wasn't able to cut out the new 6.0.0 release (which is >> being worked since long time); the new team has recently published 6.0.0 >> [3] and also a maintenance 5.22.0 [4] (which is the version we are >> currently using, but from Activiti). >> >> Flowable 6 looks really interesting, especially for the cleaning and the >> refactoring they made - which also solved the issue raised a while ago in >> [5] about the Activiti Modeler license: it seems that the new Flowable UI >> Modeler is completely AL 2.0 compliant; moreover, they introduced some >> interesting support for multi-tenancy [6] which we can leverage. >> >> I would propose to: >> >> 1. open an issue to make the 2.1 series (e.g. the current master >> branch) work with Flowable 6, replacing Activiti >> 2. open an issue to provide an additional module for the 2.0 series >> (e.g. the current 2_0_X branch), named workflow-flowable, mostly a >> clone of workflow-activiti [7] but with different dependencies; >> workflow-activiti will remain the default choice, but people could >> switch to Flowable on their own deployments if they will >> >> WDYT? >> Regards. >> >> [1] http://www.flowable.org/ >> [2] http://www.flowable.org/blog/2016/10/12/flowable-and-activiti.html >> [3] http://www.flowable.org/blog/2017/02/15/flowable-6.0.0-release.html >> [4] http://www.flowable.org/blog/2016/10/13/flowable-5.22.0-release.html >> [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SYNCOPE-439?focusedCom >> mentId=13829912&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system. >> issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13829912 >> [6] http://forum.flowable.org/t/support-for-additional-multi-ten >> ancy-models/175 >> [7] https://github.com/apache/syncope/tree/2_0_X/core/workflow-activiti >> >> > > -- > Fabio Martelli > https://it.linkedin.com/pub/fabio-martelli/1/974/a44 > http://blog.tirasa.net/author/fabio/index.html > > Tirasa - Open Source Excellence > http://www.tirasa.net/ > > Apache Syncope PMC > http://people.apache.org/~fmartelli/ > > -- Colm O hEigeartaigh Talend Community Coder http://coders.talend.com
