I think we need to wait a bit (half a year, probably?) to decide to move Tiles. Mick has great plans for Tiles :-)
2010/12/10 Greg Reddin <[email protected]>: > If > there's a community of people in Spring-land who would like to > contribute to the project, why don't they contribute here? Good question. Take a look at this issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TILES-404 It is clear that they preferred fixing Tiles in a package built by them instead of patch official Tiles. The issue has been opened 6 days after publishing the package. Why? > It's not a requirement per se. I think the board would start to ask > questions if a few quarters went by and we had no releases or new > committers. They understand that some projects are slower than others > and that's cool. But the word "project" invokes a sense of something > that is continuing to evolve. So if Tiles has ceased evolving - either > because it's stable or because we can't muster up a community of > contributors - then it makes sense to retire it. In fact Tiles is "revolutionizing" not "evolving". In any software revolution there is need to settle a bit. In fact, the sandbox is finished, with a very high test coverage, there is the need only to follow checkstyle rules and to add docs. > My hesitancy on moving away from Apache is that it seems like there is > still room for the project to evolve. Why would that work better > somewhere else than here? Is it because of barriers to entry? Would we > be better off (i.e. have more contributors) if we didn't require ICLAs > or if we could use git or something else? iCLAs are pretty annoying (I am thinking of Struts team, where people need to sign an iCLA only to write docs) but I don't think this is the problem. Currently Tiles status may be split in two: a mature product and a total revolution. The first is well known but development almost halted (just a few fixes). The second needs only to settle, add more features and, at the end, lots of publicity :-) I must admit that I am more a developer than a Slideshare poster, so we (especially I) need to follow Mick example and write examples, articles and presentations. Antonio
