2008/1/26, Jukka Zitting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > On Jan 24, 2008 9:56 PM, Antonio Petrelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kaolin natural place is as an Apache Tiles extension, [...] > > As far as I can tell from the Dimension project statistics on > SourceForge (commits only by you, and no mailing list, forum, or issue > tracker activity) it seems like Kaolin is at the moment your personal > project.
Yes, and no. Dimensions has been started by Aaron Roller, and you can find the original codebase in the CVS (I migrated to SVN because it is better :-) ). I believe that Dimensions simply lacks publicity... > Is there interest in growing an independent Kaolin community, > or should the codebase perhaps just be contributed (with a software > grant) as an add-on component to Apache Tiles? The add-on option will fit best. At this point, does it need to pass through the incubator, or a software grant is enough? > > ===== Community ===== > > > > Kaolin community will be, probably, Apache Tiles community. > > What is the current Kaolin community? The "current" community is hard to say. I heard Aaron Rolller that at MotionBased use a modified version of Dimensions. About the future, I think that WURFL: http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/ and Milyn Tinak: http://milyn.codehaus.org/Tinak can become part of the community, at least for the device recognition part. I modified the wiki page to clarify the community. > > > ==== Known Risks ==== > > > > ===== Orphaned products ===== > > > > There is a risk of making Kaolin an orphaned product, but most > > probably it will follow Apache Tiles steps. Since Tiles is widely > > adopted in Java EE applications, it is difficult that Kaolin will be > > abandoned. > > How does this relate to the fact that the latest Dimensions news and > releases are from year 2005? In the SVN there is (or better was, since I had not time to update it) an ongoing effort to port Dimensions to Tiles 2. Since I was busy in Tiles development itself, Dimensions staled. > Note that for all I know Kaolin could be one of the hidden gems of > open source, but without some more background I'm a bit concerned > about the apparent lack of general interest or community around the > codebase. Yes, I understand it very well :-) IMHO the fact that you are asking so many questions means that the interest is growing :-) Thanks Antonio --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
