On 3/5/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Rainer Klute wrote: > > > Am Sonntag, den 05.03.2006, 15:03 +0000 schrieb sebb: > >> Might be worth distinguishing the Mature/Stable projects - e.g. ORO. > >> [We're happily using that in JMeter] > > > > Yes, I second that. "Inactive", "dormant" etc. sound negative while > > "mature" or "stable" leave a good impression. And it is indeed a big > > difference if a project isn't developed any further because it is all a > > pile of junk or because it is complete, optimized and couldn't be > > improved. > > That's one of the problems, we have many different messages: > > Alexandria - Dead. Unreleased. No future. Delete. > BCEL - In need of a bugfix release, design-wise ASM is preferrable. > BSF - Would have been in the inactive category, now active again. > ECS - Tiny user base. No interest in a 2.0. Unfashionable designwise. > JCS - Seems very inactive. Unsure on userbase. Keeps getting forked. > (ehcache, jcache/fkache). > Regexp - Tiny user base. Dead development. > ORO - JDK 1.2 engine of choice. Inactive development - there is no reason > to start development up again currently. > Slide - Too inactive to complete its TLP move. > Turbine - Umbrella of its own. Hard to know what the activity is in each, > but the mailing list isn't that active. > Commons - Active, but definite areas of inactivity. > Taglibs - Inactive, RDC Taglib is about it for activity there. > Velocity - At least DVSL is dead - unsure about tools.
VelocityTools is very much alive. > POI - Seems to be fighting inactivity. > > Finding a label to match the above messages is tricky; "inactive > development" seems to be the only one that fits. > > Hen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
