This raises an interesting question:
Before the umbrella permissions for Jakarta were installed, slide had
(and probably still has but without the subversion access file it is
much harder to find out :-( ) 33 (!) committers with write access.
Where did all these people go?
Best regards
Henning
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 08:44 -0400, Darren Hartford wrote:
> Hello all,
> I've been watching Slide for close to two years as a user/integrator for
> document & content management. Here is my two cents as an end-user of
> the project:
>
> *WebDAV is great for document and content management, and Jakarta Slide
> is the only project that fully supports this. The JCR may be nice, but
> it is java-specific and when dealing with document & content management,
> WebDAV is language agnostic and a better approach. There are also a lot
> of tools that recognize and use WebDAV and not JCR (including .NET
> support for WebDAV).
>
> *Mailing List usage is dwindling, but I believe it is not because people
> don't want the project to thrive as much as frustration with the mailing
> list. There have been some key individuals (like Oliver) who have
> definitely helped, but they are few.
>
> *Part of the problem is that Jakarta Slide codebase is extremely
> abstracted and complex to follow -- not that abstract hasn't benefited
> it, but it is difficult for people to get started/understand the
> codebase. As for usage/configuration, examples of full implementations
> don't exist, only snippets that don't necessarily correlate with other
> snippets. Although once someone has digested all the snippets they can
> move forward, someone new would find this daunting.
>
> *Jakarta Slide is dormant - there have been a number of key and very
> important fixes and enhancements made since the 2004 release of slide
> 2.1, but these enhancements and fixes continue to be only within the SCM
> -- no releases have been made with these changes leaving users forced to
> always build from the SCM to get these fixes and features -- new users
> not familiar with Slide or the process may have poor impressions based
> on the 2004 binary versus what is available in the SCM. Also, dormant
> from the standpoint of a number of bugs left in bugzilla.
>
> *Jackrabbit vs Slide - I am looking forward to transistion to
> Jackrabbit, but **the Slide project must maintain visibility until
> Jackrabbit can equally support WebDAV**, this includes the DASL
> <basicsearch> searching component that is a recognized standard. Yes, I
> recognize the JCR does support Xquery, but tools that work with WebDAV
> (i.e. web publishing tools both open source and commercial, document
> management/knowledge management solutions using WebDAV repositories)
> don't support this, and for document & content management the DASL
> <basicsearch> and the rest of WebDAV are a requirement.
>
> In summary, please keep Jakarta Slide visible until the Jackrabbit
> project can replace the WebDAV functionality found in Slide. In
> addition, a transition tool to move Jakarta Slide repositories to
> Jackrabbit would be a huge benefit to those users out there still using
> Slide.
>
> Thank you,
> -D
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