Thanks for taking the time to provide the brief overview. Kind Regards
Cameron 2009/4/23 Raffael Herzog <her...@raffael.ch> > Am Donnerstag, 23. April 2009 14.12:12 schrieb Cameron Braid: > > What are the reasons for apache retiring it ? > > Henri Yandell from the Apache Attic team explained it here: > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hivemind-dev/200903.mbox/%3c31cc37360903051926y28d576b7w70978339abd08...@mail.gmail.com%3e > > Short version: HiveMind was basically stuck in Apache's system, because > there were no active committers anymore who could commit a patch, and > without submitting patches, you can't get promoted to a committer. HiveMind > would have needed to go through the Incubator again. > > > What are the reasons for OPS4J continuing its development ? > > In the above E-Mail, Henri Yandell wrote: "Ideally it's not a fork but > rather a closing down at Apache and a starting up elsewhere with a new > group." -- That's exactly what we are trying to do. > > We think, that OPS4J is the right platform to do that, because of it's > massively lowered barrier (compared to Apache) trough the concept of Open > Participation. Also, with an established platform and community like OPS4J, > we've got a better chance to actually succeed, than by just opening a > project at CodeHaus or SourceForge or similar. And finally, I'm here at > OPS4J since the beginnings, I'm developing and actively using HiveApp, an > extension to HiveMind in my lab, so from my perspective, moving HiveMind to > OPS4J was an obvious choice. :) > > We're going to provide legacy support and maintenance for existing users, > while working on a modernised NextGen HiveMind. > > HTH & Cheers, > Raffi > > -- > The difference between theory and practice is that in theory, there is > no difference, but in practice, there is. > > her...@raffael.ch · Jabber: her...@raffael.ch > PGP Key 0x5FFDB5DB5D1FF5F4 · http://keyserver.pgp.com > > _______________________________________________ > general mailing list > general@lists.ops4j.org > http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/general >
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