[X] +1 for termination of WSRP4J
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Ate Douma <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Portals PMC and Portals community members, > > The WSRP4J incubator project has been dormant for several years already. > The last commit dates back almost 2 years ago, the last emails send to the > user/dev mailing list even longer than that. > > An important activity blocker for the Portals committers has been the > unclear situation with the possible IP issue. > That issue has finally been addressed sometime last year and no longer holds > a lock on further progress for the project. > > However, although there is known interest in a proper WSRP implementation > within Apache Portals, especially when integrated with the Jetspeed-2 > Portal, it looks like the WSRP4J project itself lost its momentum, its > active committers and its community. > > The facts are: the current WSRP4J code base is now too outdated: based on > also outdated Pluto 1.x and targeting the WSRP v1.0 spec while the WSRP v2.0 > spec is available already for almost 2 years now. > > If a proper WSRP implementation is wished for, it should now implement the > v2.0 spec and should be easy to integrate with (at least) current Jetspeed-2 > Portal. Trying to revive the WSRP4J project or even just reusing the > outdated code-base for that purpose no longer makes sense. More likely we'll > start writing a new WSRP (v2.0) producer from scratch within the Jetspeed-2 > project itself, and a generic WSRP consumer portlet application at Portals > Applications. > > As the Mentors of the WSRP4J project haven't been active in a long time > either, the Portals PMC as Sponsor of WSRP4J has taken over their > responsibilities. > > Therefore I'm asking the Portals PMC to VOTE for proposing the termination > of the WSRP4J podling to the Incubator PMC. > > This Vote is open for the next 72 hours. > > Please cast your vote: > > [ ] +1 for termination of WSRP4J > [ ] 0 for Don't care > [ ] -1 for No, please keep it alive (do provide solid arguments why) > > With kind regards, > > Ate Douma > > > >
