There is a thread running on right now on the
Slide Dev List about moving Slide to a Top Level
Apache Project (TLP). Currently we are using
Slide as a temporary solution to store some
binary files for our CMS and I agree quite a lot
with the conclusions of Brian... The Slide
project is nearly dead and without nearly any
activities from beginning of this year.
So the best solution would certainly be to open a
new "dav.apache.org" top level project which
would include a Slide 3.0 full refactoring based
on Jackrabbit (or whatever would be the new name
of such a project) and try to gather all the
currently scarce DAV ressources and expertises
into one single project.... Then CalDAV or other
DAV extensions would then also easily fit in such a new TLP...
My 2 cts...
Stéphane
At 17:31 14.12.2005, Brian Moseley wrote:
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
personally, i have no interest in working on
such a thing. i wouldn't tell somebody not to
do it, but i wouldn't help them either.
Can you tell us why?
i found the slide codebase to be extremely
confusing, verging on incomprehensible. i was
unable to make heads or tails of the apis and
had only the vaguest inkling of how i might extend it for caldav.
by contrast, the jcr-server design is relatively
simple and elegant, and the extension points are natural and obvious.
also the slide community didn't seem to have
much momentum back in the spring of 2005. there
was no defined release plan and extremely little
support on the mailing list. the documentation
that existed was sparse and often frustratingly
unintelligible, so when you had questions, you were basically screwed.
things might have changed for the better with
slide, but i'm not optimistic. i vastly prefer
the jackrabbit code and community.
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