> If the people still working on Slide could be brought over You are assuming there *are* still people working on Slide :-). AFAIK, it's a dead project and no one is doing anything of significance to it.
The last bit of news on it was a year ago - http://jakarta.apache.org/slide/news.html -- John Mazz > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert r. Sanders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 2:27 PM > To: jackrabbit-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: webdav server(s) > > As someone who has been monitoring both Jackrabbit and Slide > lists this > idea struck me before. If the people still working on Slide could be > brought over to work with some of the Jackrabbit people it > seems to me > that this would be in the best interests of both communities. > I don't > know how this would be done, or wether a TLP or a subproject > would be a > better alternative. While they aren't the same (and I am not > an expert > on either) it seems obvious that there are some gains to be made by > having a full featured WebDAV server with a JCR backend. > > Stéphane Croisier wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > - -- --- -----=[ scroisier2 at jahia dot com ]=---- --- -- - > > www.jahia.org : The Java Unified Web Platform > > > > -- > Robert r. Sanders > Chief Technologist > iPOV > (334) 821-5412 > www.ipov.net > >
