On 12/15/05, Daniel Florey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes and no... There is not much visible recent activity on the Slide > project. But nevertheless as many companies are using Slide (JBoss-Portal,
hmmm, JBoss Portal 2.2 doesn't seem to be using Slide: http://www.jboss.com/pdf/jbw_barc/integ_middleware/jboss_portal.pdf cheers stefan > Software AG and others), so there is still some work going on under the > hood. > Unfortunately there is nobody doing the more painful jobs (maintaining the > website, fixing bugs in the svn, preparing releases, applying patches). > If you know someone interested in this, send him/her over to the Slide lists > ;-) > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:jackrabbit-dev-return-4906- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von John Mazzitelli > > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 14. Dezember 2005 21:29 > > An: jackrabbit-dev@incubator.apache.org > > Betreff: RE: webdav server(s) > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > >
