Florian, if you are willing to take charge of the graduation related tasks, that sure would help, and we also need someone taking initiatives a give some steering to us. I could spend a few hours a week on a few technical related tasks , so I think we should give graduation a last chance. Any more people with a bit of time left for JSPWiki ? Dirk ?
regards, Harry 2012/1/4 Florian Holeczek <flor...@holeczek.de> > Hi all, > > let me simply copy&paste my former post from the private list here and > then pick up some points from the further discussion on the dev list: > > Our community likes the 2.8 series for its stability and simplicity. > Therefore, maintaining the 2.8 branch at least for a longer while is > something that really makes sense. > Another fact is that the key developers of 3.0 are very busy with other > things, which means that it's quite hard to tell when it will be possible > to release a stable 3.0. > However, the current plan still is to graduate with a 3.0 alpha and retire > 2.8 as soon as possible. Quite obviously this isn't likely to work. > This is why I think it makes sense to proceed in smaller steps (but > proceed!) and so I've been wondering whether there are any objections to > making version 2.8.5 an Apache release. > As far as I can see, most of the required changes (e.g. rewrite of > PageRenamer and IndexPlugin) are part of the 2.8 branch already. Some > things aren't though, e.g. the package name change (is this required?) and > removal of author tags in the source code. > > So, looking at the discussion so far, I'm happy to see that we still do > have a stable community. Also, our mentor is still believing that > graduation can succeed. Therefore, it still makes sense to graduate. > > @Janne: Thinking of your personal situation, I can fully understand your > proposal to move over to GitHub. JSPWiki is your baby, and so you've always > been seen as the natural project leader - of course associated with all of > the corresponding work. From the current point of view, it'd be the least > time-consuming solution to move over to GitHub. But, we've all been putting > so much effort in the incubation process, it'd be a pity if this became > worthless just because the last steps are hard to go. I, for one, am not > thinking of GitHub as an alternative to Apache in every aspect. > > Look at the Apache Roller project. They have similar problems: > * mature project > * small number of committers who have little time > And: They succeed. It's a healthy project which users and developers can > trust in. > > I think it was our mentor who said that it'd be always up to the project > how fast it wants to proceed. So, the recent slowdown is nothing that > should be scaring us. > > Regarding graduation with a 2.8, I think there are mainly organizational, > infrastructure and smaller code maintenance tasks left. > > So, assumed that there are quite some people left willing to finish > graduation, I'd be willing to take charge of the related tasks. > However, I'm no JSPWiki 3.0 architect like Janne or Andrew, so I won't be > able to take parts related to this category at least in the medium term. > > Regards > Florian >
